This is amazing, I did not realize there are still functioning Me-262s in the world today! Wow, I didn't realize how much feedback this comment would get lol. Just wanted to say that I see it's a repro aircraft now. Thanks for the insights everyone!
@@spinnetti They are GE CJ610s from the Learjet class. The plane is still over-powered with the GEs so power settings to mimic the original Jumo turbines are used, with available reserve. Replica engine nacelles were constructed to mount the 610s, both for appearance and to keep the correct weight and CG for the aircraft.
My father flew 34 missions in a B17, stormy weather, over Germany in 43 and 44. He didn't talk about it much, wouldn't. But once I asked him if he ever shot at or saw one of the Germany jet fighters. He said he did, but that they were so fast, that all he could do is spray bullets ahead of them. Said he never got one.
@@zaynevanday142don’t quote me, but I think after 25 missions it was optional. I can assume that those in bombers who did 25+ missions had reasons to keep going such as wanting to see the war to its end.
You can really see how wobbly and slower responding the controls are compared to later generation jets. It was so fast compared to the opponents that it didnt need to dogfight, could climb and dive at will.
The controls aren’t really slow just heavy and the wobble is probably Dutch roll caused by the swept wing and smaller vertical fin and rudder. With swept wings the air will flow across and spanwise or across and outward at lower speeds causing that phenomenon. Northrop had a electronic yaw damper for the autopilots figured out in the late 1940s. Beautiful engineering.
Was sorta the whole issue with early jets, they realized you're going so fast you don't have the fine control or time to even line up a shot. At a certain point human reaction time just isn't enough compared to BVR, sensors, radar, etc.
This string is a bend meter or turn coordinator. It shows whether the directional rudders are swung correctly in relation to the ailerons. It is correct when it lies parallel to the aircraft axis. If it is tilted left or right in a turn, it means that there is a slip or yaw. The string is very often used in gliders. The beginning of learning to fly gliders is all about coordinating the correct leanings.
@@Wilhelm4131 It's a classic combat flight simulator game, bearing the name of the iconic ground attack aircraft. And doesn't matter if that Russian plane in an entirely different category was slow, it was heavily armored and there was tens of thousands of them lol
There were significant problems with engines flaming out in rolls, rocket racks losing electrical power, and being shot down on the long, slow takeoff run.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Now let's talk about the problems with USA, Britain, Soviets ect. Ohhhh wait, you won't because that list would be significantly longer.
I've flown this in a flight simulator before. I'm not a real pilot, but after seeing this, it just makes me realize how awesome flight simulators are these days. Took me a while to tell that this was real and not a simulation.
You have to imagine that the world's first jet aircraft was built by the Germans in the 1940s. At that time, my grandfather was still plowing the fields with his team of oxen. It's crazy how far ahead the German armaments engineers were of the time.
It it said that the nazis got technological help from the (Nordic) aliens. After the war Operation High Jump wit Admiral Byrd tried to conquer the Nazi base in Neuschwabenland (Arctic) but got their @$$es kicked by flying causers that emerged from the ocean. Look it up.
World's first jet was built by the British in the 30s. They also beat the Germans to the punch with the Meteor in service a few months ahead of the 262, but they never sent them over Europe due to fears of capture.
He probably plowed his field with Oxen cause it was more cost effective then buying a tractor. Which he probably didn’t need depending on how much land he had. Germany was still using horses to move supplies cause they were terrible at making trucks during the war.
@@regencyrow1867This string is a bend meter or turn coordinator. It shows whether the directional rudders are swung correctly in relation to the ailerons. It is correct when it lies parallel to the aircraft axis. If it is tilted left or right in a turn, it means that there is a slip or yaw. The string is very often used in gliders. The beginning of learning to fly gliders is all about coordinating the correct leanings.
@@stefanrath664 To be the right side if win or become the evil side if lose. Imagine being stupid enough to analyze history with contemporary morality.
