By: Papa Lima - 21st November 2004 at 17:55
Well said, Steve, my guess is the same as yours, please be merciful Anna!
(if I don’t get the answer tonight (Swedish time) that’ll be another sleepless night!)
By: srpatterson - 21st November 2004 at 17:46
I’m going to side with Papa L on this one, google is no help and my library pales in comparison to others on this board.
My guess is a German pilot during the war, probably either testing a prototype or killed on operations in a ME262. Given the fact that the Americans and British didn’t fly a jet until 3 years after the Germans this seems a logical guess.
And Anna, if you don’t tell us soon we’ll have to take away your smiley faces for a week. 😉 😉 😉 🙁 🙁 :diablo: :p 😡 😮 😎
By: macky42 - 21st November 2004 at 17:43
Surprising how hard this one is. Never thought about it before, but I’d really like to know now! 🙂
By: Mark9 - 21st November 2004 at 17:05
Come on, Anna, is it a trick question?
No! Not at all, I will tell the answer later, Its just I thought someone might of known, being the wealth of knowledge here 😀 😀 I buy books to read, not to gather DUST 😉 :diablo: Anna 😀 😀 😀
By: von Perthes - 21st November 2004 at 14:23
Rob – what year are you up to with the FlyPasts?
Geoff.
By: Papa Lima - 21st November 2004 at 13:42
Come on, Anna, is it a trick question?
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 21st November 2004 at 11:01
(except Putnam books, which are excellent).
Fokker, the exception.
By: Papa Lima - 21st November 2004 at 10:17
I give up, Anna, having searched all my books and googled half the night!
By: Mark9 - 21st November 2004 at 10:15
It’s rather a morbid fascination, Anna. You’re working on the assumption that what’s written in your book is correct – and as James always tells us, plenty of books are wrong (except Putnam books, which are excellent).
Its not a fasination :rolleyes: I just asked the question, to which someone like yourself who has lots of Putnams, should be able to answer 😉 But still no answer from Mr Robbo, do you read the books or do they Just live on a shelf? :p Anna 😀 😀
By: Mark9 - 20th November 2004 at 23:15
Strange :rolleyes: these guys, should be able answer this.
Mark Allan
Its a hard one, :rolleyes: But we shall see :rolleyes: All the books and NO answers 😉 :rolleyes: Anna :diablo: :diablo:
By: Saab J-29 - 20th November 2004 at 23:04
Strange :rolleyes: these guys, should be able answer this.
Mark Allan
By: Mark9 - 20th November 2004 at 22:09
Is this some sort of quiz?
There was a Russian who crashed on March 27th, 1943 flying a Bereznyak-Isayev rocket plane. But that was no jet.
No Quiz 😀 Just going back to the Origins, Test Pilots, in the begining 😉 😉 Anna 😉 😉
By: Distiller - 20th November 2004 at 22:06
Is this some sort of quiz?
There was a Russian who crashed on March 27th, 1943 flying a Bereznyak-Isayev rocket plane. But that was no jet.
By: Mark9 - 20th November 2004 at 21:57
My guess is Wilhelm Ostertag, April 18th, 1943, Me262V-2.
(In search of that answer I came across another factoid: The first use of an ejection seat – January 13th, 1943, He280V-1).
Wrong 😉 😉 Sorry 😉 Anna 🙁 Lets see who really,Knows 😉 😉
By: Distiller - 20th November 2004 at 21:53
My guess is Wilhelm Ostertag, April 18th, 1943, Me262V-2.
(In search of that answer I came across another factoid: The first use of an ejection seat – January 13th, 1943, He280V-1).
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