After more than a decade on the ground, the Military Aviation Museum's Messerschmitt Me 262 replica has taken flight once again. With its successful test flight at Suffolk Executive Airport, the ...

Watson's men brought the airplanes, including the Museum's Me-262, to Cherbourg, France, loaded them aboard the British aircraft carrier HMS "Reaper," and sailed to the United States. The NASM Me-262A ...

Nazi Germany's Me 262 fighter jet influenced later generations of U.S. military aircraft as the world's first operational turbojet aircraft.

Me 262 two-seaters were produced for training and night-fighting duties. It is believed that only 15 or so of the Me 262B-1a tandem two-seat trainers were converted into Me 262B-1a/U1 night fighters.

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 ...

All of this contributed to the Me 262's failure to have the impact it could have. In all, only around 300 of them actively saw combat, reports the National Museum of the United States Air Force ...

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In any case, the Me 262’s jet engines, being brand-new technology, had to be overhauled every few flight hours, or they would catastrophically fail. A Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a of Jagdgeschwader ...

Despite the damage it wrought on Allied aircraft, the Me 2626 was too little, too late. By 1944, Allied air power vastly outnumbered the Luftwaffe, making Me 262 victories statistically insignificant.

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was part of Nazi Germany's "Wunderwaffen" or "Wonder Weapon" program, but fizzled out before it made any real impact on the war.

British Museum opens to whole world after 262 years as it invites Street View indoors. The British Museum is the largest institution in the world to open its entire collection to Google Street View.