A British test pilot said taking up a captured Me-262 was a dream. No prop vibration. Just smooth control of everything.

Thanks for pointing out that almost every fighter in WWII could carry bombs, and that adding that capability to the 262 was simple. I tried to make that point in a comment on the Military Aviation History channel and was assaulted by legions of the uninformed and un-inform-able.

I'm Italian and i live close to Fermo city, as a pilot myself in real life i've always been interested in those kind of stories about aviation of the past times, and i heard about the story of a DH 98 Mosquito that during WW2 had to do an emergency landing/crash landing at the Fermo military airport at that time, but i whould have never immagined that episode whould have been the "almost" first confirmed kill of an Me 262! That's a thing that i didn't knew about that story but i've always been curious to deeper into it to discover more. Thank you so much Showtime for your hard work, love your videos and keep up the good work! 😉

One of the best lines I’ve ever heard about the ME262 “are they fast?” “Like a homesick angel”

I had a chance to caress one of these babies along with a P-51 and B-17 at an air show in Georgetown, TX and the first thing I noticed was the flush rivets. This baby was smooth.

Another great video ST112. I always look forward to Saturday's when (mostly) these come out.

6. interesting fact: new replicas were built with General Electric CJ610 engines - very widespread jet engine with not much trouble. It's called the "Me 262 Project".

Great video! The number of kills claimed by Me-262 pilots is between 500 and 700 Allied airplanes, depending on the source.

Another fascinating aspect is that the Germans showed the plane and shared the relevant technology (especially the jet engines) with their ally Japan, which produced a very similar plane, the Nakajima Kikka. The Kikka was smaller, with foldable wings so as to be able to be hidden in caves and such, but is strikingly similar. Japan first flew it the day after Hiroshima was bombed and had dozens more in production when the war ended.

beautiful machine.

There was an (Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a "Weiße 3" of the JG 7) JG7=fighter squadron, which had to perform an emergency landing due to low fuel at (Dübendorf) which was a Military Air Base in Switzerland at 08.46 AM on 25.4.1945 The Swiss Air Force examined the (ME 262 A-1a 1a "Weiße 3") completely. The german Pilot was (Hans Guido Mutke, Oberfähnrich) It then was handed over in 1957 by the Swiss Government to the German aviation department of the Museum in München where it is on display today.

Very good info this . Thank you. The sound you use sounds like the sound on the game 'wings of steel'. 👍🏻

Remarkable jet plane considering it flew operational combat during WWII. It was truly ahead of its time !!! Flying it during its time period must have felt with pride n marvel @ technology ahead of its time. Kudos for informative upload. New subscriber because of this vid. Anticipating ur next one. Peace

A lot of sources focus on the Me-262's speed, which was impressive. But often overlooked was the terrifying amount of firepower the M3-262 brought to bear on Allied aircraft. The Me-262 was armed with four Mk 108 30mm cannons, a deviously simple and effective weapon of remarkably compact dimensions. The Mk 108 had a short barrel, which limited muzzle velocity of its projectiles to 540 mps/1770fps, but this was deemed acceptable because the 30mmx90mm shell was relatively low velocity and claimed its brutish effectiveness through the relatively large explosive warhead it fired rather than through kinetic energy. Each high-explosive shell contained 5.5 g/85 gr of high explosive. Testing revealed it took only about five hits to destroy Allied bombers. Each Mk 108 fired 660 spm, or about 11 per second. Each shell weighed 330 g/.73 lbs. The Me-262 had four of these bad boys, so 44 shells left the nose every second, with a combined mass of 14.5 kg/ 32 lbs of shell containing a combined 242 g/ 3,740 gr of explosive. Because all four of these cannons were arranged centrally in the nose, all of this destruction was focused on a single point. Allied aircraft simply disintegrated.

