Comments by "FiveCentsPlease" (@FiveCentsPlease) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. + Ken Downing There is a project to construct one or more flying IAR-80 replicas. It looks like they might still be information gathering and planning/funding.
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  2. + davidca96 By 1947 the newly formed US Air Force had changed fighter naming from "P" to "F", thus Mustangs became the F-51.
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  3. + Doug Hansen Hundreds of them were lost when they were cheap and pilots with little experience could get them. The accident reports are depressing. For example, the fatal crash with a new P-51 owner with his family crammed into the void behind the seat trying to climb over a thunderstorm--without oxygen support. The loss rate continued into the 1980s when new owners could get proper checkout and training on these high-powered aircraft.
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  4. +@gredchijoff9959 None. Only partial remains of the Me-209 prototype survive in Poland.
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  5.  @Crashed131963  The Me-309 was an unsuccessful search to replace the Bf-109, not a test platform for the Me-262. Though one of the early prototype Me-262s did have a piston engine in the nose.
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  6. + okisgodhi At the end of WW2 jet engines were not reliable enough for service and did not have the range. There was a huge inventory of piston aircraft and they were used well into the Korean War or sold to export countries for their services.
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  7. +@apfelsnutz The fuselage of the Me-109V1 survives at the Muzeum Lotnictwa I Astronautyki, Krakow, Poland.
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  8. +@marktweet7379 No Me-309 survives, so you saw something else. Only partial remains of the Me-209 variant survive in Poland.
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  9.  @istinaanitsi3342  The Yak-15 was designed from the Yak-3 platform and fitted with Soviet copies of the Jumo 004, re-branded as the Klimov RD-10 turbine. The Russian Mig-9 fighter was a new platform that used Soviet copies of the BMW 003 turbine, re-branded as the Klimov RD-20.
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  10.  @istinaanitsi3342  The Soviets were behind on jet development at the end of WW2. Stalin wanted to fast-track a jet platform, so he ordered the German engines copied and Yakovlev moved quickly to adapt the Yak-3 to the jet engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-os0KdUkDN0&t=277s
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  11.  @istinaanitsi3342  Give your reasons why you believe the Me-309 was the source of the Yak-15.
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