Germany’s jet aircraft were a nasty shock to Allied bomber crews in 1944, as they flew by at incredible speeds tearing into their formations with deadly 30mm cannon fire. But these jets, Me 262s, weren’t the first German jet to take to the skies. Nor were they the second. And they wouldn’t be the last. Let me tell you all about the SEVEN Nazi jet aircraft.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:45 A German Jet Engine
01:28 Heinkel 178
02:48 Heinkel 280
05:26 Messerschmitt 262
06:40 Jet Combat
09:57 Arado 234
12:16 Fieseler 103 “Reichenberg”
13:46 Heinkel 162
16:12 Horton 229
17:46 Conclusion?
18:38 Outro
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Nice vid! My instructor in AME school @ YVR was a youth pilot for Heinkel in 1945, his war stories were amazing
An odd design feature of the Junkers 004 engine was how it started. They had a built in 10 horsepower two stroke gasoline engine to start the jets. The little holes in the nosecones of the engines had a pull ring for the ground crews to pull start the things just like a lawn mower.
Turns out "Superior German technology" wasn't all that superior…
Thank you.
Another great video
The first and second world wars were definitely the cross roads of old and new weapons tech. You still had some air forces flying biplanes in 1940 and by 45 jets, ejection seats and guided air to air rockets were firmly established.
Such revolutionary aircraft – the best of weapons for the worst of people.
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Im the 666 like 💀
Good content, thank you. Well done. And no mention of a certain rocket plane. Indeed
Where's the P-59?
Great video, excellent narration 👍
The allies who literally invented "terror bombing", and who nuked two civilian cities for no reason were willing to overlook the crimes of the luftwaffe. Lol. That's rich.
As a thought experiment, it would be interesting to consider how well the Me262 would've done in Korea- assuming that the engines were made reliable. I don't think that they'd of been up to the F-86 or MiG-15 standard, but I think that they'd of done better than the Meteors or P-80's- or any of the piston engine fighters…
The glue factory wasn't bombed. It was the victim of fires caused by an air raid in February 1943. The factory making the glue caught fire and all of the glue burned along with the instructions for making it.😊
Japanese tanks next video by any chance?
Excellent video!
One tiny thing is all. MK, in the names of guns like the MK 101, 103, and 108, stands for Maschinenkanone (machine cannon), not Mark. Other than that the video was fantastic!
the jets were nazis?
Good video!
You did miss 3 however that should be noteworthy:
The HS132 dive bomber which was nearing flight testing
The Ju 287 which did fly
And the messerschmitt p1101 which was also nearly complete
Also the MK in MK108 means maschinenkanone not mark
Good summary! The Luft '46 groups have lots of fascinating designs to debate, but the fact that there are do many of them highlights one of the issues with the Naxi system – poor control of effort, at a time when resources were shrinking rapidly.
Nazi jets were they ? Paid up members of the Nazi party? Like P51 mustangs were Democrat planes,
Spitfires were Conservative plans. What a ludicrous bloody concept.
VERY comprehensive! Tnx. alot👍🏻
The piloted V-1 was found at an establishment in the area of Reichenberg, Germany, and was then only an incomplete cockpit section.
A number were then built from V-1 parts for display, all without warheads or indeed anything in the nose in one case, as can be seen in the vid.
They are still displayed and discussed as if they were a future project, but the piloted V-1s work had been done and they had been broken up for parts, and were to be scrapped.
The suicide units mentioned were part of a project to build ramming aircraft to attack bombers en masse (usually Fw-190s), which was constantly lacking in both aircraft and pilots, not to mention fuel, as the idea was anathema to many Luftwaffe officers and engineers.
Another problem with the ME 262 is the original prototypes were tail draggers. The pilots had problems taking off because they couldn't get the tail to raise. A stopgap solution was on take off the pilots would tap bakes, and the nose would lunge forward enough to have air to be able to lift the tail. Redesigning a nose wheel landing gear to solve this problem was also another reason why production was delayed.
A 21 year old PHD student. Bro started writing his thesis at age 10.
Facinating coverage of obscure designs. Really well researched & polished delivery.
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Well done video, suffering from being far too short for the subject matter.
What was it they used to say about the Doodle-bug? Something like: "as long as you can hear it then there is no need to worry; as soon as you stop hearing it, panic!" 😬
Great video!
Good video, absolutely deserves the "like".
Oh no, Germany used some slave labor to build a few planes while Britain had a literal empire starving millions of indigenous peoples and the US were locking up anyone that looked oriental and firebombing anything that moved east of the Rhine… so our "wonder weapons" were more ethical.
The family name was Pabst von Ohain, not just von Ohain. Also he was physics student, not a PhD student, he made his Dr in physics, not his PhD, this title didnt exist in Germany at this time.
A good video BUT Me262 was never delayed by Hitler, that was only words from the Nazi Adolf Galland after the war…and was not true.
Not even one word about the fifty million murdered by the Commie swill across Russia and Eastern Europe!