Historical Day over UK 🇬🇧 The perfect ME-262 Replica Flew A Demo For the First time at Riat 2023 Definitely a Rare sight for sure.

The star of the show is the Messerschmitt Me 262 with the first appearance at a UK airshow!

This aircraft, registration D-IMTT is operated by Flugmuseum Messerschmitt and supported by the Airbus Heritage Flight. It has been based at Manching in Germany since its delivery in 2006.


In 1993, the Me 262 project was created in Texas to produce replica airworthy examples of the Me 262 based off a genuine two-seat Me 262B-1 borrowed from the US Navy. The project was to build five aircraft, one single seat Me 262A-1, a pair of Me 262B-1 two seat examples, and a final pair which were capable of being converted from A-1 to B-1 as required. These replicas differed from the original aircraft by having strengthened undercarriage plus the use of modern reliable General Electric CJ610 Turbojet engines, disguised to look like the original Junkers Jumo 004B engines.

00:00 Intro
00:07 Taxing out for departure
00:41 Departure
01:08 Demo Display
05:09 UP close Landing

Messerschmitt Me 262 was a single-seat jet fighter that was used by Germany during World War II.

The first production model of the series was the Me 262A-0 pre-production model, though the first standard model became the A-1a. The Me 262 was the first operational jet fighter ever and it had dual Junkers Jumo 004 Jet Engines that were capable of propelling the Me 262 at speeds of up to 869 km/h. Armament consisted of four 30mm MK 108 autocannons mounted in the nose and up to twenty-four 55mm R4M anti-air rockets for use against Allied bombers. As a fighter bomber conversion, the 262 could also carry two 250 kilogram bombs underneath the fuselage or one 500 kilogram bomb.

The total weight of the Me 262 was around 3,800 kilograms empty while its total length was around 10.6 meters. Wingspan was 12.4 meters. The 262 had an operational range of around 1,050 kilometers and service ceiling of nerarly 11,500 meters.[3] With a rate of climb of nearly 1,200 meters per minute, it was clear to see how revolutionary the Me 262 design truly was. However, it did have its drawbacks, the engines of the aircraft were known to catch fire if the throttle was put up too quickly and mistakes at low-altitude were quite hazardous. However, the major shortcoming was that the aircraft lacked dive breaks. Furthermore, the Me 262 required a long runway so that it could take off; this later became its enemy when Allied fighters began taking advantage of this and shooting most 262s down on takeoff and landing. For protection, the pilot had saw through a 90mm thick hardened piece of armored glass.

While jet to jet confrontations did not happen between Gloster Meteors and Me 262s on the Western Front, it was noted in a 1945 report by the Allies that the Gloster Meteor, using its lower wing-loading, would be able to outturn the Me 262 in aerial combat as well as have the ability to dive away or keep up with it, something most conventional Allied aircraft could not.

Me 262 Shotdown, 1945
A shotdown Me 262 captured by a P-51 Mustang gun camera
The A-1A was the first model of 262 to be able to mount R4M air-to-air rockets underneath its wings. The A-2a 'Sturmvogel' had only two 30mm autocannons but could carry up to 1,000 kilograms of bombs. The A-4a and A-5a were both reconnaissance versions. The various subtypes of the two seat Me 262B were used for advanced flight training and night fighting. The C-1a and C-2b conversions were 262s modified with additional rocket boosters mounted either in the tail or the wings and were the first to takeoff with both rocket and jet power. However, these two remained prototypes. The final 'variants' are the famed HG II and HG III ideas to create much more streamlined, high speed Me 262s.

History
The Messerschmitt Me 262 began development as early as 1939, even before the start of the war. However, low-priority status and issues with the extremely complicated jet engine manufacturing delayed the project severely. However, the aircraft finally took flight with jet engines in July 1942.

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