Idk why but i find this really relaxing to listen to. Also i used to hear sounds like what you can hear while the 262 is in the air whenever i was on the verge of falling asleep when i was younger
SO COOOL!! I remember playing _Chuck Yeager's Air Combat_ back in the '90s. Toward the end of the WW2 campaign, the player encounters a couple of these... while flying a P-51. Just no catching up wth 'em, if they decide to scoot. I always wished the '262 were actually user flyable - back then, 30 years ago, if you wanted something like the awesome video above, it pretty much came down to **maybe** one or two primitive flight-sims or some of the scant, blurry, black-and-white footage that turned up in the rare kind of WW2 documentary to dig beyond a cursory mention of the Messerschmitt, usually breezed by as part of a rapid-fire tally of some of the more successful projects from the grab-bag of the innovative, the bizarre, and the absurd "wunderwaffe," in the closing minutes of a doc that had no reason to put any effort or runtime toward something only aviation geeks cared about. I'm just so happy to finally get a real peek at the experience of driving a Storm Bird. In modern HD, no less! Adding to the cool factor, to learn from this video that there even _is_ a non-zero number of currently operable, flying Me 262s? Plus, it can be flown, using - **not** some ultra-caustic, lost-to-time unobtanium - but that those Jumos spin up on something even remotely available, in the U.S., *in 2023?* _And, one was just recently flying over Houston?!_ I'm practically glowing! Thank you for the upload.
They aren't jumos, they're GE engines adapted from a Learjet. It's one from a run of only 5 replicas, however they're extremely faithful down to even having the exact same CG as the original airframe.
Awesome footage. Looks like it could really use a yaw damper - typical undamped swept wing aircraft side to side nose movement, based on my limited experience with the thing switched off!
I once flew as a patient in a small ambulance aircraft and it did yaw like that from side to side to much larger degree then in this video... Never experienced that before in any aircraft.
Wow! The one that started it all! German engineering! I can not imagine allied air Corps seeing something this from their piston powered aircraft! The pilot of one of these must have been awe struck!
@@mikeycraig8970 You know what he means, stop acting like youre 12 and your dad works in Nintendo. Germans made the 1st pretty much proper jet fighter, everybody else just stole their stuff and moved from that.
I volunteer at the Wings Over Houston Airshow every year, whenever this plan is flying, I stop what I am doing and watch it, amazing plane and technology
I lived 5 miles from Ellington Field and went to the Wings Over Houston Airshow every year until I moved away to college. My house has been torn down and there's a concrete business where it once was. I spent a lot of time in Ellington Field as a Civil Air Patrol cadet back in the mid-80's. Nice to the see the place again, especially through the cockpit of a 262. Thanks.
@@PYROWORKSTVironically, the me262 featured in this video isn’t German, it’s an American reproduction with General Electric engines. Look up the “me262 project”.
Magnifique vidéo. Je n'avais jamais vu un vol de Me 262 de l'intérieur mais que des vidéos de l'extérieur. Quelle technologie de l'époque avec ses pilotes d'essais sur ces inovations sans compter le Horten IX, l'Arado B 234, JU 287.
Imagine you are a B-17 gunner and this German Me 262 fighter jet comes flying towards you at 900 km/h and opens fire with its four 30 mm MK108 cannons.
My Dad at the end o the war remembers seeing one and was so excited. He was used to seeing 109's, Heinkels,etc but the Me-262 blew him away as he didn't really know what he was seeing.
Great to see people appreciating this and not hating on because it was an unlucky time period for the people who engineered it. Like the Russian planes, people hate on them because they are Russian. But that doesn’t mean anything. What matters is that they are all amazing on their own way
Thank you so much Rick Sharpe for this flight in an ME262. Amazing …. Almost like being in it myself. This old man is very thankful. Take care, and be safe. 😃🙂👏🏼👍🏼👏🏼👍🏼👋🏼🙏🏼
What’s great is how rickety this handles and has sound to back it up. Thanks for that. I can’t imagine being in this thing with the constant roar after having experience with prop fethering
N262az is a ME262 replica. It had a crash landing in 2003. Post accident inspection of the aircraft's left main gear hydraulic system revealed that the hydraulic actuator locking slide was undersized which allowed the gear to collapse (unlock) when placed under a load.
+@TheOne-xh4ol It had main gear collapse and punch through the wing on a test flight. Though the info I originally read was it was a flaw from when the Me-262 switched to tricycle gear configuration, so they reengineered the main gear mounts to make them stronger.
+@fw1421 The project that built the new Me-262s intentionally limited them to five examples as a business decision. They would still have the jigs and data for any repairs.
@@bigmart932 The limit was a guarantee to buyers that the planes would hold their value. And realistically there is a timeline and there were not going to be many customers for this type of aircraft.
@@bigmart932 I think that they actually had trouble selling the last few. I remember Michael Dorn looking into buying one, but I don't think that he ever did.
EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT THE ORIGINAL ENGINES, THE STRUCTURE IS THE ORIGINAL. THE SOUND OF THE VIBRATION OF THE METAL IN THE AIR INTAKE OF THE TURBINE IS WONDERFUL.
