ME262 to fly over Germany- 60 Years later…

Nice pic of what is now D-IMTT doing high-speed taxying trials in Manching today:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1035944/L/

An excellent picture of a beautiful airplane!

WILL IT BE AT LEGENDS

O you beat me to it 🙂
*dreams of a formation flight with the Flugwerk 190 at Legends…*

With the first flight of the new-build Me 262 imminent in Germany, we should credit Steve Snyder for initiating the project and thank him for his brilliance and his early efforts. He deserves a lot of credit for the project!

Absolutely AVI, to even dream of undertaking such a project is beyond most of us. And we can also thank Mr. Snyder and the 262 project for bringing the original two-seater back up to a displayable standard.

In Germany, at lesat, it’s illegal to display a swastika on an airworthy aircraft. It seems to be OK for a static aircraft, however.

Oh right never knew that I know that the swastika is banned in germany but never knew that about ther aircraft thank you for information.

James

Just wondering, why has the Me262 not got a Swastika on its tail?

James

In Germany, at lesat, it’s illegal to display a swastika on an airworthy aircraft. It seems to be OK for a static aircraft, however.

Just wondering, why has the Me262 not got a Swastika on its tail?

James

Me 262 Replicas

Nowadays there is not much mention of Steve Snyder, the man who originally conceived, designed the engine installation, and planned the construction of the five Me 262 replicas. Steve’s original plan was to build five replicas, sell four, and to keep one for himself. Without him, there would have been no Me 262 project. The Me 262 project was his baby.

Steve was an avid aviation enthusiast, skydiver and pilot, from his early days in college until the day in 2001 when he was tragically killed in the crash of his F-86.

For example, he and Charlie Hilliard were the first two skydivers in the US to pass a baton in free-fall. (The feat had previously been accomplished in Abbotsford, BC, Canada some weeks earlier.) Today we take for granted the thousands of square parachutes used by skydivers and the military. Steve was the inventor/skydiver who made it happen. Although he did not invent the square parachute, ( a Canadian, Jalbert, did ) he invented the original reefing system which retarded the inflation rate and thus reduced the previously unbearable opening shock, and made square parachutes work. He first introduced Rogallo’s design, the Parawing, to be followed by the Parafoils and Para-Planes, changing free-fall parachuting forever.

Unfortunately, Steve died too soon to see the completion of the first of his 262s, and too soon to be able to make the first test flight in the prototype. He’d been preparing for that first flight and was enthusiastically looking forward to the day when he’d be in the Me 262 cockpit. Too bad it didn’t happen.

With the first flight of the new-build Me 262 imminent in Germany, we should credit Steve Snyder for initiating the project and thank him for his brilliance and his early efforts. He deserves a lot of credit for the project!

Pity the Dora isn’t getting a Daimler, I guess they are probably rather scarce these days.

Dora’s had Jumo’s……. 😉

Anyone know if there’s a chance of it making the public days at Farnboro’ in July?

William

First I think it will be difficult enough to get “her” to the ILA2006 (International Aerospace Exhibition and Conferences) in Berlin from May 16-21…

Now THAT’s what I call an aeroplane!

Anyone know if there’s a chance of it making the public days at Farnboro’ in July?

William

Lovely stuff! Would love to see that in the flesh someday! 🙂

Here you will find much more pics of “our” great
Messerschmidt Me 262 A-1c:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1036466/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1036465/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1036453/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1036451/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1036022/L/

IF you’re registered you can watch the pictures in this thread of Tango Tango flying in Manching today..
http://www.flugzeugforum.de/forum/showthread.php?t=30736&page=42

Was there not an issue of corrosion in the Stuka airframe which was understood as the reason for dropping the idea on grounds of cost? In the (long) run up to the movie being completed there was certainly chatter that the beast was being prepared to fly. Whether this was just movie hype I don’t know.

It was actually the Gaydon Spitfire 24 whose electrics got cooked while being prepared to fly for the Battle of Britain film. This happened during radio installation. It was never the intention to fly the Ju.87, but certainly the engine was run and recorded for the film soundtrack.

Ummm…. not meaning to sound off, but why a Spit 24? :confused:

IIRC, there was the full intention of getting the Stuka up, but the main reason it didn’t fly was a lack of funds. I haven’t read my Robert Rudhall book for a while, however….

It was actually the Gaydon Spitfire 24 whose electrics got cooked while being prepared to fly for the Battle of Britain film. This happened during radio installation. It was never the intention to fly the Ju.87, but certainly the engine was run and recorded for the film soundtrack.

I forgot….

There was an ultralight replica Stuka doing the rounds in Germany a couple of years ago – the company that currently manufactures a 3/4 scale ultralight Bf109 (www.meck-ul.de) was going to develop it, but I’m not sure whether that will in fact go ahead.

(photo via www.squadhost.de)

Am i right in thinking there is at least 1 half size or some other scale kitbuilds flying?
I have vauge memorys of seing something like a Stuka at an airshow once.

There’s no such thing as a kit-built Stuka. There have been, however, a few (three or more) scaled-down representations built and flown by private individuals in the last quarter-century, most recently a 3/4 scale replica in the Ukraine.

This beasty, I believe, is the one built by Louis Langhurst and was probably the first Stuka replica to fly since the Proctuka.

(photo via www.luftwaffereenactors.org)

Incidentally, that group also owns a full-scale Bf109G-6 replica, powered by a Ranger V-12.

Yes, there was a very nice 75-80% scale replica flying in the USA some years ago. It was reported in AM as I recall.