Years ago, when I was a sprogg Harrier pilot, we deployed during a NATO exercise to Diepholz on the North German Plain. Deipholz was a Luftwaffe recruit training base with a 4000 ft runway and it was commanded by Oberst Otto Kraft. Colonel Kraft used to enjoy coming into the bar of an evening and having a drink with us. It quickly transpired that, during the war, he had flown Me110 nightfighters and the Me262.
One of the "mates" said to him:
" Colonel, I believe the Me262 was a bit of a handful in the circuit, is that true?"
Colonel Kraft:
"Ze only time ze 262 vos a problem in ze circuit vos venn zere vos a Typhoon downvint".
The boss took him for a trip in the T4 and they poked off to the Moehne See. Running down the lake with the HUD bombfall line through the dam, the colonel was heard to mutter:
" Zat iss not zo clever, Herr Ving Commander. It hass been done before, you know".