Glassed-Nosed Me262

Looks like it was designed to carry around Reichsmarschall Goering to me…

Bri 😉

Yes, supposedly in a lake near Rechlin.

Dave

i seem to recall that there was a flurry on one of the old boards – maybe WW or WIX in its early days, about one or other of these being found in a lake – ? I suppose the example shown needed to be got rid of quickly as it was probably blocking a runway

Any truth – or a buried Lancaster/Spitfires type story?

Here’s Airmodel’s conversion kit… I started this one years ago – no where near completion to this day. But a neat little collection of Prototype conversions nonetheless.

(Close-up edited to get the text close to the drawing)

Seeing that, I’m sure there was a large kit available some years ago of the glass-nosed ‘262. Revell, perhaps?

Here is a picture of the screen-visor.

http://www.sturmovik.de/wiki/index.php?title=Lotfe

And they mention that it was the LOTFE 7H used in Me 262 A-2a/U2 with a bomb aimer lying in the the fuselage.

Here is the following:
‘A single “Me-262-2a/U1” Sturmvogel derivative was built with an experimental bombsight system, and one or two “Me-262A-2a/U2s” Sturmvogel derivatives were built with glass noses and a Lotfe 7H bombsight for a prone bombardier to permit horizontal bombing. Neither of these experiments proved successful.’
http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avme262.html

Martin

Snippet from a monthly Aviation mag that will remain nameless… Teasers;)

Two things, does anyone have any further information to this story and what was the glass-nosed 262 used for…

This is a roughly translation from the text in contrailjjs third picture:

‘Me 262 A-2a/U2
Two-seated bomber version glass-nosed and bomb-aiming device LOTFE 7D.
The bomb aimer was lying accommodated.
Two prototypes were built (V555 and V484)’

Martin

Airmodel Conversion

Here’s Airmodel’s conversion kit… I started this one years ago – no where near completion to this day. But a neat little collection of Prototype conversions nonetheless.

(Close-up edited to get the text close to the drawing)

Odd Bird, I had never heard of it, but here is a pic link

http://www.afwing.com/intro/me262/new/Me-262A-2a-U2.JPG

and another link to info and a pic

http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/specs/messersc/me262a2a.htm

Rare Bird!!

www.stormbirds.com

Dave