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Old 30th August 2016, 19:06
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Re: 7th and 14th July 1944, 15th USAAF fighters claims vs. Me 410

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Originally Posted by Nick Beale View Post
Depends on the role it was playing … long-range night intruder, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft?
As I understand it, the bigger problem was not the tasks which the Me 410 performed, but rather the fact that it inherited many of the inferior handling qualities of the Me 210. The Me 410 also had an aerodynamically unsound engine installation, which is why the proposed Me 410 C would have adopted the DB 603 with an annular radiator, which was used on the far more successful He 219.

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