even the Luftwaffe pilots considered experienced enough to fly the Me-262 were still well behind allied pilots.
Your phraseology needs some refinement in view of fighter pilot lexicon. Time to check your six.
even the Luftwaffe pilots considered experienced enough to fly the Me-262 were still well behind allied pilots.
It did provide the 262 with a higher critical mach number than Allied jets.
As I understand it the Me262 had a Mach limit of .84 and the Meteor .80, but I don't know if that's a long nacelle F3, short wing F4 or even an F8. The 262 had a never exceed speed of 595mph, I think the Meteor could top 600mph in a pinch.
How much of that .84 was due to the wing sweep?
... I can't use my supersonic wind tunnel, because the neighbors complain about the noise.
Have the same problem. Hate it.
It does come in handy in the fall though, doesn't it? I haven't raked leaves since I built it.
It does come in handy in the fall though, doesn't it? I haven't raked leaves since I built it.
Jumos were dead ends, as were the BMWs, but there was one unit that had promise, it formed the turboprop for the Bear. All the other designs the Soviets tried to improve with better metals, they had plenty of Chromium.The thing that's always stuck me is that the 262 and it's Jumo 004's were basically prototypes for the late 1940's and early 1950's jets, while the Meteor and it's Derwent's were more like the designers were thinking "fuck it, the thing functions. It might not scale up very well, but we can start fresh later".
The thing that's always stuck me is that the 262 and it's Jumo 004's were basically prototypes for the late 1940's and early 1950's jets, while the Meteor and it's Derwent's were more like the designers were thinking "fuck it, the thing functions. It might not scale up very well, but we can start fresh later".
Which I think illustrates that the UK and the Allies had the luxury of more wiggle room in their R&D.
The Germans, reasonably, felt pressure to design not just for 1942 and 1943, but 45, 46, and 47, as lack of foreplanning had bitten them in the ass before.
They just weren't in a winning situation regardless of what they designed, and so now we're here 75 years later calling them dummies.
Jumos were dead ends, as were the BMWs, but there was one unit that had promise, it formed the turboprop for the Bear. All the other designs the Soviets tried to improve with better metals, they had plenty of Chromium.
So stuck with duds, they asked to Brits to sell them the Nene and Derwent.
And they were stupid enough to do it.
Jumos were dead ends, as were the BMWs, but there was one unit that had promise, it formed the turboprop for the Bear. All the other designs the Soviets tried to improve with better metals, they had plenty of Chromium.
So stuck with duds, they asked to Brits to sell them the Nene and Derwent.
And they were stupid enough to do it.
Not the brightest move of any post war UK government, Tory or Labour
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Another deadend was the axial flow Lockheed.