This is amazing, I did not realize there are still functioning Me-262s in the world today! Wow, I didn't realize how much feedback this comment would get lol. Just wanted to say that I see it's a repro aircraft now. Thanks for the insights everyone!
@@spinnetti They are GE CJ610s from the Learjet class. The plane is still over-powered with the GEs so power settings to mimic the original Jumo turbines are used, with available reserve. Replica engine nacelles were constructed to mount the 610s, both for appearance and to keep the correct weight and CG for the aircraft.
My father flew 34 missions in a B17, stormy weather, over Germany in 43 and 44. He didn't talk about it much, wouldn't. But once I asked him if he ever shot at or saw one of the Germany jet fighters. He said he did, but that they were so fast, that all he could do is spray bullets ahead of them. Said he never got one.
@@zaynevanday142don’t quote me, but I think after 25 missions it was optional. I can assume that those in bombers who did 25+ missions had reasons to keep going such as wanting to see the war to its end.
This string is a bend meter or turn coordinator. It shows whether the directional rudders are swung correctly in relation to the ailerons. It is correct when it lies parallel to the aircraft axis. If it is tilted left or right in a turn, it means that there is a slip or yaw. The string is very often used in gliders. The beginning of learning to fly gliders is all about coordinating the correct leanings.
You can really see how wobbly and slower responding the controls are compared to later generation jets. It was so fast compared to the opponents that it didnt need to dogfight, could climb and dive at will.
The controls aren’t really slow just heavy and the wobble is probably Dutch roll caused by the swept wing and smaller vertical fin and rudder. With swept wings the air will flow across and spanwise or across and outward at lower speeds causing that phenomenon. Northrop had a electronic yaw damper for the autopilots figured out in the late 1940s. Beautiful engineering.
Was sorta the whole issue with early jets, they realized you're going so fast you don't have the fine control or time to even line up a shot. At a certain point human reaction time just isn't enough compared to BVR, sensors, radar, etc.
@@Wilhelm4131 It's a classic combat flight simulator game, bearing the name of the iconic ground attack aircraft. And doesn't matter if that Russian plane in an entirely different category was slow, it was heavily armored and there was tens of thousands of them lol
I've flown this in a flight simulator before. I'm not a real pilot, but after seeing this, it just makes me realize how awesome flight simulators are these days. Took me a while to tell that this was real and not a simulation.
You have to imagine that the world's first jet aircraft was built by the Germans in the 1940s. At that time, my grandfather was still plowing the fields with his team of oxen. It's crazy how far ahead the German armaments engineers were of the time.
It it said that the nazis got technological help from the (Nordic) aliens. After the war Operation High Jump wit Admiral Byrd tried to conquer the Nazi base in Neuschwabenland (Arctic) but got their @$$es kicked by flying causers that emerged from the ocean. Look it up.
World's first jet was built by the British in the 30s. They also beat the Germans to the punch with the Meteor in service a few months ahead of the 262, but they never sent them over Europe due to fears of capture.
He probably plowed his field with Oxen cause it was more cost effective then buying a tractor. Which he probably didn’t need depending on how much land he had. Germany was still using horses to move supplies cause they were terrible at making trucks during the war.
Idk why but i find this really relaxing to listen to. Also i used to hear sounds like what you can hear while the 262 is in the air whenever i was on the verge of falling asleep when i was younger
@@regencyrow1867This string is a bend meter or turn coordinator. It shows whether the directional rudders are swung correctly in relation to the ailerons. It is correct when it lies parallel to the aircraft axis. If it is tilted left or right in a turn, it means that there is a slip or yaw. The string is very often used in gliders. The beginning of learning to fly gliders is all about coordinating the correct leanings.
There were significant problems with engines flaming out in rolls, rocket racks losing electrical power, and being shot down on the long, slow takeoff run.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Now let's talk about the problems with USA, Britain, Soviets ect. Ohhhh wait, you won't because that list would be significantly longer.
@@stefanrath664 To be the right side if win or become the evil side if lose. Imagine being stupid enough to analyze history with contemporary morality.
SO COOOL!! I remember playing _Chuck Yeager's Air Combat_ back in the '90s. Toward the end of the WW2 campaign, the player encounters a couple of these... while flying a P-51. Just no catching up wth 'em, if they decide to scoot. I always wished the '262 were actually user flyable - back then, 30 years ago, if you wanted something like the awesome video above, it pretty much came down to **maybe** one or two primitive flight-sims or some of the scant, blurry, black-and-white footage that turned up in the rare kind of WW2 documentary to dig beyond a cursory mention of the Messerschmitt, usually breezed by as part of a rapid-fire tally of some of the more successful projects from the grab-bag of the innovative, the bizarre, and the absurd "wunderwaffe," in the closing minutes of a doc that had no reason to put any effort or runtime toward something only aviation geeks cared about. I'm just so happy to finally get a real peek at the experience of driving a Storm Bird. In modern HD, no less! Adding to the cool factor, to learn from this video that there even _is_ a non-zero number of currently operable, flying Me 262s? Plus, it can be flown, using - **not** some ultra-caustic, lost-to-time unobtanium - but that those Jumos spin up on something even remotely available, in the U.S., *in 2023?* _And, one was just recently flying over Houston?!_ I'm practically glowing! Thank you for the upload.
They aren't jumos, they're GE engines adapted from a Learjet. It's one from a run of only 5 replicas, however they're extremely faithful down to even having the exact same CG as the original airframe.
