Me 262 Training Film 1944

Silent film which shows Nazi jet technology...

Silent film which shows Nazi jet technology, etc.

"This is a glimpse into the story of Hitler's secret weapons., the guided missiles and the revolutionary aircraft which astonished the world even while the death rattle was in the Nazi throat.

The complete story is yet to be written; but many of the salient facts are here in a motion picture which has been compiled, for the most part, from some 12 million feet of captured German film.

It is a picture of uncanny, devastating machines but also of enemy foresight and perseverance. It is a picture of an investment in aeronautical research and development.

From 1933 to 1939 the German government spend the equivalent of approximately $500,000,000 for scientific facilities and payrolls in the aeronautical program; in the war years several times that amount.

One thing the investment bought was Peenemünde, whence came the V-2, the most revolutionary military vehicle that has been developed to date."

Messerschmitt Me 163 and 262

Me 163 flow by test pilots Hanna Reitsch & Heini Dittmar

Highlights - Eighth Air Force Fighter Combat vs Me 163 and Me 262 (1944)

The Messerschmitt 262 - Documentary on the German Messerschmitt Jet Fighter 

Messerschmitt Me262 Schwalbe/Sturmvogel. Part 4. German Dzib -Compiler-

Two-seat ME 262S/End of the Line

The high performance of the Me-262 made a tandem-seat operational conversion trainer version very desireable, and such an aircraft, the "Me-262B-1a", was introduced in the summer of 1944. The trainer of course had dual controls, with the second seat replacing one of the fuel tanks. Range was extended by fitting two 300 liter (80 US gallon) external tanks under the forward fuselage. About fifteen were built.

The trainer led to the impressive "Me-262B-1a/U1" night fighter, featuring "FuG-218 Neptun" long-wavelength radar and "Naxos" centimetric-radar-homing gear, operated by the back-seater. Armament was two MK-108 30 millimeter cannon and two MG-151 20 millimeter cannon. The type was put through trials in October 1944 by the well-known Hajo Hermann. The Neptun "antler" antennas slowed the aircraft down, but it was still faster than the hated British Mosquito, which preyed on German night-fighters.

Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe / Sturmvogel. Part 3. Operational history. Luis German Dzib -Compiler-

Major Walter Novotny

On April 1944, Erprobungskommando 262 was formed at Lechfeld just south of Augsburg, as a test unit (Jäger Erprobungskommando Thierfelder, commanded by Hauptmann Werner Thierfelder) ^{(16) (17)} to introduce the 262 into service and train a corps of pilots to fly it. On 26 July 1944, Leutnant Alfred Schreiber with the 262 A-1a W.Nr. 130 017 damaged a Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft of No. 540 Squadron RAF PR Squadron, which was allegedly lost in a crash upon landing at an air base in Italy. ⁽¹⁸⁾ Other sources state the aircraft was damaged during evasive manoeuvres and escaped. ⁽¹⁹⁾ It was the first victory for a turbojet fighter aircraft in aviation history. ⁽²⁰⁾ Major Walter Nowotny was assigned as commander after the death of Thierfelder in July 1944, and the unit redesignated Kommando Nowotny. Essentially a trials and development unit, it holds the distinction of having mounted the world's first jet fighter operations. Trials continued slowly, with initial operational missions against the Allies in August 1944 allegedly downing 19 Allied aircraft for six Me 262s lost, although these claims have never been verified by cross-checking with USAAF records. The RAF Museum holds no intelligence reports of RAF aircraft engaging in combat with Me 262s in August, although there is a report of an unarmed encounter between an Me 262 and a Mosquito. ⁽²¹⁾

Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe / Sturmvogel. Vwersions. Part 2. German Dzib -Compiler-

   The production "Me-262A-1a Schwalbe (Swallow)" fighter that finally emerged was fitted with two Jumo-004B engines with 8.83 kN (900 kgp / 1,980 lbf) thrust each. The "B"-series engines were production standard, using much smaller amounts of "strategic metals" such as chromium, nickel, and molybdenum than the pre-production "A" series engines. That made the "B" series engines substantially lighter than the "A" engines, but at a price, as described below.

ME262WendeL

ME262WendeL: LINK

Messerschmitt 262 A-1 Bedienvorschrift A-2

Messerschmitt 262 A-1 Bedienvorschrift A-2: LINK

Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe / Sturmvogel. The Beginning of Story. Part 1. German Dzib -Compiler-

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orld War II saw the introduction of jet aircraft. One of the most prominent jets of the conflict was the "Messerschmitt Me-262", a twin-jet fighter of advanced design. The Me-262 was recognized after the war as generally superior to anything the Allies had, and helped point the way to postwar aircraft development. This document provides a history of the Me-262.

The Messerschmitt Me-262 was an outgrowth of German turbojet-engine development work that had begun in the mid-1930s, with the initial concepts conceived by an engineer named Hans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain, whose efforts paralleled those of Frank Whittle of Britain. In 1933, while von Ohain was working on his doctorate at the University of Goettingen, he began investigate the gas turbine as a basis for an advanced aircraft engine. Although most of the feedback he received suggested that gas turbines would be too heavy for such a role, he pressed on anyway, developing a demonstrator model of a "turbojet" engine in his garage, with the help of a mechanic named Max Hahn.