One such “wunderwaffe” was the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world’s first functional jet aircraft.Though the plane was developed during the Second World War, the Germans understood the ...

At some time during the testing process, the standard fighter nose on FE-111 was swapped for a reconnaissance nose removed from FE-4012, a Messerschmitt Me 262A-la/U3. This aircraft was sent to the ...

The Luftwaffe's Messerschmitt Me 262 was a unique aircraft, but it didn't ultimately make a difference in WWII's outcome.

In summer 1944, the Nazis debuted one of the many advanced weapons they devised during World War II: the Messerschmitt Me 262. The Me 262 was the first operational fighter jet in history, and ...

One of the advantages the Allied jet fighter had over its German rival was in maximum altitude. The Me 262 Swallow couldn't fly over 37,565 feet, whereas the Meteor could reach over 43,000 feet.

The Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe, meaning Swallow, held in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum was captured in 1945 by a special U.S. Army Air Force team led by Col. Harold Watson.

The Me 262 – the World’s First Operational Jet-Powered Fighter – Design work on the Messerschmitt Me 262 began before the outbreak of the Second World War, ...

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe was the first German jet fighter used in World War II. Photo: Bettmann / Corbis 1942: The third prototype of the Messerschmitt 262 becomes the first true ...

NASM. With a top speed of 540 mph, Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262 was by far the fastest fighter of World War II.It was powered by jet engines, a new technology that was not always reliable. Still ...

Entering service late in the war, the Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe—German for “Sparrow”—was the world’s first operational ...

One such “wunderwaffe” was the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world’s first functional jet aircraft.Though the plane was developed during the Second World War, the Germans understood the ...