@@fn3048 yes 100% new build replica, they used an original Me 262 to copy from. The Willows Grove's old front gate static display Me 262 from WWII. Which is in Pensacola now if anyone wants to see it.
Saw one of these at the airpower here in austria, amazing birds, can't even imagine seeing them from the ground during a war, even just seeing them as a spectator makes you feel absolutely powerless.
This must certainly be one of the 5 replicas built by American private individuals of the "American Me 262 Project" from 2003, a variant of the single-seater Me 262 A-1c. Nice flight :)
I saw one of this Me262 in Linz Hörsching Austria 🇦🇹in January 2018 in a hangar of our Air force. The maintained the turbines there. As it startet I saluted as good I could! Greetings an old but very fit Sergeant Major from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
Sensational video, sensational aircraft, what a privilege to ride along with the pilot. Thank you so much for posting (and for not adding music which can be such a distraction).
I visited a client in her home circa 1982. On a sideboard was an open photo album featuring ME-262 aircraft, an American Officer, and German military , recently surrendered. He husband, then deceased, was an american officer of German or Swiss heritage, assigned to oversee the captured ME-262 Aircraft, along with what could be gathered of their ground crews. This was in Portland Oregon.
80 years ago this was the absolute pinnacle of badassery. Politics aside, if this was YOU in the cockpit back then, that meant that you=pure distilled badass
I’m aware of the stats of top speed of P51, P38, Spitfire, ME262, etc & I’ve seen cockpit videos … but the speed & maneuverability of the 262 is just remarkable!
you can see the dutch roll in this view, must have been a big change to get used to when going from straight winged fighters to the first swept wings. makes me thankful for series yaw dampners!
Heyo Rick, I want to say thank you so much for uploading this video for us to watch. I was wondering if this is your bird or if you personally know the owner of the ME 262. I would very much like a recommendation on where to possibly find/source a BMW 003-E1 or E2 engine (assuming it's even possible) for a full size HE-162 build I am going to be starting in 2025. If not, I might have to downscale to 1/2 or 1/3 size
+@death99ification Your best option to source a BMW 003 engine is to have something that a museum will trade for if they have one in storage. I'm seeing about 15 BMW 003s worldwide, and some are cut open. There are probably a few more in dusty storage or private collections. Russia manufactured copies of the BMW 003 as the Klimov RD-20 if you have any Russian/Chinese contacts.
Imagine being capt Yeager flying over that runway with aa and a me 262 in sight then Germany proceeded to get its ground transport units koed which pretty much made it useless. Amazing video btw
@@thecomedypilot5894 It's exactly that, it shows yaw instead of having a turn/slip indicator or "ball." The yaw string was still being used on the U-2 into the late 90s/early 2000s.
@@thecomedypilot5894 the first flight instrument ever invented was the yaw string, used by the wright brothers, still used to this day by glider pilots and some twin pilots, and jets in this instance. provides real and accurate data about the slipstream instantly and tell it to you while looking outside vs being an indoor pilot.
Awesome first person view footage. I'd be interested to know if there were any modern day improvements to enhance flight handling characteristics aside from fixes to the original landing gear and engine designs (I am not a pilot so I can't tell from the visuals).
+@tubewatcher It is a new construction Me-262 with GE turbines. There were fixes to the landing gear, and modern brakes and instrumentation. New horizontal stab trim is used because an original unit could not be certified for flight. The GE's are mounted in replica nacelles for the original look and original weight and balance requirements. This Me-262 is not structurally improved or enhanced, so the same flight parameters apply. It is actually over-powered with the GE turbines, so reduced power settings are used to keep the same performance, with reserve performance available. The FAA restricted it to 500 mph over safety concerns from wartime notes.
Also, thank you for NOT ruining this video by adding music.
Or needless talking!
Shut up nerd
Amen. I agree with you both.
The engines are already music
The pilot’s listening to ‘Erika’ on his headphones… 🙂
This is amazing, I did not realize there are still functioning Me-262s in the world today!
Wow, I didn't realize how much feedback this comment would get lol. Just wanted to say that I see it's a repro aircraft now. Thanks for the insights everyone!
This is one of five reproduction 262s built in the 1990s and early 2000s.
@@coldsamon The turbines in the modern Me-262 are not Junkers Jumo 004!
@@joseveintegenario-nisu1928 That was never claimed, they are GE CJ-610-8A's in the reproductions, but they are still in the "original" Jumo housing.
