Messerschmitt Me 262 "Schwalbe" - First Flight Over Berlin after 61 Years at the ILA Berlin Airshow 2006. Flown by EADS Chief Test Pilot Wolfgang Schirdewahn.
Watch more videos of this event or by other airshows on the playlists of my channel below. Messerschmitt: ru-vid.com/group/PL_kDcX2_3upoFD72l9jlCI0mHjxfbtZ69 Warbirds: ru-vid.com/group/PL_kDcX2_3upoq5qHhsAxNXMiIuSCtOl_V Hangar 10: ru-vid.com/group/PL_kDcX2_3upoEavcA1EWAHRzMmIG6CB8K Spitfire: ru-vid.com/group/PL_kDcX2_3upoWC3ftQ-dNfj6_cjXCxVvF Airshows: ru-vid.com/group/PL_kDcX2_3upoq5qHhsAxNXMiIuSCtOl_V
@@ranekeisenkralle8265, the Air Force Museum has one, but like all surviving Me-262's, it is not airworthy due to the junk metal it iwas made from, which rapidly deteriorated.
There have been a few manufactured new, in recent times, as well. I am not sure if any design issues were addressed, or not. It is likely the throttle issue was addressed.
@@helicorreia4851 I think one reason for this fascination is that it was the first of its kind. The first practical, mass produced, jet powered fighter aircraft.
The first assault rifle, the first jetfighter, first ballistic long range rockets, high tecnology developments. Germany is really special. The design of this after 100 years later is still modern and nothing older.😳😵🤯
The Assault rifle is disputed as there were other rifles before it as the Federov Auptomov was made right after ww1 and it hasn’t been 100 years after ww2 yet
Stg. 44...isn't a cutting edge technology...it's essentially a new concept.....just an automatic rifle with less powerful rifle round. US already had BAR since WW1 and Germany also made automatic FG-42 with full power rounds before Stg 44. Assault rifle = compact, lighter and less powerful version of battle rifle
The first liquid-fueled rockets were made by Robert Goddard - the Germans just scaled it up and put a warhead on it. They still couldn't hit anything reliably with it. It wound up as an extremely expensive way of putting a small warhead somewhere in the vicinity of London, never managing to hit a single militarily-useful target. Unmanned planes were also a well-known technology - the Germans just put a bomb on it, in response to the fact British airspace was far too hazardous for manned bombing missions.
@@jamescherry8482 are you serious?! I'm sure, US government back in 1945, "imported" all German rocket scientists they could put their hands on and put them to work (some of them as a head of the program) on the US rocket program, just because Germans were good at copying ... Come back to the reality.
Lost_Dreams Dan O'Connell's Me 262 Production log lists the fate of 1200 of the roughly 1500 Me 262s produced. It's the best information available. Anyone with a spare day to trawl through the book could compile an accurate list of Me 262s shot down.
Its crazy that this kind of technology was developed just about 30 years after the first airplane made its maiden flight, a couple of hundred feet. And these maschines were flying 800 km/h, wars really speed up the development of technology
The space race evolved from the militaristic potential of reverse engineered V-2s turned basis for ICBMs in Russia turned basis for ICBM launched satellites to spy on anything, which turned into the USA landing on the moon to prove USA technology is superior, join the winning side undecided nations of the world!
Tex Johnston's memoirs have stories like that: he was testing early US jet planes and had some fun surprising the pilots of prop planes. He'd join up on them unawares, and once they noticed his lack of propeller, he'd tip his bowler hat(!) and accelerate past them.
@Ville Hannula Though germany ww2 pilot Hans Guido Mutke clamied he broke sound barrier 1945 in an Me 262. He didnt clamied he was first, just he said he broke the sound barrier 1945, 2 years before Chuck Yeager.
Also not on tail for long because they were so short on fuel. Most of the 262s that were destroyed were destroyed on the ground, or just as they were taking off or landing, because in the air nothing could touch it.
I can tell you excatly how it was, my grandpa was flying on a spy-plane during WWII and he told me how it was to see a 262 for the first time. Basicly they couldn`t belive (that`s how he told me) that there were flames comeing out of the engines and it didn`t explode. They were totally stunned by seeing it rising in the air, and the gruesome noise it was making. They really had the hope that this plane would be able to stop the british and american bombers.
For being the first to see combat, and for being such an old design, the Me-262 is still one of the most beautiful aircraft to ever fly... As Galland said; it was as if being pushed forth by angels.
