ME262 Project

No longer a "project"...they have been flying for years now.......just sayin'. Last update was 5 years ago.
 
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Visited the ME262 Project site in Washington a few years back with my Dad. Dad was personal friends with Franz Stigler a WWII German fighter ace & original ME262 pilot. Stigler immigrated to Canada after WWII and lived in Surrey, B.C. He was an honorary consultant to the ME262 Project.

http://www.stormbirds.com/project/general/updates_2001.htm

IIRC when I visited with Dad they had one completed aircraft and one in the works.

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The Swedish Saab j21 also had an ejection seat.

Saab deliberated between systems that would eject the pilot, or jettison the propeller or the engine, via a system of explosive bolts,[1] and eventually installed an early ejector seat developed by Bofors for the purpose and tested in 1943.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_21
 
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Visited the ME262 Project site in Washington a few years back with my Dad. Dad was personal friends with Franz Stigler a WWII German fighter ace & original ME262 pilot. Stigler immigrated to Canada after WWII and lived in Surrey, B.C. He was an honorary consultant to the ME262 Project.

http://www.stormbirds.com/project/general/updates_2001.htm

IIRC when I visited with Dad they had one completed aircraft and one in the works.

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awesome
 
The Collings Foundation is pleased to announce their new Me 262 flight program that allows individuals to experience the wonder of flying in the legendary Messerschmitt Me 262.

Now that would be a ride. :)

Grizz
 
I find i very puzzling that Me-262 was researched by just about everyone to death,almost went into production in USSR and Horten 229 was totally forgotten.

Horten 229 and other projects based on it was and still is far more advanced than great many other projects of that era.

Only Northrop Corp. tried to go that way but went about it slightly diffrent than Horten brothers.They failed.

It took about 50 years and a huge leap in computer technology to build next "flying wing" in form of B-2 bomber.

It's just weird.
 
The ME-262 was a fairly conventional design.

The Horton and other flying wings were not.

That said, there are a number of other flying wing projects....from the XP-79 to the XB-35, and YB-49 that indicate there was interest in the concept, but perhaps there were control/stability issues that were not easily solved until the advent of the flight computers that control modern aircraft?

NS
 
We have an old family friend that we visit on occasion. He's 94 and still going strong living in the eastern townships of Quebec. He was a test pilot for the Luftwaffe and was one of the first pilots to fly the ME-262. He has some interesting stories.
 
I've got "A Higher Power", the story of Stigler (and other Luftwaffe pilots) throughout the war and it covers the Me 262 era. It's a great read and would make a great movie.
 
Without a doubt the world jumped ahead in technology at an incredible pace but at a terrible price. Wonder what would have happened if the Nazis would have focused on technology first before expansion and had another 5 years.

I also read Stalin was planning on pushing into Germany before Hitler declared war on Russia. Does not look like the war could have been avoided either way but had the Germans got the A Bomb first, had the new A4 missile and the Horton bomber, the number of tanks and soldiers would have been irrelevant to all world armies in the 40s/50s.

Fortunately the German scientists defected to the US and the rest were captured by the Russians, easy to see why they lead the space race.

The Horton Bomber: Light years ahead of the Allies broadcast on H2 Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86_0voiHczY

And the V2: The A4 multi-stage would have been able to reach the Eastern US and all of Europe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDmaFj2dJ8A


Randy
 
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