@@joseveintegenario-nisu1928 GE I think, and derated for this application.
@@spinnetti They are GE CJ610s from the Learjet class. The plane is still over-powered with the GEs so power settings to mimic the original Jumo turbines are used, with available reserve. Replica engine nacelles were constructed to mount the 610s, both for appearance and to keep the correct weight and CG for the aircraft.
Imagine going from an FW190 or BF109 into the 262 for the first time. Must have been amazing for the pilots.
...and scary. As far as I know, it wasn't easy to make the switch and even some experienced pilots died in training accidents.
It flew “…as though the angels were pushing…”
@@BigGoucho...Adolph Galand's comment after his first flight
@@philgiglio7922 good man. For bonus points who said ".... it was like riding a cannon ball...." and what aircraft were they talking about? 🙂
@@BigGoucho
ME163
My father flew 34 missions in a B17, stormy weather, over Germany in 43 and 44. He didn't talk about it much, wouldn't. But once I asked him if he ever shot at or saw one of the Germany jet fighters. He said he did, but that they were so fast, that all he could do is spray bullets ahead of them. Said he never got one.
I thought they got sent home if they survived 25 missions ?
@@zaynevanday142don’t quote me, but I think after 25 missions it was optional. I can assume that those in bombers who did 25+ missions had reasons to keep going such as wanting to see the war to its end.
he was a terrorist. killed millions of german civilians
@@zaynevanday142It originally was 25 missions but as casualty rates started dropping late in the war, they changed it to 30 then finally 35.
LOVE the shadow on the ground at 7:45 and the perfect landing. Amazing.
Agreed
You can really see how wobbly and slower responding the controls are compared to later generation jets. It was so fast compared to the opponents that it didnt need to dogfight, could climb and dive at will.
It can’t dog fight it turns like a boat
@@TinyBearTim dogfighting doesnt mean "horizontal turns only"
my dad was on B-24s in WW2 , he told me they were too fast for the turrets to track , scared them pretty good.
The controls aren’t really slow just heavy and the wobble is probably Dutch roll caused by the swept wing and smaller vertical fin and rudder. With swept wings the air will flow across and spanwise or across and outward at lower speeds causing that phenomenon. Northrop had a electronic yaw damper for the autopilots figured out in the late 1940s. Beautiful engineering.
Was sorta the whole issue with early jets, they realized you're going so fast you don't have the fine control or time to even line up a shot. At a certain point human reaction time just isn't enough compared to BVR, sensors, radar, etc.
That bit of string is a drift indicator, we had them on old Alouette II and III helicopters, worked surprisingly well....
This string is a bend meter or turn coordinator. It shows whether the directional rudders are swung correctly in relation to the ailerons. It is correct when it lies parallel to the aircraft axis. If it is tilted left or right in a turn, it means that there is a slip or yaw.
The string is very often used in gliders. The beginning of learning to fly gliders is all about coordinating the correct leanings.
My favourite flight instrument but it doesn't look like it's ehaving on this plane. or is it?
erm behaving
My first time seeing it in person was about a year ago, but they also had it at the most recent show. Majestic piece of engineering.
Had a friend who was in the Luftwaffe in WW2. He flew the ME 109 in the Battle of Britain. Then the ME 262 near the war's end.
damnnnn, did he ever do an interview?
What was his name? Do you know which squadron?
Damn. I didn't think I'd ever see that cockpit view outside of a IL2 Sturmovik in-game rendering!
all time classic game
best game
Inferior Russian aircraft
@@Wilhelm4131 It's a classic combat flight simulator game, bearing the name of the iconic ground attack aircraft.
And doesn't matter if that Russian plane in an entirely different category was slow, it was heavily armored and there was tens of thousands of them lol
@@Wilhelm4131 still won the war. There are more original Il-2´s around today than 262´s ;)
The first pilots to take these to combat must have felt like they had a chance to win the war
There were significant problems with engines flaming out in rolls, rocket racks losing electrical power, and being shot down on the long, slow takeoff run.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver The Germans had poor materials at this stage of the war, and they suffered from that, especially when it came to the engine.
@@hb9145materials AND good factory workers (ie not slaves who saboutaged a lot) AND jet-turbine experienced ground crew/mechanics
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Now let's talk about the problems with USA, Britain, Soviets ect. Ohhhh wait, you won't because that list would be significantly longer.
@@lanthanumlanthanium6373 What problems were the Allies having with aircraft production in WWII?
