207220 Modeler 1/72 Jet fighter Messerschmitt Me.262, Germany, 1944.

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Messerschmitt Me Jet fighter.262, Germany, 1944.

If this aircraft was more reliable and appeared at the front a year or two earlier, it would undoubtedly affect the entire course of the war in the air. And the prerequisites for this were. The design of an experimental aircraft for flight tests of turbojet engines was started at The Messerschmitt company in October 1938. In its design was immediately laid the possibility of refinement to a serial combat fighter. These engines BMW has committed to deliver until the end of 1939, which was not done. Therefore, the aircraft made its first flight on April 18, 1941 with a piston engine. With a jet engine, it first took off on July 18, 1942. Debugging the aircraft to combat readiness took another almost two years (an unthinkable long time in war conditions). The first story of the Me 262 into combat in June 1944 had the test team EKdo 262, originally consisted of test pilots "Messerschmitt".
Amid the General chaos in defeated Germany, this "miracle of German technical thought" could no longer prevent the defeat of the Luftwaffe.