ME-262

terdferg23

terdferg23

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I was flying back from DTO and heard an ME-262 contact OKE City Approach. I saw him about 2 miles off my left wing. All communication broke down over the freq. Everyone including the controller was asking the guy questions. Never thought I'd be flying in the same vicinity of one, only read about them. Found out there only 3 left that are operational. Would have snapped a pic, but never got close enough to get one decent enough for anyone to appreciate. Right before I switched over to tower a P-51 checked in. Anyways, I thought it was definitely cool to see one air to air.
 
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First jet powered fight ever created
 
I'm going to assume they don't have the original engines...apparently they had a tendency to go all grenadey on you at the slightest provocation. Nevertheless, very cool experience!
 
terdferg23 said:
Found out there only 3 left that are operational.
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The three flyable 262s are new builds based off of the original WW2 plans. There are no flyable WW2 examples anywhere.

The reproduction aircraft have GE J85 engines, and a beefed up landing gear.
 
I saw one last month at the Addison airport. It was doing a fly by with a P-51 and I know it may sound silly, but that really made my day!
 
Boris Badenov said:
I'm going to assume they don't have the original engines...apparently they had a tendency to go all grenadey on you at the slightest provocation. Nevertheless, very cool experience!
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Wait I thought that was the Komet? Either way the OP had a great ME-262 vs P51 experience!
 
Boris Badenov said:
I'm going to assume they don't have the original engines...apparently they had a tendency to go all grenadey on you at the slightest provocation. Nevertheless, very cool experience!
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You're right. I talked to the pilot yesterday. It's a replica, with a lot of original parts. In his words "may not be totally original, but its damn close"
 
USMCmech said:
The three flyable 262s are new builds based off of the original WW2 plans. There are no flyable WW2 examples anywhere.

The reproduction aircraft have GE J85 engines, and a beefed up landing gear.
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I want to buy the tooling and jigs for the p-51. Make new ones. I imagine you'd be up to your eyeballs in orders. Not sure what I'd do for an engine... maybe there are still some RR Merlin engines in crates somewhere. You can still buy a brand new crated R985 so....
 
That two-seater 262 looks really odd. I assume that's a modern invention. Another interesting factoid: the first 262s were tail-wheel.
 
z987k said:
I want to buy the tooling and jigs for the p-51. Make new ones. I imagine you'd be up to your eyeballs in orders. Not sure what I'd do for an engine... maybe there are still some RR Merlin engines in crates somewhere. You can still buy a brand new crated R985 so....
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Roush has all the engine tooling for the Merlins, actually saw them testing new one the other day to put into a 51 that came in a week or so ago. Merlins are awesome, but testing it wide open on the back of a flatbed truck 8hrs a day for two weeks right next to our facility got to be unbearable. Someone asked the lead mechanic in his hangar what the total engine build was going to run after installation... he said somewhere north of $500,000.
 
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