There’s an ME262 on display at The South African National Museum of Military History. It’s quite remarkable and a must see 👍🇿🇦

EXCELLENT...as usual. Thanks for this great video and bringing back aviation historical facts to us. Keep working you are doing a GREAT JOB.

This channel is truly amazing with its facts as well as the graphics which are so lifelike! It always has me mesmerized to my screen m! 👍

More interesting facts that are not widely known. The Czech version was very interesting as I had not known that before.

Thank you for all that. My first love is DC-3 and ME 262 also mighty interesting. In both cases compelling aesthetics follow form and function. I follow a few of these flying now, at least one possibly replicated.

sure wish there were more specimens of this fascinating and historic aircraft still around for aviation museums got to see an actual remaining specimen at a museum where it was on loan - to me it was one of the top exhibits at the time

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Seeing the Me-262 must have been a very scary scenario for any Allies pilot!

I truly don't remember if I've seen this 1 already maybe I fell asleep cause I just came home from work or something but I'm gonna watch it again. Kick some a** Mr. ST112.

Thank you for making this video. It was very useful and informative

Nice work!

More interesting facts. Thanks Showtime.

I’ve read that the lack of high temperature metals for the engines made maintenance problematic. They couldn’t stand many hours before wearing out. Sound correct?

Early Me262 had tail dragger landing gear that was far from ideal. Conversion to tricycle gear took months.

Great video, thanks, subscribed.

Cool stuff! 👍🏻👏🏻💪🏻 I always loved the shape of this machine. 🥰🍻🍻🙋🏼‍♂️

The so-called Miracle Weapon was shown to Hitler first time in August 1943 he said to Willy Messerschmitt! That's the Machine I am gonna break the British air terror with. One of the mistakes was that Hitler not being an aviation expert wanted the Me262 to be a Bomber and act as one, not a Fighter Jet that was a complete miscast and in that role, of a Bomber, it could not really play to their strengths. In my personal opinion, I would say the main advantage of the Me 262 was its speed of a max 870 km/h (Mach 0.86) faster than a P-51 no other allied plane was as fast as the Me262 she was also called the -51 Mustang Killer. On the other hand, the disadvantages were the Me 262 needed a runway with at least 1300 meters in length for take-offs and landings so she was an easy target for the Allie fighters when spotted. At low speed the performance was poor the Me262 wanted to be flown fast and finally, her range was limited to 1000km = 621.371 Miles

I would like to know if this channel or any subscribers have any documentation regarding the often mentioned vulnerability of the Me-262 to interception during return to base. I have read anecdotal accounts of allied fighters bouncing 262s approaching to land, but was that a really a widespread occurrence? I know allied escort fighters would drop down on the way home to attack targets of opportunity, but were they under specific directives to hawk the airspace around fighter bases, or more specifically Me-262 bases? I know there were night intruder missions designed to hunt enemy night fighters between their bases and the bomber stream. Were there any daytime fighter intruder missions launched specifically to hunt enemy day fighters at low level near their bases? I do wonder why a 262 returning to base need be all that much more vulnerable than a prop fighter. It was not out of fuel like an Me-163 was. Air bases are usually heavily defended by AAA and sometimes fighter patrols. Assuming returning fighters kept their speed up until entering a tactical pitchout or pitch-up up for landing, I don’t see why the 262 would be exceptionally vulnerable until slowed to approach speed.

Good article, good video!

For the first operational jet fighter and a aircraft from the first generation of Jets, the 262 looks remarkably modern.

Great stuff 👍.... but what's the background music 🎶?

Excellent vid

The problem of Hitler and Me262 was not a delay in principle. Several people, including his personal physician, told Hitler that a fighter pilot could not perform dogfight manoeuvres with a jet aircraft - presumably because of the G-forces. Therefore Hitler was sceptical about using it as a fighter. Only a small quota of the Me262s produced were "allowed" as fighters. Only on this condition, that most Me262s would be used as fighter-bombers, was series production approved. As a result, fewer machines arrived at the test commands (Kommando Nowotny) and then at the fighter units at all, while the Me262s piled up at the bomber units. The lack of a bomb sight made the use of the Me262 as a fighter-bomber questionable anyway. By limiting how many Me262s could be assigned to which units, Hitler nevertheless had a strong inhibiting effect on the use of the Me262 as a fighter. Especially as the new technology required retraining in engineering and attack tactics. It is true that technical aspects, such as the readiness and availability of the engines, also had a delaying effect.

