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Inside the Me-262 Jet Fighter
The Messerschmitt Me-262A-1 "Schwalbe" ("Swallow") was the first mass produced jet fighter in the world that entered combat. With its maximum speed of 540 mph this sleek bird outran every allied ...
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This Weird Fighter Got The First Air-To-Air Kill Of The Korean War
The German fielding of the Messerschmitt ME-262 at the Second World War’s close signaled the dawn of the jet-powered fighter. As the Korean War started, Air Force jets like the F-80 were ...
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76 years ago, the first jet fighter changed aerial combat forever, but it didn't do Hitler any good
Progress on the fighter was slow due ... to have shot down 542 Allied aircraft while losing only 100 jets. One German pilot later said that fighting in an Me 262 "was like being a god in a way." ...