@@autova6205 part of that was deliberate sabotage by the slave laborers that were tasked with putting these engines together. (just like the problems with V2 engines not firing or exploding on ignition) Germany was not only out of resources, but also out of skilled labour. So the few people left who knew how to build jet engines had to instruct forced labourers on how to do it.
@@autova6205 considering germany didnt have much access to quality resources nor the time to actually refine the engine, i find 8 hours still quite much lmao.
This aircraft was built during a time of the war when strategic metals were becoming more scarce. The “hot” part of the engines in a jet require some very exotic metals in order to work correctly and not melt. The compressors have to be built to very tight tolerances to maintain balance and not tear themselves apart. Keep in mind that the German factories were bombed to bits and most of the manufacturing was moved underground in caves. Due to the engines being made out of subpar materials, they only had about 25 hours of flight time before they would need overhaul and/or replacement. That the Germans were able to do any of this at that point in the war shows their resourcefulness and amazing engineering talents.
Also the Chinese are developing native jet engines with similar time between maintenance. Even after seeing so many examples from the Russians , Europeans, Americans, Japanese. They cannot match the service times even today in peacetime
@@therealmeik Really ? All I get in dreams is either shit I don't remember or zombie apocalypse adventures where it goes from the beginning where we run away and it generally ends up with living in some sort of camp with scientists that try and find a cure, and then we get attacked, lots of blood and civilization gets rebuilt somehow.
@@flycatchful I was going to say, I'm super into Aviation and would like to get a private pilots license one day and definitely notice that not being able to land on the Tail in such a heavy fighter would be very uncomfortable trying to get your airspeed perfect for a smooth landing, Whoever is piloting this would be a pretty damn great pilot that's for sure.
What an honor to be chosen to fly the jet of their fathers and grandfathers! A truly pioneering aircraft... I have talked to US soldiers who upon entering Germany in early 1945, saw aircraft such as this lined up on airfields, grounded due to lack of fuel to fly them... gives the hit on Ploesti real meaning.
My grandfather, an American in his 90s now, was drafted by the US Army in WW2 and was deployed in Europe after the D-Day invasions as an infantryman in the 87th Infantry Division. After fighting across France and nearing the German border, logistics became a huge problem. His division was running low on rations, ammunition, etc.and his company in particular ran out of anti-tank weaponry. Just prior to the major German advance in Belgium (Battle of the Bulge), my grandfather's company was overtaken by a group of panzers. Without any any anti-tank weaponry, they were forced to surrender to the Germans. My grandfather told me that Allied victory and liberation seemed inevitable and even their German captors felt this. In fact, the Germans seemed more relieved that the horrible war was ending rather than being upset that Germany was about to lose. They were quite friendly towards my grandfather and the other Allied POWs. Fortunately his captors were regular German soldiers/tank commanders who didn't give a shit about Nazi ideology and just wanted a peaceful, normal life like anyone else (if his captors were part of the SS, who knows what would have happened to my grandfather). However, one day, these never before seen machines came screaming across the sky. Nobody, neither Allied or German, had ever seen a jet plane before. They just saw these things making an alien noise while moving from one end of the horizon to the other in what seemed like seconds. Everyone, including my grandfather and his German captors, thought the Germans had some kind of machine that was going to change the tide of the war in the Germans' favor and that the war would go on for much, much longer. They had all witnessed v1 and v2 rockets in previous months but my grandfather said these were much more frightening because they seemed incredibly advanced and capable of not just hitting English cities (like the v1 and v2s did) but had the potential of retaking control of the skies over Europe and turning the war in the Germans' favor. Fortunately that wasn't the case but hearing him talk about it was crazy considering he was one of the earliest witnesses of jet engine planes without even knowing it. He was telling me this while eating a banana in a golf cart while we were waiting for our turn at the first tee. What a crazy generation.
Nazi members were a small minority in Germany, but the average German got classified as a Nazi after the war. We know different, my Dad was there during and after the war. People are finally learning the truth.
No. The entire country was behind the regime. No significant resistance group existed, only isolated members. This revisionism shall stop. Evil can be banal, germans allowed their country to committ atrocities, the rest of Europe either turned their heads away or did the same. We should learn from the past, not saying "it was just a minority". I know this way it's scarier, but it is also true.
Funny, here in Sweden, the military still uses the MG42 (modified). The Germans were incredible at developing new technologies. To think that a machine gun that was designed in the 1940s is still in use and produced today should tell you how high the quality of German engineering really is.
