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[Photon440]

One of the five replicas built by The Me 262 Project in Everett, Washington about ten years ago.

 

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[JR_Charger]

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Your own plane?

Here's my plane. I'd like to build it full-scale but it will likely be obsolete as anything but an art piece soon.

 

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Your own plane?

Here's my plane. I'd like to build it full-scale but it will likely be obsolete as anything but an art piece soon.

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Yes... I built it. Flying it for 27 years now

 

[JR_Charger]

Hmm . . . I thought it was a Cessna 152 but it doesn't have the root extension on the vertical stabilizer. What is it?

 

[Photon440]

http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/Images/Me262/262PilotHandbook.pdf

Since we're on the topic, here's the ME-262 pilot's handbook to peruse... It appears to be the post-war American version used for evaluating captured jets.

An interesting bit of information thought I, as I read through the handbook.

Does this infer that some pilot had broken the sound barrier in the jet? It reads as though this was a repeated test. This was written in Jan. 1946.

 

[JR_Charger]

F-35 testing a new skin.

 

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An interesting bit of information thought I, as I read through the handbook.

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Does this infer that some pilot had broken the sound barrier in the jet? It reads as though this was a repeated test. This was written in Jan. 1946.

Probably, but not officialy, and/or they did not survive to tell about it.
Same with the ME 163.

 

[Photon440]

Probably, but not officialy, and/or they did not survive to tell about it.
Same with the ME 163.

If they could report that normal flying control was restored when the sound barrier was exceeded, I would suspect that someone survived to make that claim.

 

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Pilot was killed.

 

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no idea