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Allied pilots would take advantage of this by loitering around airfields & then attacking Me-262 as they appeared. It was however extremely vulnerable when taking off or landing as it couldn't maneuver or accelerate during this time or the engines would stall. Once in combat though it proved highly capable and able to outperform most allied fighters, with several pilots becoming aces. These political problems along with the extended development of the jet engines meant that the Me-262 wasn't able to go into operation use until April 1944, six years after its original conception.
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After the Me-262 prototype was demonstrated to Hitler in mid 1943 he also insisted that the design should be modified into a multi-role fighter-bomber which lead to redesigns of the nearly finished fighter aircraft. As well as the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe Hermann Göring who expected the war to be won before the aircraft could be ready for production, as such funding & support was withheld at times. There was opposition to the Me-262 from several high-ranking officials during early development including the head of Messerschmitt, who wanted to concentrate production on proven propeller designs. The first flight with the Jumo 004 took place on July 1942 in the V3 prototype, marking the first flight of the Me-262 with jets only. With this failure it was decided to switch to the more reliable Jumo 004 jet engines. For the first test flight the Jumo 210 was retained for safety, which proved wise as both BMW 003 engines suffered a flameout causing them to stall, the Jumo 210 was then used to bring the prototype safely back to base. It wasn't until November 1941 that a pair of BMW 003 were ready to be fitted to the prototype. The first "V1" prototype was ready in April 1941 however the BMW 003 jet engines intended for the aircraft weren't ready so a conventional Junkers Jumo 210 engine with a propeller was fitted to the nose so basic testing of the airframe could be carried out. This change also necessitated a change of the wings to a swept configuration to compensate for the change in centre of gravity.
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Because of these problems it was decided to move the engines to pods fitted under the wing to facilitate easy removal for maintenance. Development of the BMW 003 jet engines intended for the Me-262 was repeatedly delayed because of the many technical problems encountered with this brand new propulsion system.
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Work on this revolutionary aircraft started in late 1938 under the code name Projekt 1065, the initial design proposed in April 1939 differed considerably from the production version, the engines were mounted in the wing roots & the wings were straight. The German Me-262 was the first mass-produced & operationally used jet fighter in the world. I'll make them both at a later date along with several other early Allied jets. I'd also planned to include the Soviet Sukhoi Su-9 & British Hawker P.1048 with these but both are independent designs that only resembled/were inspired by the Me-262 tho. Due to limitations with the game's engine I was unable to get this system working, if it becomes possible in the future tho it will be added to D-day. I actually made these units early last year & started writing the wiki pages for them last April! I'm glad I can now finally finish posting them.Īnother variant that I started working on but was unable to finish was the Me-262 C-3a, which featured an extra rocket engine in the tail for short speed boosts. I'm back with a big news post covering the early development of German & Japanese jet aircraft with several Me-262 variants and copies.