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After Willy Messerschmitt's death in 1978, the former Me 262 pilot Hans Guido Mutke claimed to have exceeded Mach 1 on 9 April 1945 in a Me 262 in a "straight-down" 90° dive. This claim relies solely on Mutke's memory of the incident, which recalls effects other Me 262 pilots observed below the speed of sound at high indicated airspeed, but ...
Me 262 V3. Messerschmitt began work on a single-seat jet-powered fighter before the start of World War II. The initial design was known as Projekt 1070 (P.1070). A twin-engined straight-wing design, the P.1070 was canceled in favor of the similar P.65. [1]
Walter Schuck (30 July 1920 – 27 March 2015) was a German military aviator who served in the Luftwaffe from 1937 until the end of World War II.As a fighter ace, he claimed 206 enemy aircraft shot down in over 500 combat missions, eight of which while flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. [1]
Messerschmitt Me 262: Germany: July 1942: Combat: June 1944: 1,433: First operational jet fighter as fighter and fighter-bomber, with night-fighter, bomber, and reconnaissance versions trialled. [26] Messerschmitt Me 328: Germany: 1944 (early) Prototype: n/a: 9: Cancelled pulsejet fighter/bomber. [27] Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250: USSR: March 1945 ...
Nowotny achieved 255 of these victories on the Eastern Front and three while flying one of the first jet fighters, the Messerschmitt Me 262, in the Defense of the Reich. He scored most of his victories in the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, and approximately 50 in the Messerschmitt Bf 109. [1]
Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe "White 1" – Reproduction [35] Morane-Saulnier MS.500 Criquet – pained as Fi 156 [36] [37] ... 1936 Thomas Spl. 1937 Offy 270 ci.
Category for the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet aircraft Pages in category "Messerschmitt Me 262" The following 13 pages are in this category ...
The unit was equipped with Me 262 jet fighters, and tasked with intercepting Mosquito bomber aircraft of No. 8 Group RAF in the Berlin area. The Me 262 were not fitted with radar and used the aid of ground control and the searchlight defences, partially a Wilde Sau form of night combat. Welter had claimed three aerial victories while flying the ...