I've flown this in a flight simulator before. I'm not a real pilot, but after seeing this, it just makes me realize how awesome flight simulators are these days. Took me a while to tell that this was real and not a simulation.
Yes. I am a flight simmer too but this is amazing. A bit scary.
It is a sim 😂
@@markrix No, it isn't. It's a replica Me-262 at an airshow in Houston. You can see the pilot's hands touching the controls from time to time.
@@markrixNo lol
You have to imagine that the world's first jet aircraft was built by the Germans in the 1940s. At that time, my grandfather was still plowing the fields with his team of oxen. It's crazy how far ahead the German armaments engineers were of the time.
It it said that the nazis got technological help from the (Nordic) aliens. After the war Operation High Jump wit Admiral Byrd tried to conquer the Nazi base in Neuschwabenland (Arctic) but got their @$$es kicked by flying causers that emerged from the ocean. Look it up.
World's first jet was built by the British in the 30s. They also beat the Germans to the punch with the Meteor in service a few months ahead of the 262, but they never sent them over Europe due to fears of capture.
@@BenjoKazooie64 Heinkel HE 178 was the first jet ever built.
@@BenjoKazooie64Do you really feel the need to copy and paste that same lie in every comment?
He probably plowed his field with Oxen cause it was more cost effective then buying a tractor. Which he probably didn’t need depending on how much land he had. Germany was still using horses to move supplies cause they were terrible at making trucks during the war.
It's amazing to me that one of the most important instruments in and on the aircraft is a string on the nose.
I just thought it was distracting. What does it do?
@@regencyrow1867
it shows you the way the air is moving around the plane
@@regencyrow1867This string is a bend meter or turn coordinator. It shows whether the directional rudders are swung correctly in relation to the ailerons. It is correct when it lies parallel to the aircraft axis. If it is tilted left or right in a turn, it means that there is a slip or yaw.
The string is very often used in gliders. The beginning of learning to fly gliders is all about coordinating the correct leanings.
So that's what the ME262 pilots experienced flying their machines. Awesome.
Just another testament of the brilliance of German innovation and engineering.
Ja das ist richtig, aber für welchen Zweck!
@@stefanrath664 To be the right side if win or become the evil side if lose. Imagine being stupid enough to analyze history with contemporary morality.
It’s not contemporary morality. It was widely recognized as evil in its own era.
@@jacobkapplan4770 You really didn't get it ....
British were still first.
Idk why but i find this really relaxing to listen to.
Also i used to hear sounds like what you can hear while the 262 is in the air whenever i was on the verge of falling asleep when i was younger
This is the icing on the cake! Saw this flight as a spectator on the ground and was super excited to see it fly!
After all these years I always wondered what these aircraft were like from the cockpit view. Thanks for sharing that. Cheers.
SO COOOL!! I remember playing _Chuck Yeager's Air Combat_ back in the '90s. Toward the end of the WW2 campaign, the player encounters a couple of these... while flying a P-51. Just no catching up wth 'em, if they decide to scoot. I always wished the '262 were actually user flyable - back then, 30 years ago, if you wanted something like the awesome video above, it pretty much came down to **maybe** one or two primitive flight-sims or some of the scant, blurry, black-and-white footage that turned up in the rare kind of WW2 documentary to dig beyond a cursory mention of the Messerschmitt, usually breezed by as part of a rapid-fire tally of some of the more successful projects from the grab-bag of the innovative, the bizarre, and the absurd "wunderwaffe," in the closing minutes of a doc that had no reason to put any effort or runtime toward something only aviation geeks cared about.
I'm just so happy to finally get a real peek at the experience of driving a Storm Bird. In modern HD, no less! Adding to the cool factor, to learn from this video that there even _is_ a non-zero number of currently operable, flying Me 262s? Plus, it can be flown, using - **not** some ultra-caustic, lost-to-time unobtanium - but that those Jumos spin up on something even remotely available, in the U.S., *in 2023?* _And, one was just recently flying over Houston?!_ I'm practically glowing!
Thank you for the upload.
They aren't jumos, they're GE engines adapted from a Learjet. It's one from a run of only 5 replicas, however they're extremely faithful down to even having the exact same CG as the original airframe.
I would rather be lucky 🍀 then good any day 👍🏼. What a great game that and LHX attack chopper.
What engines are installed? 🤷♂️ hardly a Jummo, maybe something modern and similar in thrust ?
What a truely incredible machine 🤩! Particularly when you think about how old it is!
It's about 25 years old :)
It must have been something to take off in one of these back in 1944-45...
Not to mention trying to get back down in one piece.
