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ditma took off from carls hagen at
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pinamunda in 1941
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on becoming airborne the undercarriage
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was jettisoned
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and the aircraft demonstrated an amazing
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rate of climb
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later dietmar was towed to altitude to
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conserve fuel
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when he achieved 623 miles per hour
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easily breaking the existing world speed
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record
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though naturally this was not claimed
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due to wartime security
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during that record-breaking flight honey
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ditma probed the edges of what was later
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to be called
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the sound barrier
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honeydedmar was not the only test pilot
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to fly the 163
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hana reich also test flew one of the
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early models
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from the messerschmitt airfield at
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lehman and she later flew a more
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powerful version
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now named comet which made a great
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impression on her
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and i can only tell you it was
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fascinating it was like
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thundering through the skies sitting on
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a canoe wall
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like being intoxicated by speed it was
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not difficult
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to uh fly it it was only an overwhelming
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impression
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at the end of the airfield of the
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airfield boundary you already reached
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about 500 miles per hour and with
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constant speed
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you were climbing up in one and a half
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to
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two minutes into a height of thirty
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thousand feet
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exhilarating though it undoubtedly was
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after six minutes the comet's rocket
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fuel was exhausted
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and the world's fastest fighter became
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the world's fastest glider
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but the landing was not the only
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difficulty the fuel used by the comet
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consisted of seistorf and t staff
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they were basically methanol alcohol and
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hydrogen peroxide
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which are highly incompatible a few
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drops of one on the other
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produced a violent reaction
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testoff was capable of spontaneous
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combustion when in contact with any
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organic material
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which of course included the pilot
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in view of the nature of the fuel hana
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reich like all comet pilots
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had special protective clothing but
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despite this protection
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some pilots were dissolved alive by the
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murderous fuel
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hannah wright well remembers the dangers
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of test flying the meshes schmidt comets
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i experienced two comrades
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blowing to pieces
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when their plane exploded
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on one of hannah righteous test flights
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as she was towed into the air
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the undercarriage refused to jettison
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i couldn't get rid of it at the same
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time this
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often happens when you have an accident
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that many things at the same time go out
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of work
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so all electrical
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operating instruments where kaput
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also the landing flaps and so many and
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also the
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radio connection with the top pilot and
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with the ground
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so it was difficult to let
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the two pilots know that i wanted to
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come into a
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great height so for 10 minutes he
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circled
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uh in a height of about
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nine uh 900 feet
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um but i stubbornly remained on the rope
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and suddenly and i only watched when
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they
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uh when the ambulance and the stretcher
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and the fire joined all
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it came to receive me and i thought he
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said oh i hope i will come
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quite safely down suddenly the two pilot
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went up
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to 9000 feet
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and i released the cable and i tried
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with
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positive and negative g's to
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get rid of the undercarriage but i felt
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that
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it i didn't succeed but i hope
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to bring this
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test plane to the ground
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safely because such a test
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airplane has many many uh valuable
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instruments
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and but because
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all electrical operating instrument
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didn't work
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also not the landing flaps
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the last side slip i had to come to
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approach the airfield in a greater
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height as normally
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in order to be sure that you will reach
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the place and your head then to lose
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high
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if you caught your sideslip but this
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destroyed the whole
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air flow because it was only wind
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without tail plane it came out of
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control and crashed in the field it was
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completely demolished in my head
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came to an instrument and i suffered
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my nose was i have an artificial nose
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and
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squirrel of fractured highland
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and vertipro broken and many things so
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after having been five months
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hospitalized i was well again
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spurned on by the only burning wish
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to continuous test pilot again
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by 1944 comets had become operational
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single gun camera record and the pilot
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of that comet was himself killed a few
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days later
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when his 163 fighter blew up on takeoff
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for no apparent reason
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soon after that all the operational
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comets were immobilized on their
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airfield at brandis
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due to the bombing of the only factory
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making the special fuel
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on recovering from her the troika
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schlepper
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