09.05.2009, 04:23
FYI...
Eric Brown, who was doing test flying of enemy aircraft, came across one of these whilst wandering around Germany just after the war had ended. In the Russian sector (the Russians were still friendly to the British in 1945) he found it in a hangar having followed a rumour from another airfield.
After negotiating with the Russian commissar supervising the facility, the man shrugged said Brown could fly the plane as long as he stayed in sight of the field - the airframe was due to be scrapped anyway - and the test flight took place. He was of the opinion that it wasn't the best handling aeroplane ever but that it had no notable vices.
Eric Brown, who was doing test flying of enemy aircraft, came across one of these whilst wandering around Germany just after the war had ended. In the Russian sector (the Russians were still friendly to the British in 1945) he found it in a hangar having followed a rumour from another airfield.
After negotiating with the Russian commissar supervising the facility, the man shrugged said Brown could fly the plane as long as he stayed in sight of the field - the airframe was due to be scrapped anyway - and the test flight took place. He was of the opinion that it wasn't the best handling aeroplane ever but that it had no notable vices.