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Yeah that was really cool! I would guess they had quite a few issues mounting bombs, Mainly because it messes up COG. You also need the space and hardpoint strength, which they would have had to add in. Then factor in something the US stuggled with, at higher speeds your releasing can be a lot more complicated considering the air pressure. Making sure they aren't going to fly back up into the plane was probably an issue beyond just release. Then take off and landing most likely were difficult, as well as proper training on how to handle them. Though it was polish to the brass on the titanic at that point. 1500 frames are impressive but like you said, due to how they were made, to actually get them assembled by that point from so many different regions would have been near impossible. But they had been operating that way with 109s for a while, I wonder if indirectly some of the ways were ruined as time passed. Nice work M8!

Even if the plane had been put into operation on its original date, at best it would have set back the USAAF and RAF bomber command by a year or 18 months at most, considering the British had their own jet fighter the Meteor ready and the Americans had developed the P-80 in 1944 to counter it.

Me262 always reminds me of shark on attack, looks good it was good

Thing of beauty.

Nice video. Which flight simulator did you use for this video.

Great presentation! Love to see history brought to life by this channel. It's a sight for sore eyes to see one fly in real life. I've had such a privilege to so a few years ago at an air show. 🎩♠️🎯🎱🏁🇺🇦🔱🌻💮🌸🏵️🏴‍☠️🏹

Cool! Can I request a video on the Horten Ho-229???

The British Meteor was operational before wars end as well. They used it to attack the VI bombs.

In order for the 262 to have had a major impact on the war it would have needed to have been produced in quantity. In my opinion 6 months would not have done that as by that time the allies had gained air superiority and the manufacturing facilities would have been become primary targets of bomber command.

The Germans had developed the turbojet before WWII. The tech, airplanes, metallurgy, pilot training needed to be done before the war started. Needed large quantities of Ni, Cr, Tungsten to produce hi power turbojet that is long lasting and fuel efficient.

Hitler was such a bumbling military strategist that the British called Hitler "Britain's greatest general"

Interesting fact number 6: The early prototypes had a "tail dragger" landing gear configuration. They had to change that to a "tricycle" configuration because the exhaust from the engines was angled down towards the runway in a tail dragger configuration and it had a tendency to set the runway on fire.

Massive balls from the Mosquito's pilots that managed to reach Fermo with a wounded plane flying in from Germany

(Real Pilot) I fly it in VR. What a brilliant design...It needs better engines and a steerable nose wheel but other than that I love flying it.

Always wondered how it would perform with two modern jet engines small enough to fit in the pods.

Achtung!! Excellent aircraft.

One overlooked design detail of the Me 262 is the small Riedel starter motor located in the nose of each engine. It could be started using the pull cord ring located in the bullet nose of the jet engine. Much the same as pull starting a lawn mower. It could also be started using the 24 volt electric starter. This was a 2 stroke air-cooled twin cylinder engine that would be used to start Jumo 004 jet engine.

My favorite 2nd WW German aircraft. A beautiful designed aircraft. A shark in the sky. But glad they made to late. Good show. 👍😊

Here's another fact that gets overlooked. In Italy was several P-80 fighters that were as fast, and could out handle the 262. After the war the P-80s were stationed in Germany. Why wouldn't the US not allow the P-80 planes to go into combat, and that died with Hap Arnold.

Imagine when the Allie pilots saw an airplane flying through the air without propellers for the first time. 😮

Funny the meteor was operational in squadron service before the 262.

