QuickCheck: Was a jet fighter originally designed to be flown by teenagers?

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WHEN talk of national service returned to public conversation, there was a measure of excitement that teenagers and young adults would be doing military-derived activities.

However, it has been claimed over the years that the Germans once came up with a state-of-the-art jet fighter with the aim that it could be flown by 18-year-old youths with a minimum of training.The aircraft in question is the Heinkel 162 Volksjager - which means “people's fighter” - and the reason why 18-year-old Hitler Youth members were being considered as pilots for what was then the very latest in aviation technology was sheer desperation.

Indeed, the Museum adds that “National Socialist ideology profoundly influenced another design criteria. The jet had to be so simple to operate that teenage Hitler Youth pilots could fly into combat after rudimentary training.” With that said, did teenagers get into the cockpits of these emergency, lightweight fighters to stem the tide and stop the oncoming Allied armies? The answer is no, and the Air and Space Museum explains why.

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