I honestly don’t see how some country’s won’t use the MG42, it can so the same amount of damage as any Law, pkp, maybe with modern scopes and attachments, it can still be deadly
Да, немцы очень талантливые и умные люди. Во время войны много прорывных технологий открыли и воплотили их. Это видео пример воплощение этих технологий. Жаль лишь что война была такой долгой и такой ужасной, особенно для СССР
I read in a book once about when fighter pilots first encountered the ME262 and they all kept asking each other "what the hell is that?" They also talked about how it was able to shoot down planes and speed away too fast to engage, they were confused and amazed at the same time. I can't even imagine seeing something like that, how alien it must have been to them all.
Given that this thing was mostly used in a bomber interceptor role (where it did well for itself considering how badly outnumbered it was), they probably got used to it quickly.
You can say what you want about the Germans back then, but under the unpredictable pressure of war against the world to create these incredible developments makes them a unique nation.
@@kyle857 name me one *RELIABLE* assault rifle not even slightly based off of the STG-44's design. and no, the federov avtoshite does not count. it was garbage.
Thanks for filming these unique footage. There are only a few such aircraft left in the world, and to fly... it's a rarity. Thank you for letting me enjoy these wonderful footage of a piece of history.
it's an honour to see this awesome historical fighter from the Luftwaffe roaring in the sky over Europe after nearly 60 years...thank you for posting this video
c431inf 11b By that logic would it be honorable to watch a B-29 fly? It did drop the first atomic bomb after all,killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Jason have you ever seen photos of Horton Ho 229 or the Focke Wulf Ta-183? The Horton jet was the basis for stealth technology in the B-2 and you can see where the MiG-15 and F-86 came from when you look at the Ta-183. More advanced German designs can be seen at www.Luft46.com
TheReal Lifehacks yes but the germans noted the 229 had a very small radar signature, which is why the B2 was eventually designed to be a flying wing as well as the Americans did get that German research on the plane. So in a way the 229 led to the design of the B2.
Bit of real history... My grandfather was an ME262 pilot during WW2. He was shot down on Christmas Day 1944 over Holland by a Canadian Spitfire pilot. My dad only discovered what happened to him through a chance Google search on his father's name. Turns out the encounter had been documented in a book, and detailed on a web page dedicated to model aircraft enthusiasts. For over 55 years my father had no idea what had happened to his own father. Random or what?
Germans had the most badass engineers.. To make a MG42 was so new, then the Tiger Tank, then the 1St assault rifle the StG 44 .. And pretty much the top tier Planes, even submarines were top class.. Damnn
Why Germany did make a assault rifle it was not the first it was the first to take off as the Russians in the First World War made the Fedorov avtomat.
The Meteor was more or less, contemporary to the 262, and 4 YP80 were took in Europe, 2 in England, 2 in Italy. The common myth of the Germans being the only one to have jet fighters in WWII is quite inaccurate.
Germans stilll had the first working jet engine and the first working jet plane. Just the britians were able to compete at this time because Whittle experimented with jet engines at the same time. Ohain was just faster thats why germany was first. The british followed. Also interviews of british aircraft veterans proof that when they say like when they first saw this machine they could not tell what it is etc. So it was pretty much nearly a decade ahead of its time. Even if other nations had jet engine developement, too at the same time, they were less successfull and not as fast. Its just the same situation with Zuse. Americans think they invented everything and specially the PC bnut in fact it was conrad zuse with the first electromechanical computing machine using binarys. Pretty much almost a decade before eniac came. ENIAC is the first fully electric computer. But not the first. Things patriotic americans like to get wrong.
Dean the germans had some other Things to like the ho229 and me163;)btw the 262 is beautiful aircraft,How Good it Was i Dont care but its so Good looking!
+cyberpimp29 That one is a new-build Me-262. A fully restored WW2 original is testing for flight in the US with slightly improved engines, but the testing and flights are on hold at this time. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FPazuFQZE3o.html
In my opinion Me 262 was and still is the most beautiful jet fighter ever built. It`s a kind of piece of art joined with deadly weapon into still stunning beauty.
Oooohhh....it flew as if angels were pushing !!!!!....,never have I seen something so graceful and elegant...respect for ALL who have flown them in peace and in combat...
Correct. Beautiful aircraft, even today. A generation ahead, and mostly ready for combat in 1942/43, but delayed because Mr H. wanted them used as bombers not fighters. A decision that helped speed the Allies liberation of Europe from Mr H's tyranny.
@@brucestorey3400 Um no buddy. This is history channel level shit. The ME 262 in no way would have changed the war. Germany had very little oil, so planes and ground vehicles had to run with very low fuel reserves as early as 1943. Wunderwaffe cannot turn a war. Manpower, resources, and logistics can.
