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The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, is a fighter aircraft and fighter-bomber that was designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt.
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]
He claimed eight of these victories over the Western Allies while flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Born in Mühlheim am Main in the German Empire, Weissenberger, who had been a glider pilot in his youth, volunteered for service in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany in 1936.
Reproduction Messerschmitt Me 262 W.Nr.501244 produced by the project in 2006 Reproduction Messerschmitt Me 262 W.Nr.501244 operated as D-IMTT at the Berlin Air Show 2016. The Me 262 Project is a company formed to build flyable reproductions of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter. The project was started by the ...
In a series of carefully controlled flight tests conducted in World War II by Messerschmitt, it was established that the Me 262 went out of control in a dive at Mach 0.86, and that higher Mach numbers would lead to a nose-down trim that could not be counter-acted by the pilot by use of the control column. The resulting steepening of the dive ...
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]
A captured Messerschmitt Me 262, the most numerous jet fighter of World War II. World War II was the first war in which jet aircraft participated in combat with examples being used on both sides of the conflict during the latter stages of the war.
From 2 November 1936 to 15 August 1937, Ehrler served with the 3./Flakabteilung 88 ... He was reassigned to a Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter squadron in Germany.