The fact that they were both colourless liquids meant that handling accidents were common, as in the case of one unfortunate ground crewman who inadvertently poured a container of T-Stoff into another containing a small quantity of C-Stoff. As author William Green recounts: “Before he realized the magnitude of his mistake his remains had been spread thinly over the entire test shed.”
Tiiiiny nitpick: overland camo is, well, land colored. Marine camo is ocean colored. Basically, whatever color would be below the hardware when an enemy viewed it is the theme you want. For instance, ocean camo overland? Ain't camouflage, now is it?
It was a glider with a rocket, essentially. Apparently a lot of the test pilots liked it before they, well, died a death horrible enough that I don't even feel that great wishing it on a nazi.
Edit: also it may have been the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, one of the test pilots maxed out the speedo and reported a noise that he thought was the rocket exploding.
Oh yeah, this is a rocket plane. You only get a few minutes of bat-out-of-hell fwooshing before the fuel runs out and you engage in a controlled descent looking for some place to crashnot crash ditch safely, and then walk away (hopefully not in enemy-controlled territory). The prop assisted in providing a bit more range on descent.
It it weren't in the middle of a war, this might be a ballsy sport.
If the Luftwaffe flight sims informed, its not the tendency of the plane to explode due to mismanaged engines that'll kill you, but the super-finicky landing skids on terrain, rather than wheels on a landing strip.
But then, going up against a sea of B-17s in a Bf-109 was pretty suicidal anyway, so Luftwaffe pilots were willing to try anything, including rocket planes.