@@beurteilung713 Manpower, recources and logistic were also in Vietnam.Nevertheless, the United States lost in Vietnam. If your losses get too high, your population and politics will not longer play along Adolf Galland wrote that the ME 262 could have turned the air war.Despite enemy air superiority, his little Me262 test-unit achieved 24 victories in aerial combat during only 11 weeks, losing only three Me 262s against the Allied Air Force. And these Me 262s were not destroyed in the air but on the ground. In addition, Albert Speer wrote that it was his mistake not to put mass production in ground-to-air missiles, the technology was already there, instead too much effort was put into the V2
I saw an interview with a retired US pilot and when they saw the first ME 262 they said they didn't even know what it was. They said it was traveling so fast, their squadron must have looked like weather balloons to the 262 pilot.
Amazing technology back in the day. Beautiful design and practicality along with awesome speed and weaponry! Wonder what The Red Baron from WW I would have thought of this plane? I think he might have liked it.
Wait, for real? My grandfather was an engineer and worked on the V2 project in Peenemünde, there were definitely no aliens involved there! (and yes, my family has proof even though most of the V2 project is still classified)
They also had the market cornered on quantum physicists. They were already envisioning orbital space weapons/space stations and experimenting with exotic propulsion systems if Dr Joseph Farrel's research is correct.
Reality: Germany developed great technology by having an inherent genius. Africa could provide a good budget for scientists all they want, but all they'll invent is new ways to use poop in building.
My father fought in this war. He lost a lot of friends and only suffered a few minor wounds. He brought back a German Luger and a Walther-designed P38. Very cool to look at. The stories he told real bazaar. Completely different time. I'm proud of him and the ol guy is still living good at 93 soon to be 94. I hope I last as long as he does. He a great guy.
2 years ago I was in a local glider plane club here in Germany and one day an old member visited the airfield. Somebody told me that he flew the Bf 109 during the last months of WW2. I couldn't really imagine that because this time seemed so far away from today. Actually I didn't talk to him because he still seemed so untouchable, like a time traveller, I had too much respect to say anything but hello.. I just watched him the whole time talking to other members and tried to imagine how he looked like and what he has probably experienced. I think he passed last year. It was the first and probably last time I knowingly met a veteran.
I saw her live as a child on this exact ILA. Been 11 years old at that time and went there with my dad. Ever since thn I visited every ILA that was held ♥
Wahnsinn, über 4 Millionen Aufrufe!!!! Ein fantastische Beurkundung für Deine super schöne Arbeit, mein Freund! Respekt und mach bitte weiter so, Olli!!!!!!
Absolutely GORGEOUS and MAGNIFICENT aeroplane ✈️, especially considering it’s history, I’M SO HAPPY it has been preserved for the enjoyment of future generations ❤😍🥰
No. They were stripped, mocked, belittled in the end of the Great War, for their capabilities. That's the might of an entire angered human civilization who had nothing left to lose than not having vengeance on the entirety of europe. That's karma
@@sigma_frenchie4075 elsewise, what they did still wouldn't be justified vice versa to what happened to them, bad would never prevail, all things goes back to where they come from, till then in the end of world war 2 europe helped itself. And the grudge that was left on germany finally rested in peace. To where it deserves. Stalin died in vain, the berlin wall failed, soviet union fell, and the cold war was left to be gone. Now i wonder, what will be done next.
@@sigma_frenchie4075 Not just germany, several european country to, several years later, French was forced to get out from vietnam because of their ego to keep the colonialism after ww2, Netherland had to lost a lot of young soldier in indonesia war for independence, first and second military agression because netherland doesnt accept the indonesian freedom decleration.
I’ve always thought the Me262 was the most elegant looking of the early jets. Amazing to see one still around, let alone airworthy. I’d loved to have been there to see it in person.
+ kato64 It is one of five new-build examples. Four are flyable and one is static. At least two fly in the US. There is one WW2 original that has recently been restored to make short flights, but it is not flying at this time.
Ich fliege die Me262 als Simulation ja selber und muss sagen dass ist ein schwer beeindruckendes Flugzeug. Kaum vorstellbar dass so eine technische Konzeption zu dieser Zeit so umsetzbar gewesen ist. Aber sie ist dann irgendwann tatsächlich geflogen und ist unbestreitbar ein technischer Meilenstein in der Geschichte der Luftfahrt.
A lot of desperation propelled them so much further forward than everyone else. We were thinking about night-vision scopes on a backpack, jet engine planes and machine carbines (assault rifles), and saw a logistical nightmare. The Germans saw opportunity.