The Me 262 was to late for combat against the 8th Army Air force and 15 Army Air force in early 1944, the Germans were losing the oil fields and refinery out of business and German pilots killed and wounded.

Interesting story about this marvelous plane which arrived too late for changing the heart of History of the second world war.

An excellent book to read is Duels in the Sky by Capt. Eric M Brown RN A Fleet Air Arm fighter and test pilot during WW2 who actually flew many, many types of aircraft including the ME-262 and did a comprehensive assessment of aircraft and their capabilities against each other.

The Meteor f.3 was the more useful aircraft. As the aviation author Alfred Price reminds us, that during the final months of World War 2, _"Allied fighters were able to shoot down, on average, just over two German jet fighters for each Allied fighter or bomber that was destroyed by the jets."_ That's not a great average for a jet plane flown by the hand-picked elite of the Luftwaffe. The 262 was unmaneuverable, and fragile. The 262 had better straight line acceleration if the throttles were not opened too quickly, then the engines would cut out. The 262 was an inferior weapons system, owing to the unreliability of its engines and guns, compounded by its poor manoeuvrability. The Meteor didn't blow up when you tried to accelerate, and the cannons generally fired when you wanted them to. Those things are pretty important in a combat aircraft. The Meteor f.4 blew away the 262. It came out just as the war ended. The f.4 set world speed records.

Same with me109k series. No petrol not a drop.

So, the Czechs had better metals with which to build the engines?

The actual reason for the delay in the deployment of the 262 was manpower. Germany started the war with too few workers. There was a food problem despte them controlling the grain cornucopia of the Ukraine, whose fields were left fallow as the foreign farm workers were in German arms factories. A decision was made to send workers to production other than the jet fighter, which delayed its arrival. The Me-262's jet engines entered combat with the same problems that affected Whittle's jet, but in Britain these were seen as too dangerous even for test flights. Its use as a bomber was successful inasmuch as its speed mean it couldn't be stopped or engaged. The speed however affected its accuracy as a fighter or bomber, as indeed there was no appropriate targetting tehnology. B-17s had to attacked head-on, for safety, but the closing speed was so great that pilots had 2-3 seconds to get their guns on the small target presented by the bombers front profile [so often missed], though one 30mm cannon shell hit would have shot down the bomber. The Germans [and the Allies] knew by this time that the bombing war was a failure, as it used one-thrid of all war resources but clearly didn't significantly degrade its war effort, prior to ground forces occupying the bombing targets.

Hitler always wanted multirole fighters, like F18

If that plane had been put into production in 41 we'd all be speaking German now!

First off of 1, 400 Me262's produced less than 100 were airworthy at any one time. Partly this was due to the engines having a lifespan of less than 10 hours as German technology was affected by not having access to advanced steel, so a lot of valuable resources were required to keep the plane in the air. Also partly as the Me262 was built by slave labour who were not very invested in German success. Indeed between 35,000 and 50,000 people in slave labour died in the production of the Me 262. The high speed was a disadvantage, typically with 30 mm MK 108 cannon the pilot who would have usually have very little training had an entire 2 seconds to aim and fire and then try not to collide with the target. Captain Eric Brown noted that the Me262 lacked dive brakes which would have increased the effective engagement time. This is not clearly ideal in a dogfight either as Johannes Steinhoff Luftwaffe fighter ace noted. Until the Germans moved masses of ground anti aircraft flak guns to the airfields as they could not provide piston planes to protect the Me 262 on landing the P51's and Tempests especially would avoid dogfights prefering to destroy the Me262 on landing. The RAF had the jet powered Meteor and did not consider the Me262 to be such a threat as to require regular Meteor flights over Germany. As with the V1 and especially the V2 which cost as much as the atom bomb to develop it was the Germans misplaced belief that so called "wonder weapons" would win the war when they actually had little real impact. When the Allies were fielding1,000 bomber raids and even the RAF was bombing in daylight again the Me262 was never going to change the tide of the war.

