Messerschmitt Me 262

pursued numerous projects of advancement for its new fledgling Luftwaffe, one of such being the pursuit of Jet propulsion and how to apply them to designs. One of the first of these combat designs with Jet engines was the Messerschmitt Me 262 “Schwalbe.” Messerschmitt’s Me 262 is widely known as

With the grace of a cat, twenty-one year old pilot Charles Yeager swung up to the cockpit of his P-51, calm and straight-faced. It was a practice he’d repeated at least a hundred times. After three months of combat, he was ready to go. He sat down, and swung the bullet-proof glass canopy down hard, making sure it would latch. Flipping a few levers, he roared the plane down the runway, expertly lifting the plane off the ground. The rest of his flight formation had already taken off. He was stationed

OF A SUPERWEAPON: MESSERSCHMITT 262 3 The Death of a superweapon: The Messerschmitt 262 World War 2 took place in less than ten years but leaped in technological advancement. The drastic change in weaponry from the start of the war to the end was unparalleled to any other time in history. Not only did the weaponry change but also the way we fought or tactics used had to change to combat all the new kinds of threats that these weapons brought to the battlefield. All nations

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change their center of gravity in flight when applicable, mainly due to alternative landings (Westland Pterodactyl IV, n.d). Soon after the Pterodactyl did not go into production Messerschmitt, a German aircraft manufacturing company, created Project 1101. During Project 1101 Messerschmitt took similar designs from their Me 262 and added adjustable wing sweep. You could not adjust the wing sweep of the P.1101 V1 but you could adjust it's wing angle on the ground before flight to 30, 40

shot .50 caliber Brownings bullets and had a 20mm cannon inside the twin propellers (Aircraft MAchine Guns of WWII). The B-17 Bomber had as many as 13 .50 caliber machine guns mounted all over the plane (Aircraft Machine Guns of WWII). The Messerschmitt ME 262 on the other hand shoots 30 by 90mm explosive tipped bullets (650 bullets per minute) and it can take out a B-17 with just 4 hits (Aircraft Machine Guns of WWII). United States Air Force Mottos says “Libertatem Defendimus” meaning Liberty We

The Jet Engine has been around for more than eighty five years, and is seen in many crucial functions of our day to day lives. Yet few people realize the truly immense effect it has played in advancing technology, supporting our prosperous lives, and opening up the entire globe to commerce, exploration, and travel. The birth of the jet engine dates backs to the early 1930’s, before that the propellor driven aeroplane was the only means for traveling in the air, and engineers in that time were beginning

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WWII Battle of the Bulge On December 16, 1944 in Germany the Nazi’s mounted a surprise attack against the Allies it was the last offensive of the Nazi’s. Who was involved in the Battle of the Bulge? The war was Allied against the Axis powers Allied powers were made up of Great Britain, The Soviet Union, and The United States of America. The Axis powers consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Of those countries only The United States and Great Britain for the Allies and Germany and Italy fought in

The rise of the military-industrial complex of Germany from 1933 until its demise in April 1945 was built on manipulation and greed. The Nazis manipulated the great industrial combines of Germany to the profits to be gained in the pending rearmament program. Hitler and his inner sanctum created the ultimate crony capitalistic state; emphasizing greed for power and fortune. Hitler present himself and the party as the final barrier against Russian Bolshevism. Hitler’s adept manipulation of these