ME-262 with original type engines

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What's the big deal you say? Well for one thing "they don't make those anymore." Many Euro warbirds with original radial engines now fly with US built engines, and likewise, some of the restored ME-109s fly with Brit V12's instead of the upside down German ones.

THE ORIGINAL JETS in a ME-262 WERE STARTED WITH a 2 stroke rope start piston engine!! Mounted---in the nose of the jet!!



 
Nice! Loved the look of that bad boy from day one. That is an awesome leap forward in aircraft. To late in the game to change anything, it was still a scary bird in the sky.
 
When i was a kid growing up my neighbor was an engineer for Martin Marrietta(sp?) outside Baltimore. One day I went over to ask him about mowing his grass and hanging in his office from the ceiling were 2 model airplanes. One was one of those German jets and the other was a big US bomber (can't remember which one). I asked about the planes and he told me that a month from the end of the war he was the radio man in one of those bombers. Suddenly the plane was hit by something and headed down inside Germany. He managed to get out of the wreckage and was hidden in a barn by an old German couple until the end of the war. Later the military pieced together that they had been downed by one of those jets which was so fast that they never saw it...
 
They used General Electric J85 motors on the ME 262s reproductions @ Boeing, Payne Field Everett, WA. Original Jumos were toast after 10 hours of flight.

BOB HAMMER RECALLS THE DAY ten 18-wheel tractor trailers dumped the pieces of five Messerschmitt Me 262 Stormbird jet fighter reproductions in a hangar near the city of Everett, Washington. The pieces had been trucked in from Texas, where an initial attempt to build the aircraft had ended in lawsuits. “Parts everywhere—parts, parts, parts,” says Hammer, a retired Boeing engineer. “You never saw such a mess.”
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Stormbird | Air & Space Magazine| Smithsonian Magazine
 
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