On a quiet Virginia afternoon, the Military Aviation Museum‘s Messerschmitt Me 262 replica returned to the skies for the first time in over a decade. The museum's chief pilot, Mike Spalding, took off ...

While it wasn't the first jet-engined aircraft that flew, the ME-262 was the first operational jet-fighter. So many technical and political troubles struck its development that it began its career as ...

Wolfgang Czaia, the Whidbey Island test pilot for the Paine Field-based Me-262 Project, had the rare opportunity to fly the first authentic reproduction of the famous World War II German jet fighter.

Preface signed Michael S. Rice. "ME-262 A-1 pilot's handbook, by F.D. Van Wart, 1946": p.1-30.

Here’s What You Need to Know: Like its big brother the Me-262, the Kikka was too little, too late. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop combat jets in World War II. In truth, ...

Key Point: Like its big brother the Me-262, the Kikka was too little, too late. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop combat jets in World War II. In truth, while Germany had the ...

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, the ...