After 1945, more than 15 air forces selected the Gloster Meteor as their first jet fighter aircraft. As is well known, it was not the first jet aircraft flown in the second world war, the Me-262 was flown very successfuly by the Luftwaffe, with 509 claimed kills for some 100 262s lost. Although never engaged in head-to-head combat with the Meteor, the 262 had a heigher top speed, weight thrust ratio, wing surface thrust ratio, dry thrust and a lower unequipped weight. My question is how come no air force other than the Czechs chose to adopt the Me-262 instead of the Meteor?
Reliability/liftetime of the engines?
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