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It was a glider with a rocket, essentially. Apparently a lot of the test pilots liked it before they, well, died a death horrible enough that I don’t even feel that great wishing it on a nazi.
Edit: also it may have been the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, one of the test pilots maxed out the speedo and reported a noise that he thought was the rocket exploding.
I’d heard the exact opposite about it being good to fly, specifically that it was incredibly hard to turn
It was a glider with a rocket, essentially. Apparently a lot of the test pilots liked it before they, well, died a death horrible enough that I don’t even feel that great wishing it on a nazi.
Edit: also it may have been the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, one of the test pilots maxed out the speedo and reported a noise that he thought was the rocket exploding.
If you know where you’re going, you don’t have to turn!