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Jet Combat in WWII: Me 262 vs Gloster Meteor

The debut of jet-powered aircraft in World War II marked a turning point in aviation history. Among the first of their kind, two aircraft emerged as pioneers of the jet age: the German Messerschmitt ...
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Messerschmitt Me 262 Flies Again: Military Aviation Museum's Replica Returns to the Skies

On a quiet Virginia afternoon, the Military Aviation Museum‘s Messerschmitt Me 262 replica returned to the skies for the first time in over a decade. The museum's chief pilot, Mike Spalding, took off ...
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The Fastest Plane of WWII Came Too Late to Make a Difference, But Changed Aviation

While it wasn't the first jet-engined aircraft that flew, the ME-262 was the first operational jet-fighter. So many technical and political troubles struck its development that it began its career as ...
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Me 262 damaged in test landing

The first flyable replica Messerschmidt Me 262 has been damaged in a landing incident at the end of its second test flight. Project engineers are assessing damage caused by the collapse of the left ...
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Avia S-92: Germany's First Jet Fighter Reborn in Czechoslovakia

The Me-262 is a jet that needs no introduction. Perhaps no German WWII fighter on this side of the Bf-109 and possibly the Fokke Wulf Fw-190 is as recognizable as the Me-262 jet. But for how ...
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Messerschmitt Me. 262; a pictorial and design study including the pilot handbook

Preface signed Michael S. Rice. "ME-262 A-1 pilot's handbook, by F.D. Van Wart, 1946": p.1-30.
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Messerschmitt Me 262 : development, testing, production / Willy Radinger, Walther Schick ; translated from the German by David Johnston

Translation of: Me 262, Entwicklung, Erprobung und Fertigung des ersten einsatzfähigen Düsenjag̈ers der Welt. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...