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Makes about as much sense as kamikaze pilots wearing them.
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Late in the war, there was a small German "self-sacrifice group" of pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into bridges and other targets on land, although to very little military effect (a few Japanese kamikazes also struck land targets in Russia, with similarly largely ineffective results). Several very devoted Nazis came up with the idea after news of the Japanese kamikaze attacks came out. Even Hitler found the notion troubling, saying that "self-sacrifice [his term for suicide attacks] was not in keeping with the German character." I've read that there were some allied and (other) German pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into enemy targets, but only *after* they were mortally wounded by enemy fire--they did not climb aboard their aircraft intending to kill themselves. Also: Even many of today's Japanese bristle at the suggestion that the kamikaze pilots were fools, although those few kamikaze pilots who changed their minds and survived the war would likely disagree with that "patriotic sentiment" of their countrymen.
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There was even a group of German pilots assigned to crash their fighters into Allied bombers in the bomber stream. Assuming they survived the encounter, they would bail out of their wounded fighter only to do it again. The program was cancelled eventually. Even the Germans thought the price was too high.
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progress
As soon as I chase down some batterys I will put up a pic or 2
It is intresting that another BAKA thread popped up , and how simmilar the approach was , I used junk i had laying around to build it . I even made a little japanise man head out of playdoh , I tried to get a fierce expression of self sacrafice and devotion to the emeror , but it looks like a lump of playdough with eyes , kind of a chubby fellow . I may go try to dig an action figure head from a flea market later today . All that is left is to build the innards ,which really wont take long . The canopy was a PITA , I hand scaled the dam thing which took around 2 hours ( I miss the copy machine from work ) I could just key in the ratio and push a button . And if anyone is intrested I have a computer program that you key in 2 reference measurments, then it derives the correct ratio , and you can just mesure away and it will convert everything for you ( its not free , just extremmly cheap) like 10 dollars the guy who wrote it wants. So you can up/down scale from drawings or whatever If this thing works out well and cancels my "Things with wings" curse I may build an HE 162 as I have the perfect length of BT80 left from this chop . I have yet in my life to not crash any winged airframe I have tried , some due to bad luck , others from my mistakes . |
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So it is finished
This started from the plans posted here some time ago , but I just wantwed to upscale the beast .
The canopy was a royal pain , and i didnt do the greatest job of glueing it in I modified the innards a bit as it will come down in one piece , but still in the traditional dive bombing orentation . the head end of the geman hand gernade is basically a baffle , stuffed with copper wool , since this thing needed nose weight , and i needed to use an ultra thin chute there was no harm . It slide real easly due to my secret mixture of sanding sealer and graphite , and a bit of polish. I did a semi lame job of camoflage just randomly splotting various paint on it , and added some marking so i could see the thing to find a pilot who has a look of fierce determination and loyalty to his emperor , I went to a comic book store and found a dragon ball Z key chain , which I amputated , and sanded off some of his spikey hair , then glued random shiny things in the cockpit |
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more pix
hre are a few more
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The pilot looks like Goku from the Dragon Ball anime!
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Looks great John, nice work!
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It probally is him , some one told me the guy was from Dragon Ball Z , I just made him a bandana and sansed his spikey hair down Ill take a pic of my playdough attempt , it sort of looked like a fat greek guy |
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Ramming aircraft had been considered by a number of combatants. The Soviets trained their pilots (especially I-16 pilots) to run their reinforced props through an enemy's tail. Luftwaffe Rammkommando "ELBE" flew an 180 aircraft mission in April 1945 and downed 8 of 15 aircraft attacked. But then, this was the regime which gave 12 year olds a Panzerfaust to defend Berlin.
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