[Geek44]

Seems like a perilous test. Bad luck if something popped while pulling out eh? I've read a similar story about a guy who shot down a Me 163 Komet while flying a P-51. He was lucky. He managed to dive on the Komet and get a few shots into it. As he pulled out of his dive, he blacked out. His pal saw the Komet go down and it was caught in a few frames of his gun camera. When he returned to base, it was found that his wings had an extra few degrees of dihedral and the upper surface skin was rippled. Seems he nearly broke his plane.
Anybody else heard of the practice of school kids going down to the local airfields in Germany to help ground staff polish the aircraft with furniture polish to try to milk an extra couple of mph out of the planes?