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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    'scool

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The R4M Orkan rockets were brilliant and would have stopped Allied strat bombing in its tracks if only they were introduced several years earlier.

    The plane, idk.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >filename

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    love the file name

    it was ok when actually used for interception, engine problems kinda made it meh

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    very ahead of its time, supposedly could 1v1 a f-16 even today

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Top 5 most beautiful jets ever made. Not bad for mankind's first try.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    good bomber interceptor due to its high speed and firepower
    not so good as fighter because it lacked maneuverability
    lack of resources made its production harder and quality of the finished machines worse

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I just think it's neat.

      >not so good as fighter because it lacked maneuverability
      Boom and zoom homie

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >be flyin
    >be chilling
    >be Me 262

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ta 152 was da real wonder waffle

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Should have been a dedicated interceptor instead of a fighter bomber. Shooting down bombers should have been their priority by the time it went into service

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Overhyped, a lot of people talk it up as being the first jet fighter but literally nothing about it influenced later designs. I challenge you to find a postwar fighter that has a similar engine layout, everyone moved to having the engines further into the fuselage. Otherwise, a good design of its time and certainly a mencae of the air until the P80 showed up. I'd go as far to say it's the airborne equivalent of the Tiger, very cool but very dated

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Engine layout diverged, but it had swept wings which the contemporary P-80 and Meteor didn't use

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ME-262 wings were not swept enough to influence transonic handling, they were swept to off balance nose weight

        The sabrejet was not influenced by the ME-262, its swept wings originated from a combination of novel design and german research papers that had been ignored at the time of WW2

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Very interesting plane.
    The decentralized production, the fact that it could fly on any ol fuel, the speed of course. It was a weapon of desperation as well as innovation. Had the times not been so trying they certainly wouldn't accept the engine problems and push it into service. Cool plane that could've been great had they had time to properly develop it

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I really want to see one of the replicas flying

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      heritage flight museum almost has an original airborne.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    “as if an angel were pushing"

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think it was dangerous on the tactical level but on the strategic it was like trying to turn back the tide with a teaspoon... one that breaks often.
    The big issue with what-if's when it comes to making more of this jet, rushing it into service earlier, using it for more interception and so on is that if it succeeds, no one takes into account the inevitable Allied response.
    The Wester Allies had their own jet aircraft that did not receive priority in manufacture, research and deployment because their prop planes swarmed the sky. If the Me-262 ever came close to threatening their air superiority those priorities would change in a hurry.
    The planes they have would be rushed into production and most likely outnumber the German jets heavily within the year, meanwhile heavy research would go towards new planes or upgraded variants that close the performance gap between early allied planes and the Me-262.
    The best a successful Me-262 could hope for is halting the bomber raids deep into Germany but no where near winning the war.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      As an air to air fighter it was inferior to Allied P-80 and Meteor aircraft in particular due to it's weaponry. Logistically it was also far inferior due to lower quality engines that burned themselves out fairly quickly. It was however solid as a bomber interceptor, but Germany lacked the means to produce, service, and crew enough aircraft to stem Allied air power as a whole.

      If the Me-262 was enough of a threat, the Meteor would have been deployed on the continent instead of being kept on the British isles. I also counter that there was a gap between the Me-262 and Allied craft, as mentioned prior I'd consider the P-80/Meteor superior for air to air.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Overrated pile of shit like everything german,
    The engines were so badly designed that they could fly no longer than 2h max before melting and needing to be completely replaced with new ones, all for being just 10kmh faster than propeller planes. Modern jet engines are all based on superior British designs which at the time mogged the german subhumans.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Modern jet engines are all based on superior British designs
      Tank jet engines use the centrifugal-flow of the British engines, aircraft jet engines use the axial-flow of the Jumo 008.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Axial-flow engines are modern jet engines, not centrifugal-flow. You would've been better off noting that the USA had prototype axial-flow engines in the 1940s.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The engines were so badly designed
      I recall hearing somewhere that the reason why the engines died so quickly was because germany's industrial capacity had be so fricked by strategic bombing that they were no longer capable of producing the necessary alloys to build the engines to design specifications, so they had to use inferior materials that couldn't sustain the stress. That the engines would have been fine if germany wasn't already fricked.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >bombing did nothing, germany production rose every year
        >look at weapon X, it was totally degraded due to the bombing campaign
        will people ever agree on anything?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The engines were so well designed that they actually functioned at all, despite crippling material issues.
      Their lifespan was limited, but I would classify that as superior to a jet engine which simply cannot operate at all because it demands a bunch of nickel and other alloys.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A good technology demostrator

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hitler’s on the phone from Berlin
    Says I’m gonna make you a star

    It’s a really neat looking jet if nothing else

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Meteor was better.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    flying sexy making anglos seethe muh meteor machine

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i prefer the single gun versio

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Willie's done quite a job.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    sexy but i prefer the me-163

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