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Click baiting with a photo of the AR 234, poor taste! Also, the Me 262 prototype had conventional tail dragger) landing gear. Hitler forced the change to Tricycle gear when he demanded the 262 be a multi-role aircraft instead of a straight fighter. Lucky for the allies, that change delayed deployment. Had the original gone active when it was first built, the war might have gone quite different.

Good video. Well done

Well, stupid Hitler completely misused the 262 to be a bomber, not a fighter, and thereby saved the Allies.

It is basically an enlarged P-38.

TO much wrong info and showing german fighters shot down while talking about allied fighters.

Spirit of Hawaii also crashed

The video is completely inaccurate about the barely swept wing being chosen for high speed performance. Another TH-cam channel that doesn't do proper research and just regurgitates the usual uninformed narrative. On Feb 8 1940 there was a meeting on 262 project definition and construction status. Woldemar Voight, head of the M262 design team, stated in a later interview that that the reason for choosing the straight wing had nothing to do with high-speed aerodynamics: “BWM soon ascertained that is turbojet would be still larger and appreciably heavier than the company’s least sanguine revised calculations had suggested, thus presenting us with serious centre of gravity problems. Aircraft development had progressed too far for us to dramatically revise its layout and we were forced to introduce what we considered a somewhat inelegant ‘fix’ in the form of swept outer wing panels to resolve the CG difficulties presented by the heavier engines. Thus, it was to be purely fortuitous that the Me262 was to become the world first operational fighter featuring wing sweepback; a radical departure that, at this stage at least, reflected no attempt to reduce the effects of compressibility.” Dan Sharp's book contains documents illustrating that only the outer wing panels were swept to resolve this issue. It was much later that it was decided to extend the leading edge of the inboard panels to match the same minor sweepback angle. Much later on they there were experiments exploring the characteristics of more highly swept wings on the 262 wind tunnel models, but that was use of the 262 design as a base for research that had nothing to do with the design of the 262 then in production.

Thee wing sweep on the Me262 was not for aerodynamics, it was for weight an balance: They needed to get the aircraft CG farther aft without moving the CG of the engines.

When I was in the Air Force we called this plane Tweety Bird

Rarely have I seen anything with so much absolutely and obviously wrong information, what a waste! Channel blocked.

Inaccurate info. Wrong description of locations of parts of the fuselage. Pictures are not synchronized with dialogue.

Of the 1430 Messerschmitt Me 262 built, 542 where shot down with the claimed kills of 509 that is a 1:1 kill ratio.....to little, to late and not bloody good! Rule Britannia, then America got into the game....The Nazis didn't stand a chance!

bomber armour......what armour would that be.....the army helmets the crew wore?....

The airflow into the intake can not be supersonic if the aircraft is only capable of 540mph.

Always love the claim of the German who invented the engines, in fact it’s a stupid British Patent failure as Sir Frank Whittle designed and built both types of jet engines but the lack of £5 that the RAF refused to pay to keep the invention allowed Germany to acquire all drawings then take up a Patent of their own on the British design. Strangely they chose the most difficult and unreliable short life version. Whittle went on to prove the better design eventually sidelined by Rolls Royce and Bristol who were given the right by Government. Whittles Company eventually got swallowed by both manufacturers with RR eventually being given Bristol Engines.

I think it was overrated - at least over Europe. It was little faster or even slower than all German, late-war night fighters. The problem was she was too big. The twin-engined F7F Tigercat had slightly less powerful engines, similar range and identical firepower. But was almost 100 mph faster than the Black Widow. ☮

It was all political

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The nose gear retracted AFT into the fuselage, not forward!

B29 didn't exist yet. Bit of Over Kill for B17s.

The F106 did not have a capsule ejection seat. I spent 9 years at McChord AFB, 318th FIS, working on the Six.

Poorly researched and riddled with errors.

