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Reply To: Visit to Fleet Air Arm Museum 22 March 2012

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Orion
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Th early me262 prototypes were tail draggers,test pilots found that to get the tail up a dose of brake was needed. I can see where the catapult would work from a carrier, but what about on land? I would think the same trick would apply,,,

I don’t think there was any time that an Attacker was catapulted on land. On test at Farnborough perhaps, but not operationally.

The early Me262 was a tail-dragger but also the CoG was in the wrong place making the aeroplane tail heavy. Hence the use of brakes to lift the tail. The solution was to sweep back the wings and provide a tricycle undercarriage.

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