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Re: Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?
To describe the He 162 as "difficult" is understating the case. It was difficult (though not exceptionally so) to fly in normal flight. In extreme combat manoeuvres it was a killer. It suffered from a problem, unknown at the time of its design, called inertia coupling, caused by having large masses offset from the aircraft's axes of manoeuvre (in this case the engione). This problem was first analysed in the UK after the death of a test pilot in the UK, in a classic report by W.G. Pinsker of the RAE. It was also analysed in the US after the death of NAA test pilot George Welch in an early F-100.
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