That is jus the coolest thing ever. An airworthy ME262 from the cockpit in modern times. Thank you for sharing this.
WOW, THAT REALLY PUTS A SMILE ON MY FACE 😊. Love to see an old bird that's still airworthy. THANKS FOR POSTING
Great vid, good to see this important historical aircraft still flying. Thanks for sharing.
@@jonathanparle8429 Thanks for the info. Do you know what they are using for the powerplants? Thanks.
@@fleuger99some one in other posts said were GE from a learjet
@@PatricioGarcia1973 Thanks :)
@@fleuger99 GE CJ610
Awesome footage. Looks like it could really use a yaw damper - typical undamped swept wing aircraft side to side nose movement, based on my limited experience with the thing switched off!
I only fly sims and was wondering what that was. I really wanna fly...
I noticed that too.
I once flew as a patient in a small ambulance aircraft and it did yaw like that from side to side to much larger degree then in this video... Never experienced that before in any aircraft.
Man muss die ME-262 wirklich mal live ansehen und drumherum gehen. Ist wirklich beeindruckend. Hier steht eine im Landesmuseum München.
Wow! The one that started it all! German engineering! I can not imagine allied air Corps seeing something this from their piston powered aircraft! The pilot of one of these must have been awe struck!
The Frank Whittle jet started it all. Not this.
@@mikeycraig8970 You know what he means, stop acting like youre 12 and your dad works in Nintendo.
Germans made the 1st pretty much proper jet fighter, everybody else just stole their stuff and moved from that.
@@sam8742 Close 2nd, ill give you that, but still not the 1st one.
Heinkel HE 178 was the first flying jet
Well ... lets just say the He 178 started it .
Pabst von Ohain developed the engine for it.@@mikeycraig8970
I volunteer at the Wings Over Houston Airshow every year, whenever this plan is flying, I stop what I am doing and watch it, amazing plane and technology
That sound 😌😌 I could listen to it all day
I lived 5 miles from Ellington Field and went to the Wings Over Houston Airshow every year until I moved away to college. My house has been torn down and there's a concrete business where it once was. I spent a lot of time in Ellington Field as a Civil Air Patrol cadet back in the mid-80's. Nice to the see the place again, especially through the cockpit of a 262. Thanks.
WOW! this thing was made in the 40s and nothing has fell off it unlike the 737 Max...
German vs American quality 👌
@@PYROWORKSTVironically, the me262 featured in this video isn’t German, it’s an American reproduction with General Electric engines. Look up the “me262 project”.
this was made in the 2000s by americans. So both of you are wrong :P
@@MrSchwabentier So they stolen the idea from the Germans, SHAME ON THE USA!
Love the yaw string. Best slip/skid indicator there is.
1943. Jet fighter. Swept wings. Aerodynamic bullet shape. Blended liftbody fuselage. Talk about ahead of its time...
Magnifique vidéo. Je n'avais jamais vu un vol de Me 262 de l'intérieur mais que des vidéos de l'extérieur. Quelle technologie de l'époque avec ses pilotes d'essais sur ces inovations sans compter le Horten IX, l'Arado B 234, JU 287.
Imagine you are a B-17 gunner and this German Me 262 fighter jet comes flying towards you at 900 km/h and opens fire with its four 30 mm MK108 cannons.
Gave me flashbacks of the ol MS Combat Flight Simulator. Such a iconic and beautiful aircraft
imagine how many spiders those engines can suck in
@@davidbosiljlmao 💀💀💀
My Dad at the end o the war remembers seeing one and was so excited. He was used to seeing 109's, Heinkels,etc but the Me-262 blew him away as he didn't really know what he was seeing.
Great to see people appreciating this and not hating on because it was an unlucky time period for the people who engineered it. Like the Russian planes, people hate on them because they are Russian. But that doesn’t mean anything. What matters is that they are all amazing on their own way
It's actually very rare and nice footage, thank you for sharing, I enjoyed watching it.
Love the string for yaw indication.
Wonderful footage! It seems to be a bit unstable in the roll axis.
I have a new appreciation for bubble canopies.
The absolute madness of restoring something as needlessly complex as an ME-262 is astounding.
Thank you so much Rick Sharpe for this flight in an ME262. Amazing …. Almost like being in it myself. This old man is very thankful. Take care, and be safe. 😃🙂👏🏼👍🏼👏🏼👍🏼👋🏼🙏🏼
What’s great is how rickety this handles and has sound to back it up. Thanks for that.