With 1500 of these monsters built they should have been able to sweep the skies but you know what they did they lost pilots after pilots after pilots until they were ultimately defeated. In reality the plane was nothing more than a hunk of junk. Have they had about five years to work out all of the bugs it might have been a formidable fighter. But America had something even better than fighter jets that had the atomic bomb.

yep, THE WIDOW WAS ONE BAD ASS NIGHT FIGHTER FOR SURE. 706 widows were made only 4 are left all in Museums. also 6 pilots became aces in it

If me-262 had entered the conflict any earlier, it would not have been necessary at all, because it would mean the naz!'s had been gods, which they were not. People refuse to realize that 262 was only possible because of what Germany had taken illegally up until that point. Whipping that b!tch together while the bombs of consequence were raining down around them, was the exact _goal_ of that war, luckily the allies beat them to it. The question of what happens when you leave a maniacal genius all alone to persecute and leverage a population has already been answered with "WW2."

Deciving thumbnail as it shows an Arado Ar234

Here it is 80 years later & this jet is still so beautiful.

Heard about this jet plane. As I understand it, the upper crust in the Nazi Government early on thought that WWII would have been done and finished in just a year or two. This plane was put on the back burner for a few years.

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Considering where Germany was when this was made plus Hitler's wrong decisions on how it was used, coupled with how unreliable the engines were...I doubt the ME262 'almost won WW2'...

I had a cousin who flew in the P61. He was shot down over Italy and he is buried in Italy.

What is this rubbish!!! Ever heard of the mosquito. Watch the fat electrician. Way better than this tripe.

Funny how the Avro Arrow was cancelled in Canada and all of a sudden the US has a delta interceptor. The Canadian government was weak and delusional to think the missile intercept systems that we were forced to pay for would actually work and that if they did would be better than an actual interceptor. Shame on Canada and Shame on the US for misleading and taking advantage of us.

Mosquito was excellent...but not at night.

Lt. Col. Richard O. "Dick" Stewart flew these in the 419th in the South Pacific. He first had a P-38J which he named "Elusive Susie" and had two confirmed kills. When the P-61s finally arrived, he of course named his "Elusive Susie II", but had no additional kills. A post-note: after he went back stateside, he went on a double-date in San Francisco right after V-J Day and found his elusive Susie in the other man's date. Her name was Susanne Sharp, and they were married for 69 years until he died in 2015. They were my parents.

When i was young, we had the Boeing 747 airplane

That's BS the brits had the beaufighter and the mosquito both heavily armed and with radar. So stop making up your own facts.

Had an uncle who flew on B58s at Little Rock Air Force Base. I believe his crew position was Defensive Systems Operator if I have term correct.He later flew in Vietnam on jets that jammed enemy radar. After retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel he went to work with the company that built the B2 Stealth Bombers

What a beautiful machine...

Put that doesn't look like dick rutan's Long easy

They should of NEVER stuck their nose in Canada's military works. But they would steel the best jet interseptor ever made. The Avro Arrow. Thieves all us military and government officials.

Did this plane participate in the war in Vietnam? 😐😐😐😐

What the REAL Legacy of the P-61 was, is in the Douglas SkyKnight two-man Jet fighter that downed Migs from Korea into Viet-nam....

The Mosquito was much better.

Should have aborted the take-off if they had trouble retracting the undercarriage, thankfully no lives were lost due to bad judgement,

The F-22 was overall a better bet. A little less risky in design. Afterall, these where supposed to be launched from aircraft carriers too.

One of the most advanced fighters of WWII, the P-61's direct contemporary with the German Luftwaffe would have been their Heinkel HE219 "UHU" ("Owl") Night Fighter. The P-61 and the HE219 were the only two aircraft in WWII that were designed specifically as night fighters and both aircraft were highly advanced and had on-board radar technology. After WWII, the USA took a captured German HE219 back to the United States for testing and evaluation. The aircraft still exist and it us undergoing restoration work at the Smithsonian Institutes National Air and Space Museum being one of the best (and last) examples of the HE219 UHU in existence today. The aircraft has been kept in climate controlled storage since WWII and is one of the worlds best examples of an HE219.

US daylight bombing raids weren't precision. They were indiscriminate carpet bombings.

This was a popular model airplane; built one myself. It came in gloss black and looked super cool, but the instructions had us paint the entire plane in matte black, and it looked awful. Threw it out. According to this video, it should have been gloss black anyway. I wonder if someone makes a better model. Super cool airplane though.

The YF 23 failed flight tests. You can see them on TH-cam. This guy doesn’t even know what he’s talking about.