I volunteer at the Wings Over Houston Airshow every year, whenever this plan is flying, I stop what I am doing and watch it, amazing plane and technology
I lived 5 miles from Ellington Field and went to the Wings Over Houston Airshow every year until I moved away to college. My house has been torn down and there's a concrete business where it once was. I spent a lot of time in Ellington Field as a Civil Air Patrol cadet back in the mid-80's. Nice to the see the place again, especially through the cockpit of a 262. Thanks.
Awesome footage. Looks like it could really use a yaw damper - typical undamped swept wing aircraft side to side nose movement, based on my limited experience with the thing switched off!
I once flew as a patient in a small ambulance aircraft and it did yaw like that from side to side to much larger degree then in this video... Never experienced that before in any aircraft.
Magnifique vidéo. Je n'avais jamais vu un vol de Me 262 de l'intérieur mais que des vidéos de l'extérieur. Quelle technologie de l'époque avec ses pilotes d'essais sur ces inovations sans compter le Horten IX, l'Arado B 234, JU 287.
My Dad at the end o the war remembers seeing one and was so excited. He was used to seeing 109's, Heinkels,etc but the Me-262 blew him away as he didn't really know what he was seeing.
Sensational video, sensational aircraft, what a privilege to ride along with the pilot. Thank you so much for posting (and for not adding music which can be such a distraction).
Imagine you are a B-17 gunner and this German Me 262 fighter jet comes flying towards you at 900 km/h and opens fire with its four 30 mm MK108 cannons.
Wow! The one that started it all! German engineering! I can not imagine allied air Corps seeing something this from their piston powered aircraft! The pilot of one of these must have been awe struck!
@@mikeycraig8970 You know what he means, stop acting like youre 12 and your dad works in Nintendo. Germans made the 1st pretty much proper jet fighter, everybody else just stole their stuff and moved from that.
@@PYROWORKSTVironically, the me262 featured in this video isn’t German, it’s an American reproduction with General Electric engines. Look up the “me262 project”.
What’s great is how rickety this handles and has sound to back it up. Thanks for that. I can’t imagine being in this thing with the constant roar after having experience with prop fethering
Great to see people appreciating this and not hating on because it was an unlucky time period for the people who engineered it. Like the Russian planes, people hate on them because they are Russian. But that doesn’t mean anything. What matters is that they are all amazing on their own way
Thank you so much Rick Sharpe for this flight in an ME262. Amazing …. Almost like being in it myself. This old man is very thankful. Take care, and be safe. 😃🙂👏🏼👍🏼👏🏼👍🏼👋🏼🙏🏼
Saw one of these at the airpower here in austria, amazing birds, can't even imagine seeing them from the ground during a war, even just seeing them as a spectator makes you feel absolutely powerless.
EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT THE ORIGINAL ENGINES, THE STRUCTURE IS THE ORIGINAL. THE SOUND OF THE VIBRATION OF THE METAL IN THE AIR INTAKE OF THE TURBINE IS WONDERFUL.
@@fn3048 yes 100% new build replica, they used an original Me 262 to copy from. The Willows Grove's old front gate static display Me 262 from WWII. Which is in Pensacola now if anyone wants to see it.
N262az is a ME262 replica. It had a crash landing in 2003. Post accident inspection of the aircraft's left main gear hydraulic system revealed that the hydraulic actuator locking slide was undersized which allowed the gear to collapse (unlock) when placed under a load.
+@TheOne-xh4ol It had main gear collapse and punch through the wing on a test flight. Though the info I originally read was it was a flaw from when the Me-262 switched to tricycle gear configuration, so they reengineered the main gear mounts to make them stronger.
This must certainly be one of the 5 replicas built by American private individuals of the "American Me 262 Project" from 2003, a variant of the single-seater Me 262 A-1c. Nice flight :)
I visited a client in her home circa 1982. On a sideboard was an open photo album featuring ME-262 aircraft, an American Officer, and German military , recently surrendered. He husband, then deceased, was an american officer of German or Swiss heritage, assigned to oversee the captured ME-262 Aircraft, along with what could be gathered of their ground crews. This was in Portland Oregon.
+@fw1421 The project that built the new Me-262s intentionally limited them to five examples as a business decision. They would still have the jigs and data for any repairs.
@@bigmart932 The limit was a guarantee to buyers that the planes would hold their value. And realistically there is a timeline and there were not going to be many customers for this type of aircraft.
@@bigmart932 I think that they actually had trouble selling the last few. I remember Michael Dorn looking into buying one, but I don't think that he ever did.
80 years ago this was the absolute pinnacle of badassery. Politics aside, if this was YOU in the cockpit back then, that meant that you=pure distilled badass
I saw one of this Me262 in Linz Hörsching Austria 🇦🇹in January 2018 in a hangar of our Air force. The maintained the turbines there. As it startet I saluted as good I could! Greetings an old but very fit Sergeant Major from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
Imagine being capt Yeager flying over that runway with aa and a me 262 in sight then Germany proceeded to get its ground transport units koed which pretty much made it useless. Amazing video btw
I’m aware of the stats of top speed of P51, P38, Spitfire, ME262, etc & I’ve seen cockpit videos … but the speed & maneuverability of the 262 is just remarkable!
you can see the dutch roll in this view, must have been a big change to get used to when going from straight winged fighters to the first swept wings. makes me thankful for series yaw dampners!
