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Originally Posted by svandamme
wasn't a question of luring em in a slow fight, they shot em down on short final to landing. And they were sitting ducks at that point because they were
1 unable to spool up the jet engines quick enough to accelerate and begin fighting
2 were usually on fumes by the time they landed.
The allies at that point were so numerous that quite often they would circle near airfields waiting for ME262's to come back from bomber intercepts. At some point the germans even installed a flak lane ... Ack Ack along the landing approach to cover the inbound 262's
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The Germans also had dedicated FW-190s stationed at the airfields to fly cover during landing operations. JV-44. Very distinct "please don't shoot me down, AAA" coloring.