I can’t imagine being in this thing with the constant roar after having experience with prop fethering
N262az is a ME262 replica. It had a crash landing in 2003. Post accident inspection of the aircraft's left main gear hydraulic system revealed that the hydraulic actuator locking slide was undersized which allowed the gear to collapse (unlock) when placed under a load.
+@TheOne-xh4ol It had main gear collapse and punch through the wing on a test flight. Though the info I originally read was it was a flaw from when the Me-262 switched to tricycle gear configuration, so they reengineered the main gear mounts to make them stronger.
Wow, that's amazing. I never knew there was an ME-262 still flying!
there isn't any Me-262 STILL flying in the sense of being a preserved original Me-262. This is one of the replicas built in the 2000s
These 262 replicas are beautiful. Too bad they lost the wing jigs or there would be more of them. Looks like she’s light on the controls.
+@fw1421 The project that built the new Me-262s intentionally limited them to five examples as a business decision. They would still have the jigs and data for any repairs.
@@FiveCentsPleasewhy’d they do that? Manufactured scarcity?
@@bigmart932 The limit was a guarantee to buyers that the planes would hold their value. And realistically there is a timeline and there were not going to be many customers for this type of aircraft.
@@FiveCentsPlease Fair enough, looks radical.
@@bigmart932 I think that they actually had trouble selling the last few. I remember Michael Dorn looking into buying one, but I don't think that he ever did.
EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT THE ORIGINAL ENGINES, THE STRUCTURE IS THE ORIGINAL. THE SOUND OF THE VIBRATION OF THE METAL IN THE AIR INTAKE OF THE TURBINE IS WONDERFUL.
WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?
Except it isn't original at all. 100% replica aircraft - a batch of them were made PRECISELY to original .
Only way we have a 262 flying today
@@fn3048 yes 100% new build replica, they used an original Me 262 to copy from. The Willows Grove's old front gate static display Me 262 from WWII. Which is in Pensacola now if anyone wants to see it.
CAPS LOCK
I would not recommend the original engines ,since they had to replace them very often.
Saw one of these at the airpower here in austria, amazing birds, can't even imagine seeing them from the ground during a war, even just seeing them as a spectator makes you feel absolutely powerless.
Wow!!!! I just went for a ride in an ME-262! Thank you for sharing!
Gave me a flashback when I've seen an original in Frankfurt on the runway when I was little.
His sound is oddly calming . . . I dunno why but it makes me sleepy. Beautiful plane !
This must certainly be one of the 5 replicas built by American private individuals of the "American Me 262 Project" from 2003, a variant of the single-seater Me 262 A-1c. Nice flight :)
I loved the nose high aerodynamic braking after touchdown. Then lowered the nose while he still had elevator authority. He knows that bird!
I saw one of this Me262 in Linz Hörsching Austria 🇦🇹in January 2018 in a hangar of our Air force. The maintained the turbines there. As it startet I saluted as good I could! Greetings an old but very fit Sergeant Major from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
All the best from Australia!
When the pilot landed the ME-262's nose appeared as though it wanted to keep flying lol. Excellent video and thank you for sharing it!
Sensational video, sensational aircraft, what a privilege to ride along with the pilot. Thank you so much for posting (and for not adding music which can be such a distraction).
I visited a client in her home circa 1982. On a sideboard was an open photo album featuring ME-262 aircraft, an American Officer, and German military , recently surrendered. He husband, then deceased, was an american officer of German or Swiss heritage, assigned to oversee the captured ME-262 Aircraft, along with what could be gathered of their ground crews. This was in Portland Oregon.
80 years ago this was the absolute pinnacle of badassery. Politics aside, if this was YOU in the cockpit back then, that meant that you=pure distilled badass
holy shit, never thought I'd see cockpit footage from a 262. this rocks.
Wow, great video! That thing dutchrolls like crazy, also nice turn coordinator over there on the nose 😂
That thread is essential for glider planes !
A yaw indicator.
Just follow the thread !
Perfect German efficiency in combination with reliability and craftmanship :-)
Imagine some guy flying his restored P-51, and suddenly this jet flashes back. Twilight Zone stuff!
Must've felt good driving one of these when they were new, you were the king of the skies
I’m aware of the stats of top speed of P51, P38, Spitfire, ME262, etc & I’ve seen cockpit videos … but the speed & maneuverability of the 262 is just remarkable!
I wish my Dad was still alive to see this video. He earned a Purple Heart when a ME-262 strafed him in WW2.
Good use of aerodynamic braking on landing roll. Sweet video!
