BOC: Me.262s (Was - Re: Buck Benefit / BOC fanatic checklist)

[Jon Jarrett]

On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> On mån 21 apr 1997 17.57 "THE CIDER KING" <PN013 at LAMP.AC.UK> wrote:
> > About the ME262 model, well I bought an ME262 specifically for that
> > purpose!
>
>     Are there any salient differences between "BOC's ME262" and the various
> standard ME262 models?  Perhaps this has been discussed before ... it might
> make a good addition to the FAQ if there's anything to note.  (If such
> isn't already there :)

        That sounds like a good cue for me to announce my return... I
think last time this came up Theo and I satisfied ourselves (while
other fell asleep round us) that the machine flown by Captain von Ondine
was clearly a top-secret conversion that never made it onto the Luftwaffe
records - this of course being _much_ more likely than the other
possibility, that BOC didn't give a damn about niggling pedantic
accuracy...
        So, it's unusual in that: (a) it carries rockets in the nosecone
(24 R4M 55mm, as tested on one or two, but not used in this form because
of the problems the flash gave the pilot - fired from underwing they were
lethal), in place of the normal guns, but (b) it clearly still carries
guns (in underwing packs?) because Eric clearly refers to `gray-silver
slugs'; this is also odd, because normal 262s carried cannon, which of
course fire shells not slugs, so the 262 Ondine would seem to be the only
one ever to carry machine-guns, and of course (c) it's got a socking great
blue `harpe' drawn on it and is flown by Death. I think that covers
everything...
              Jazza
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