The Jap made sort of 262 Kikka

Yep, the Kikka (an example of which survives at NASM along with the J7W mentioned before) bears only a passing likeness to a 262. The Shusui, though (Smithsonian also had one of these until downsizing in the 50s…fortunately it was then rescued by Ed Maloney and is still at PoF) is a very close copy of the Me163B.

S.

I understand the sub withthe 262 blueprints was sunk, so they developed their jet pretty much on their own.

U234

The U234 was on the way to Japan with a crated Me262 at the war end – along, so they say, with some nuclear material.

It ultimately surrendered in the USA but there doesn’t seem to be any reference to the 262 subsequently appearing at Freeman Field or being assigned a T2- number.

Does anybody know what happened to it?

Wonder if it still rests in some Navy storage repository as per the last scene in the first Indiana Jones film………

I suppose it might have been “hot”

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/heads/footnotes/lastdays1.html

Weren’t some 262s and 163s sent from Germany to Japan by U-boat?

Cheers

Alistair

The Japanese also evaluated the Bf109 and FW190….

They had a go at the Me 163 Komet too.

The Mitsubishi J8M Shusui