ME 262 reproductions

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The warbirds thread brought up a WTF moment I had a few years ago at Paine Field. One afternoon as I was getting off from work, I looked up and saw one of these on takeoff.

As I was looking at Bing maps I noticed one of the updated Birds Eye views caught one of them out of it's hanger over by the Flying Heritage collection buildings.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_262_Project


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[NewGuy2005 53]

Wow. That's not something you see every day.

[MikeJD 0]

Nice. There's something very shark-like about the Me 262, don't you think? Especially when it presents that pale grey belly.

What's the deal with the 'hump-backed' version, White 1? I'd never seen that shape before - presumably a 2-seater/ trainer variant, although I could only see one seat in there.

Edited to add: of course I only needed to look at the website properly to have that question answered...

[lawrocket 3]

What a legendary and groundbreaking bird. It wasn't groundbreaking for the jet (though it was the first operational jet fighter the Gloucester Meteor was the first production jet fighter) the 262 had swept wings - by accident/necessity because the engines were too heavy. It was a breakthrough.

I'd love to see that place, Jeanne.

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[kasch 0]

That is pretty awesome! Another plane late to the war but one that made a hugh impact.

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What a legendary and groundbreaking bird. It wasn't groundbreaking for the jet (though it was the first operational jet fighter the Gloucester Meteor was the first production jet fighter) the 262 had swept wings - by accident/necessity because the engines were too heavy. It was a breakthrough.

I'd love to see that place, Jeanne.

It's sitting right there in the old ADC hangers just to the SW of the Heritage Flight Museumcool flying events thruout the summer when they take the aircraft out and "exercise" them.
I have seen the ME-262 at Paine Field flying several times, usually when the weather is nice.. I would not be surprised if they "exercised" it this weekend.. the forcast is lookin reallly good.

[ShcShc11 0]

Very nice! Good to hear.

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That is pretty awesome! Another plane late to the war but one that made a hugh impact.

I do not particularly think the Me262 had that much of an impact. The Jumo004 engine particularly had a lot of bugs and were sent to war far too early.

There was a myth in the post-war era where Adolf Galland and Messerschmitt said the "Me262 could have been operational by March-April 1944 had Hitler not tried to put bombing capabilities".

Fact is, the engines could not be ready until Summer 1944.

A legendary aircraft for sure, but falls into the same category as the V2 and U-Boat XXIII. Germany just does not have the economy to build them with the quality desired (nor the quantity.

Cheers! Shc