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Re: Me 410: "on a knife's edge"
I don't mean to say that the Me 210/410 series was the best there was, but sometimes I do get the feeling that it has received an unfair amount of bad press.
Sure, the early short-fuselage Me 210s were bad, but in my view the Germans managed to get a good front-line aircraft out of it in the latter-series long-fuselage Me 210s. Didn't the Hungarians love their verion with DB 605s?
Furthermore, the Me 410 was a quite versatile aircraft, with a tremendous range of weapons options.
Of course its flight characteristics did leave soemthing to be desired and as I understand Eric Brown he felt that the margins of safety were quite narrow in this type. Didn't he also state that it was about the last aircraft he wished to return to base in with one engine out, or was that the He 219?
Most importantly though, it is a very cool and good-looking aircraft! It looks right!
Regards,
Kjetil
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