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25. Mär 2023
A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the design and evolution of the Messerschmitt Me 262
The Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter is remembered as the first jet fighter to be used in combat and was part of Adolf Hitler's emphasis on the "Wunderwaffe" in hopes of reversing the tide of the European theater of World War II that was gradually turning in favor of the Allies. However, many aspects of the development and production of this revolutionary fighter are not well-known to many aviation gurus, including the creation of trainer, night-fighter, reconnaissance, and mixed-power variants. Relying not just on prior knowledge of the development and production of the Me 262, but also a wealth of previously unpublished RLM and Messerschmitt documents, Dan Sharp updates knowledge of the design, development, and evolution of the Me 262, while refuting explanations by some historians as to why operational deployment of the Me 262 was delayed until 1944. Some important highlights and additional new data from this book can be summarized as follows:
- The designation Me 262A-3 was used twice, initially for the Me 262A-2/U2 variant of the Me 262A-2 fighter-bomber with a glazed nose section for the bombardier and later for the proposed Panzerflugzeug (armored airplane) variant of the baseline Me 262A-1 that would have had the cockpit protected by armor
- Messerschmitt temporarily put the Me 262 design on the backburner due to preoccupation with development of the Me 264 intercontinental bomber, Me 328 pulsejet fighter/attack aircraft, and two enhanced Bf 109 derivatives, the Me 309 and Me 209 (not to be confused with the Me 209 record-breaking aircraft). While the initial unavailability of and technical problems with the intended BMW 003 dogged the initial test flights of the Me 262, Messerschmitt's workload meant that production plans for the Me 262 would be put on hold until the point where the Me 309 program failed and production plans for the Me 264 were axed by Erhard Milch in 1943
- Design studies for rocket- and pulsejet-powered Me 262 variants were conducted in late 1941, long before the Me 262C Heimatschützer series began flight tests
- The Me 262C-2b Heimatschützer II was initially designated Me 262D-1
- The designation Me 609 associated in some books with a proposed twin-fuselage Me 309 was actually allocated to some production Me 262s built as Regensburg, and thus the twin-fuselage Me 309 design was called Me 309Z and not Me 609
- Despite Hitler's call for the Me 262 to be used as a fighter-bomber and Hermann Goering agreeing to Hitler's suggestion, fighter ace Adolf Galland and a few other Luftwaffe officials pushed back against the idea of configuring the Me 262 for the fighter-bomber role, and the worsening war situation for Germany in late 1944 made Hitler accept the fact that the Me 262 should be used in its intended role as a fighter
- The name Schwalbe (swallow) quoted as the official name for the Me 262 was actually coined by Allied intelligence and does not appear in wartime German documents, and the official German name for the Me 262 was Sturmvogel (storm bird), which is widely associated in literature with the Me 262A-2
- The RLM's first jet fighter requirement called for a jet fighter powered by a single jet engine, but Messerschmitt decided that a twin-engine jet fighter presented less technical risks because a single-jet design entailed difficulties accommodating the landing gear with the installation of the jet engine inside the fuselage
Anyone interested in German military aircraft of World War II and early jet aircraft ought to purchase this volume because it is the most up-to-date history of development and evolution of the Me 262, and Messerschmitt experimented with mixed-powered jet/rocket fighter variants of the Me 262 light-years ahead of the Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor and Saunders-Roe SR.53, SR.177, and P.187. Although things did not go Hitler's way when it came to his demand for use of the Me 262 as a fighter-bomber in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Normandy, this demand he made regarding the Me 262 is of the many reminders of how Hitler's psychology and drug addiction resulted in many political and military decisions that either cost Nazi Germany the air war against the Eighth Air Force or did not come to pass.
23. Jul 2025
A useful fish identification guide for aquarists, snorkelers, and scuba divers...colorfully detailed and illustrated!
Although this edition of Hawai'i's Fishes was published in the early 2000s, it provides an overview of marine fishes usually seen at depths frequented by scuba divers and snorkelers, along with diving and snorkeling spots in the Hawaiian Islands.
12. Mär 2022
A total rip-off conversion kit
This product was a rip-off in terms of components because it contained only a few parts (wings, propellers, engines, tailplane, guns), and my dad told me that it was a conversion kit to add parts to an existing model, yet I nonetheless put some components on the wings. If anyone's aware, the aircraft shown in the image on the top of the conversion set kit is actually the Heinkel He 177B, not the He 277, and the designations in the conversion kit instruction sheet are fictitious because the He 277 design study for a long-range bomber with a 131-foot wingspan did not leave the drawing board, and the He 177B designation, far from being a cover designation for He 277, was allocated to the He 177 variant with four individual piston engines originally designated He 177A-8 (there was a 1939 proposal for an He 177 design with four individual Jumos, the He 179, but it was never built), not to mention that Heinkel's proposed four-engine derivative of the unbuilt He 177A-7 was called He 177B-7 after having been originally called He 177A-10.