They still had to start and land at a low speed, making them able to be shot down by allied fighters by then, and which controlled the air over Germany. And they consumed more fuel than ordinary planes. But a skilled german crew could even in the field change an engine in half an hour, which made the low operation time of a jet engine a minor problem.

The Me 262 went into production in 1942 D day was June 6 1944

Clean version 262 reached 628mpn in ww2

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262 rate of climb was good

Heinkel had a jet ready for production Heinkel He 280, 3 years prior but Hitler was biased to Messershmitt.

and today, every fighter is a fighter bomber.

Like no.164 👍😀

didnt watch the video yet, but one of them better be the engines are pull start like a lawnmower...

THE KILLER for Mustang

Also the pilot has no direct control of the nose wheel steering. This plane is only steered by pressing one of the brakes on the main gear to tip the nose wheel the direction ya wanna go in. : )

Adding bombs to a jet fighter was not only stupid(it had increased weight and,as a consequence,it had decreased its speed and the speed was the main thing that made the difference in the air combat) but it also delayed mass production,and time was short for the nazis..What should we expect from a gassed Austrian painter?

Me-262 also flew for the Soviets after the War, together with FW-190Doras and others. They also used the 262 Engines in their Mig-9 Jet Prototypes and later their own Copies in the Service Mig-9's. Wich was inferior to the 262 Airframe in many ways. Only the later Rolls Royce Design made the Mig-15 surpass the Me-262 in every detail but firepower. Althoug the single 37mm made Tank Kills in Korea possible. The MK-108, despite it being a 30mm Gun was not strong enough for that purpose.

Not all of us like Chris from military aviation. Strikes me as a spoiled rich boy. But not rich enough to move out of his parent's attic. 😄.

The ME 262 look like a great white shark

Avia also built BF 109's

I don't agree that it had the "potential to turn the tide of the war." Other than that, it's an excellent video. Even if the Allies, including the Soviets, had lost air superiority things were too far gone on the ground. Perhaps the Luftwaffe would have intercepted any B-29 carrying an atomic bomb, but the outcome had been decided by 1942 or 1943. Albert Speer set the date earlier, November 1941, when it became evident that Barbarossa would not succeed in capturing Moscow. Germany was not equipped for a war of attrition.

Mequito Wooden fast fighter. Me-262: hold my beer, I have four 30mm cannons and Uber fast.

Can you make a video to get rid of all the wehraboos once and for all? How about a flying tiger tank launched from the Bismarck?

The 20mm cannons on the 262 would have disentegrated the wooden build of the Mosquito!!

Good use of computer graphics

If the pilot moved the throttles too fast, the engines would suffer compressor stalls. Not good on takeoff and landings or low altitude

The 262 fighter bomber danger was its use would have been taken away from destroying dickie autos

Fun fact about me = two hundred and sixty two.

Germany's point fighter, suffered from the same as the British short range fighters. Nothing changed.

Adding bomb pylons and the necessary drop switches is easy; modifying some planes into being a suitable fighter-bomber is not.

The 262 was the future? A flying coffin! Apart from a few the Czechs used for a few years after WW2, with superior engines, given to them by the Soviets, no one took took up the 262. A poor design indeed. The Meteor is still flying to day. The Meteor was the future. ▪ Forward in the nose pilot position giving all around visibility; ▪ High tail, out of the line of the engine’s thrust; ▪ Reliable and powerful engines using advanced alloys; ▪ Centrifugal and axial-flow engines available; All future jet planes used elements of the Meteor. No one used anything from the 262.

First fighter jet, first ICBM, first intermediate select fire assault rifle. Just think if Hitler had been patient and less idiotic.

Downed plane could have been nabbed and quickly recovered by enemies

Nice

Check out the excellent channel WW2 US Bombers for a recent analysis of Me 262 effectiveness.