A passing though about the Me-262... | Forums

[Rammjaeger]

There was a documentary on air yesterday and I was watching a segment about the Me-262 it occurred to me that the type is routinely mentioned as a revolutionary design ahead of its time - and yet few major post-WW2 aircraft types had the same basic design (shark-like fuselage, one engine under each wing).

[Loco-S]

[Bremspropeller]

Pwned by Loco

[BoCfuss]

As a war fighter you are correct. Pod mount engines are much easier and thus cheaper to maintain. It was a simple design, but for WWII era aircraft it was ahead of its time. The engine design was also superior, just lacked better alloys in the fans and compression chamber.

[DrHerb]

Yep Whittle's engine was a centrifugal flow while the Jumo was an axial flow. Centrifugal flow engines weigh more and are less aerodynamic than axial flow gas turbines

[GreyFox5]

I thought I read or saw a show that stated that the Russians had jet technology about the same time as the British and the Germans. And I think there was a hint that the Russians broke the sound barrier around the same time as America did.

[Loco-S]

In Russia, you dont fly plane, plane flies YOU.

[Waldo.Pepper]

Originally posted by Loco-S:
In Russia, you dont fly plane, plane flies YOU.

Yakov, you kill me.

Early Soviet jet engines were knock off of the German engines. Kind of like early American jet engines were knockoffs of the ___________.

[woofiedog]

The McDonnell Moonbat was a radical design for it's time with the engines and wing blending into the fuseluge. First submitted to the Army Air Corp in 1941.


McDonnell XP-67 "Moonbat"

[zardozid]

Originally posted by Waldo.Pepper:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Loco-S:
In Russia, you dont fly plane, plane flies YOU.

Yakov, you kill me.

Early Soviet jet engines were knock off of the German engines. Kind of like early American jet engines were knockoffs of the ___________. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I thought early Russian jet engines where developed from the "British Rolls Royce Nene"...