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

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tis 22 apr 1997 13.37 "Jon Jarrett" <jaj20 at HERMES.CAM.AC.UK> wrote:
>         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...

     Are we accepting the slugs as something more than poetic license?  Can
we justify the concealment of underwing gun-pods on the machine on the
cover of _Secret Treaties_?
     Other than that and we ought to be able to do conversions by reworking
the nose cones and poping a skeleton in the cockpit :)

Cheers,
Carl