Messerschmitt Me262A Schwalbe (Yellow Series)

This book is the first detailed summary of every known and identified Me Some of the aircraft constructed have been identified. The book lists sequentially each aircraft by Werknummer Works Number from prototypes and test aircraft through to all variants of operational machines, together with known pilots, assigned units and recorded flights. Where known the fate of each individual aircraft is given and where possible, a photo of each aircraft will accompany its entry in the Werknummer log.

Me , Volume One By J. Richard Smith, Eddie J. Merrick, Mike Norton, Stephen Ransom, Jurgen Rosenstock and Gunter Sengfelder Hardcover, pages The most detailed study ever published on the Me , created after over 30 years of detailed research. Each volume includes vintage photos, detailed diagrams, full-color illustrations and fold-outs of the airplane and its systems. Me , Volume Two By J.

Richard Smith and Eddie J. Creek Hardcover, pages Examines the impact the Me made on the course of the European air war in This volume includes detailed descriptions of the of the various weapons designed to be carried on the airplane. Contains many precise technical scale drawings and never-before seen photographs. Me , Volume Three By J. Creek, Tom Tullis and Arthur L. Bentley Hardcover, pages More incredible detail in the series of books on the world's first operational jet aircraft. The resulting steepening of the dive would lead to even higher speeds and the airframe would disintegrate from excessive negative g loads.

The HG series of Me derivatives was believed [ by whom? The Soviets ran similar tests. This claim relies solely on Mutke's memory of the incident, which recalls effects other Me pilots observed below the speed of sound at high indicated airspeed, but with no altitude reading required to determine the speed. The pitot tube used to measure airspeed in aircraft can give falsely elevated readings as the pressure builds up inside the tube at high speeds. The Me wing had only a slight sweep, incorporated for trim center of gravity reasons and likely would have suffered structural failure due to divergence at high transonic speeds.

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About 1, Me s were produced, but a maximum of were operational at any one time. According to sources they destroyed from to enemy planes, with the Allies destroying about Me s in the air. Through the end of February to the end of March , approximately 60 Me s were destroyed in attacks on Obertraubling and 30 at Leipheim ; [82] the Neuburg jet plant itself was bombed on 19 March Large, heavily protected underground factories were constructed - as with the partly-buried Weingut I complex for Jumo jet engine production - to take up production of the Me , safe from bomb attacks, but the war ended before they could be completed.

Wings were produced in Germany's oldest motorway tunnel at Engelberg , to the west of Stuttgart. Many Me s were found in readily repairable condition and were confiscated. The Soviets, British and Americans wished to evaluate the technology, particularly the engines. During testing, the Me was found to be faster than the British Gloster Meteor fighter jet, and had better visibility to the sides and rear mostly due to the canopy frames and the discoloration caused by the plastics used in the Meteor's construction , and was a superior gun platform to the Meteor F.

The Me appeared to have a higher critical Mach number than any American fighter. Between May and August , the aircraft completed eight flights, lasting four hours 40 minutes. Testing was discontinued after four engine changes were required during the course of the tests, culminating in two single-engine landings. The F, designed by engineer Edgar Schmued , used a slat design based on the Me 's. From August , a total of nine Ss and three two-seater CSs were completed and test flown. They were introduced in and in were supplied to the 5th Fighter Squadron, becoming the first jet fighters to serve in the Czechoslovak Air Force.

These were kept flying until , [4] when they were replaced in service by Soviet jet fighters. Both versions are on display at the Prague Aviation museum in Kbely. In January , the American Me Project , based in Everett, Washington , completed flight testing to allow the delivery of partially updated spec reproductions of several versions of the Me including at least two B-1c two-seater variants, one A-1c single seater and two "convertibles" that could be switched between the A-1c and B-1c configurations.

All are powered by General Electric CJ engines and feature additional safety features, such as upgraded brakes and strengthened landing gear. The "c" suffix refers to the new CJ powerplant and has been informally assigned with the approval of the Messerschmitt Foundation in Germany [91] the Werknummer of the reproductions picked up where the last wartime produced Me left off — a continuous airframe serial number run with a near year production break.

Flight testing of the first newly manufactured Me A-1c single-seat variant Werknummer was completed in August The first of these machines Werknummer went to a private owner in the southwestern United States, while the second Werknummer was delivered to the Messerschmitt Foundation at Manching, Germany. This aircraft conducted a private test flight in late April , and made its public debut in May at the ILA The new Me flew during the public flight demonstrations.

The first Me reproduction a two-seater took off for the first time in December and the second one in August Data from Quest for Performance [23] Original Messerschmitt documents []. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. World's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. The one above me went into a steep right-hand turn, his pale blue underside standing out against the purple sky.

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Another banked right in front of the Me's nose. Violent jolt as I flew through his airscrew eddies. Maybe a wing's length away. That one in the gentle left-hand curve! I was coming from underneath, eye glued to the sight pull her tighter! A throbbing in the wings as my cannon pounded briefly. Way behind his tail. I would never be able to shoot one down like this. They were like a sack of fleas.

A prick of doubt: Could one in fact, successfully attack a group of erratically banking fighters with the Me ?

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