This is one of thr coolest videos ive seen of an airshot ever
I'm old, and I learned a long time ago, any THING man can envision, he can have!
The sky’s got to know a new sound the day these first took flight.
That altimeter gauge got a good workout during your flight!
it also was sticking and lagging....
A view i never thought id ever see. Thanks
You could tell he loved flying that aircraft!!
The engine sound is amazing!
Thankyou. What a treat t go along f the ride.😊
Amazing i'venever missed a WOH airshow since i was a kid. Loved seeing this aircraft, and even better now that i get a pov
you can see the dutch roll in this view, must have been a big change to get used to when going from straight winged fighters to the first swept wings. makes me thankful for series yaw dampners!
Incredible Clips
Great Collection
Beautiful Jet
Thank You
At the same time that war is hell, I admire technology, the machines that man has been able to build like , ME 262 , Maus, U-boat xxi and much more.
That was awesome!!!!!! Almost a bucket list ticked off (or as close as I'll get) .... 'Fly in an Me-262' Great video.
Heyo Rick, I want to say thank you so much for uploading this video for us to watch. I was wondering if this is your bird or if you personally know the owner of the ME 262. I would very much like a recommendation on where to possibly find/source a BMW 003-E1 or E2 engine (assuming it's even possible) for a full size HE-162 build I am going to be starting in 2025. If not, I might have to downscale to 1/2 or 1/3 size
+@death99ification Your best option to source a BMW 003 engine is to have something that a museum will trade for if they have one in storage. I'm seeing about 15 BMW 003s worldwide, and some are cut open. There are probably a few more in dusty storage or private collections. Russia manufactured copies of the BMW 003 as the Klimov RD-20 if you have any Russian/Chinese contacts.
Imagine being capt Yeager flying over that runway with aa and a me 262 in sight then Germany proceeded to get its ground transport units koed which pretty much made it useless. Amazing video btw
Thank You for the ride along !
That 's incredible. My best compliments to the pilot. 😮😅
Wow, amazing flying! That was great!
The first jet fighter in the world and it still flights. Amazing!!! 👍🏻
Thank you so so much for posting and sharing this. Videos like this really remind me of what amazing times we live in
Who can imagine one day, see a german 262 flying over DC!!!
Amazing footage, thank you for uploading this for others to experience. I notice you're using a yaw string? Does the 262 not have a yaw indicator?
What is that yaw string and what is the purpose of it - what does it do?
@@thecomedypilot5894 It's exactly that, it shows yaw instead of having a turn/slip indicator or "ball." The yaw string was still being used on the U-2 into the late 90s/early 2000s.
@@johnhickman106 Ah, I figured, thanks. That’s pretty cool. My airplane has the G1000s so I had no idea that a yaw string was even a thing.
@@thecomedypilot5894 Many small aircraft (including almost all gliders) still use them. Simple but effective!
@@thecomedypilot5894 the first flight instrument ever invented was the yaw string, used by the wright brothers, still used to this day by glider pilots and some twin pilots, and jets in this instance. provides real and accurate data about the slipstream instantly and tell it to you while looking outside vs being an indoor pilot.
Always Find The 262 to be such an Interesting Civilian Design
Just so Personal with That Old Jet Design
Im German...Love this nice bird...❤😊
This buzzing around must have really unsettling for the old folks on the ground thinking that Germany was attacking again
Thank you for the upload.
Awesome first person view footage. I'd be interested to know if there were any modern day improvements to enhance flight handling characteristics aside from fixes to the original landing gear and engine designs (I am not a pilot so I can't tell from the visuals).
+@tubewatcher It is a new construction Me-262 with GE turbines. There were fixes to the landing gear, and modern brakes and instrumentation. New horizontal stab trim is used because an original unit could not be certified for flight. The GE's are mounted in replica nacelles for the original look and original weight and balance requirements. This Me-262 is not structurally improved or enhanced, so the same flight parameters apply. It is actually over-powered with the GE turbines, so reduced power settings are used to keep the same performance, with reserve performance available. The FAA restricted it to 500 mph over safety concerns from wartime notes.
Imagine what it would have been like flying through a full bomber stream.
262 pilots said it was too fast.
Dude, I had no idea one these things were still airworthy. I remember seeing one of these in D.C. on my 8th grade field trip.
Какую же смелость нужно иметь, чтобы летать на самолётах вообще и на таких раритетах, в частности!!!
16:48 that freaked me out!
I guess it answered my question about what the camera was fixed to.