Aircraft Videos and Images

[Sternjaeger II]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDs1x...eature=related

some of the details shown were very interesting, i.e. the canopy release system, adjustable seat and last but not least the fact that the Revi 16 could be moved out of the way!

[raaaid]

oh to make the 262 a bomber instead of a fighter

nahh i dont believe the nazis to be that stupid thats probably histroy wriiten by the winners

or were they tryully that dumb to give the 262 a bomber role?

[swiss]

Not "they" it was "him".

[Sven]

Originally Posted by raaaid

oh to make the 262 a bomber instead of a fighter

nahh i dont believe the nazis to be that stupid thats probably histroy wriiten by the winners

or were they tryully that dumb to give the 262 a bomber role?

It wasn't dumb at all, it was needed on the West-front in case on an invasion, the fast jet fighters could evade flak and fighters to strike down on the ships.
That was the plan. The me-262 appeared too late in action to achieve that, by the time they appeared in larger numbers a lot of me-262s were already in the fighter role.

Thanks for posting that video!

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sven

It wasn't dumb at all, it was needed on the West-front in case on an invasion, the fast jet fighters could evade flak and fighters to strike down on the ships.
That was the plan. The me-262 appeared too late in action to achieve that, by the time they appeared in larger numbers a lot of me-262s were already in the fighter role.

Thanks for posting that video!

Great plan, especially when 1000s of bombers flatten your homeland.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Gröfaz had a great vision about the Me262 for being a "Verteidigung Waffe" aka Weapon of Retaliation thus it was to be a bomber. But too late did Gröfaz approve the fighter role and so on. Nevertheless the world's first operational jet fighter.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

Gröfaz had a great vision about the Me262 for being a "Verteidigung Waffe" aka Weapon of Retaliation thus it was to be a bomber. But too late did Gröfaz approve the fighter role and so on. Nevertheless the world's first operational jet fighter.

Verteidigung or Vergeltung?

[Sven]

Originally Posted by swiss

Great plan, especially when 1000s of bombers flatten your homeland.

Hence Hitler changed his minds

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by Sven

Hence Hitler changed his minds

You need mind to change the same!

[badfinger]

Originally Posted by Sven

It wasn't dumb at all, it was needed on the West-front in case on an invasion, the fast jet fighters could evade flak and fighters to strike down on the ships.
That was the plan. The me-262 appeared too late in action to achieve that, by the time they appeared in larger numbers a lot of me-262s were already in the fighter role.

Thanks for posting that video!

I think there could have been enough 262's for both roles, if the Germans had stopped building other aircraft, such as the ME-109, HE-111, ME-163, HE-162, FW-190D (although it is my favorite) and stop working on all of those wild "1946" paper airplanes. They also needed to concentrate on getting the jet engines more reliable.

The just had too many irons in the fire.

Even then, with the P-51 escorting the bombers to Berlin and back, they couldn't have stopped the massive bombing raids.

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