I disagree. They were miles behind on things that really mattered. Things like Radar, Huff Duff and intelligence gathering (Ultra) etc. They never made a heavy bomber that mattered. There production lines were inefficient compared to the allies. Finally they were behind on the atom bomb.
dulls I agree with you. History seems to have glamorised German technology of the war. Don’t get me wrong, they had some great innovations, but as dull correctly pointed out so did the allies and there was even more than mentioned. If you look at this aircraft and the engine it used - the British also considered the design type but rejected it due to the technology at the time making it inefficient, giving it a very short life span not making it practical whereas the British engine lasted months before an overhaul the one used in this aircraft lasted hours and then basically was destroyed. The British were also only months behind the Germans in their jet development and that was despite the neglected interest and funding. Again though the Germans were ahead in many area including the airframe.
To think that such a beautiful and futuristic machine existed in the early/mid 40's... That's...Wow... I can only imagine what it must have felt like for a pilot used to flying a ME-109 to sit in that new jet aircraft, feel the power, the noise of the jet engines and the superior speed...It must have felt unreal...
Many years ago, I had a discussion with a pilot of an F-6 which was the recon version of the P-51 Mustang. In late 1944 or early 1945 (He couldn't recall), he was flying a recon mission over Germany and he had a pair of aircraft streak by above him heading east. He had never personally seen anything like these planes so he figured they were a new type and important. He said he pinned the throttle to the stops and tried to catch them. He told me they left him like he was parked on the runway with the engine off. He later found out they were ME-262's. You could hear it in his voice, he was impressed.
@@gpdude22 He certainly would if his mission was complete and he was returning from it - Imagine how valuable any photographic pictures of any first encounters of a Me - 262 would be
Wonderful plane! Though I'm Mexican, I am very proud to have a German aunt through marriage. This jet is just one example of their brilliant minds. What impressed me is that it's not so damn noisy even on takeoff!
I always feel like this jet looks unique compared to other WWII aircraft of its day. it’s got a very interesting appearance with its triangular shaped fuselage and swept back wings. It musta looked like something out of this world to the allied pilot that first saw this
this is one of the best remembered ww2 planes that was built other than its high production costs and a few other issues it was a fairly decent fighter for example it was quick so was hard for allied aircraft such as bomber’s and their escort fighters to land a decent hit when under attack etc
It was an excellent bomber interceptor (because it could just zoom past all the escorts, attack, and leave before it could be attacked). In an engagement with Allies fighters, however, it wasn’t as good.
It’s suffered engine problems, because Hitler insisted on steering vital metals to the submarine program away from the jet engine program at a time when the submarine program was failing rapidly .
My father's unit, the 55th FG of the USAAF was transferred from Kaufbeuren to Giebelstadt to use the longer Me 262 runways when the 55th FG replaced its P-51D North American Mustangs with the P-80 Shooting Star in mid-1946. He can still remember clearly when a "factory pilot" buzzed the airfield on delivery. Everyone was amazed to see that "hot rock" fly. Thanks for sharing this video with everyone.
@Carl Pennington Britain declared war on Germany because Germany kept annexing other countries and Britain warned them that Poland would be the last straw.
I know it had to be restored, but I'm just pleased to know there is still a flying ME 262 around. I'm a fan of the OLD prop aircraft of the era. I can remember the switch over from prop to the jet age for passenger flight. The Lockheed Constellation used to fly over the house when I was REAL young, it wasn't too many years later you'd see/hear the jets going in & out.
JP Stone It surprises me though, because if I remember correctly, (on the rare occasion it got into an engagement,) it would come from a much higher altitude.
I dont know how much you know about ww2 era aircraft but they usualy have white under bellies. This one is not an exception. Camo is only aplied to the top of the aircraft.
Ist aber keine echte Me 262: der rumpf ist ein neubau und die motoren sind modern...ich denke niemanden is verrückt genug um die originelle motore zu benutzen...
Das stimmt leneanderthalien. Es gibt keine flugfähigen Originale mehr. Und wenn es sie gäbe würde sie niemand mit den alten Triebwerken fliegen wollen bzw. lassen. Es handelt sich bei der im Video zu sehenden Maschine somit in der Tat um eine völlig neugebaute Me 262 mit modernen GE Triebwerken.
Ändert nichts am Flugverhalten, solange die modernen Triebwerke die selbe Leistung haben. Tolles Video und schön eine ME 262 (Nachbau) noch mal in der Luft zu sehen.
+@ neilfleming2797 Several new Me-262 were constructed for customers and they fly with GE engines. One original restoration is planned to fly, although on hold at the moment.