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QUESTIONI was in the RAF in the war, but never encountered the Luftwaffe's jet aircraft, the Me262. What damage did these aircraft do?
THE Messerschmitt Me262 was envisaged as early as the late 1930s when a German, Hans von Ohain, invented the jet engine (along with the UK's Frank Whittle).See the full content of this document
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The prototype Me262 flew in 1941, but due to a lack of suitable jet engines, it had a piston engine in the nose instead.
It entered series production in 1944, but came too late to have a significant impact on the war.Hitler's constant interference with the project, and his insistence on its being a bomber, hampered its development, though he eventually ...See the full content of this document
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