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Old 16th Oct 2009, 09:57
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Kerosene Kraut
 
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Those leading edges were certainly not "razor sharp". You could not use them like a knife's blade or something. The metal-propblade comparison above seems quite right. The wing stubs are still impressively small. Especially on the stretched nuke-bomber version we had back then. And blown flaps she had.

BTW is NASA still flying it's used german F-104G's?
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