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flying 262s again... - TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 11-11-2006
If you don't know yet, an american company is making some Me 262 replicas powered by not original and smaller GE engines.
![[Image: air_classic_cover.jpg]](http://www.stormbirds.com/project/images/air_classic_cover.jpg)
The first one delivered was a two seat (white 1) 262 to Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf on Star Trek NG).
[url:hv6q4xpa]http://www.stormbirds.com/project/images/update_6_04-3.jpg[/url]
The second Me 262 know as "Tango-Tango" was flown for the first time since it was delivered to the Messerschmitt Foundation in Germany.
![[Image: TT-Gear-Up.jpg]](http://www.stormbirds.com/project/images/TT-Gear-Up.jpg)
This is the third one: Is it not a beauty unfinished too?
[url:hv6q4xpa]http://www.stormbirds.com/project/images/2006_aug22_2.jpg[/url]
That's not serious reenactment though! They did not use accurate engines replicas (JUMO 004)!
Before they completed the first one in 2003, I asked them for its prize:
$ 5 millions! After all not so much! :lol: What a dream! Maybe the lottery?
Valete,
Re: flying 262s again... - aitor iriarte - 11-11-2006
Yeaah, I've always dreamed of flying (piloting would exceed my abilities...) a 262, the prettiest bird of the whole Second War...
Aitor
Re: flying 262s again... - Tib. Gabinius - 11-11-2006
The never serial finished Horten Ho IX looks better i think, but its a real nice airplane.
And i think, the idea not to use the original machines is quite logical, cause they often caused the death of the pilots, so it wouldnt be possible to use them again.
All in all: dos anyone else think it would look a bit strange if a Klingone fly in an wwII jet?
Re: flying 262s again... - LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS - 11-11-2006
the prettiest bird of the whole Second War...
IMHO, i prefer the strange silhouette of the STUKA...
![[Image: Ju87-B2-13s.jpg]](http://www.warbirdpictures.com/LCBW/Ju87-B2-13s.jpg)
Re: flying 262s again... - Cornelius Quintus - 11-11-2006
Quote:a 262, the prettiest bird of the whole Second War...
Ave Aitor,
yes, she really is a beauty! And here in motion on her first flight at an air show:
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid= ... 0&q=Me+262
Re: flying 262s again... - Cornelius Quintus - 11-11-2006
Quote:That's not serious reenactment though! They did not use accurate engines replicas (JUMO 004)!
Ave Daniele,
but it definitely increases the possibility of safe return and happy landing ;-) )
My own WW II aircraft experiences are very limited - just an half-an-hour passenger ticket on the Junkers Ju 52 of the German Lufthansa... I'll never forget that 3-engine sound and that feeling of flying very low and slow, compared to modern airliners ;-) )
Re: flying 262s again... - Tarbicus - 11-11-2006
Now this is a real airplane:
[url:5a94lx5o]http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/de%20Havilland%20DH%2098%20Mosquito.asp[/url]
Re: flying 262s again... - aitor iriarte - 11-11-2006
Many thanks for the films, Heiko. It's been nice to see a 262 in action!
P )Please, Cesar, the Ju-87 wasn't a bird, it was rather a duck! :lol:
Aitor
Re: flying 262s again... - LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS - 11-11-2006
YESSS!
![[Image: DuckFlying.gif]](http://animalbehaviour.net/KidsPages/KidsPictures/DuckFlying.gif)
Re: flying 262s again... - aitor iriarte - 11-11-2006
In any case, if all the darned RAF or USAAF were after me, I'd rather prefer to be flying a 262 than a Stuka! (Just to disappear quickly from scene, of course...) :lol:
Aitor
Re: flying 262s again... - Cornelius Quintus - 11-11-2006
Ave omnes,
the Stuka's advantage: You never could forget to lower the landing gear :lol:
Perhaps it's indeed more a kind of pigeon. On the pic it dropped something, which no one on the ground would be keen on... :wink:
Re: flying 262s again... - Narukami - 11-11-2006
Wow!
hock: hock: hock: Great video -- thanks for the link.
$5 million...
Takes re-enacting to an entirely new financial plane (so to speak).
Wonder what's next -- Tiger tanks?
:wink:
Narukami
Re: flying 262s again... - hoplite14gr - 11-11-2006
No sorry gentlemen Ju-87 was an "annoyed" seagull!!
Kind regards
Re: flying 262s again... - Tib. Gabinius - 11-11-2006
Take a look on this beauty and tell me which one is the one
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... _IX-V1.jpg
Re: flying 262s again... - aitor iriarte - 11-11-2006
No doubt Tobyas, but had them it finished to a flying level? I cannot see any engine on the plane... :?
Aitor