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, ...
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How the Me 262 became the first fighter jet, turbojet breakthroughs, failures, and wartime reality
The Me 262 was a new class of fighter, but its true revolution was the turbojet engine behind it, and the brutal limits of wartime materials, reliability, and training. From early prototypes and ...
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 ...
The most intriguing question, of course, is whether Japanese jets could have changed the outcome of the Pacific War had they been fielded in time. The best answer is to look at what happened to ...
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