After more than a decade on the ground, the Military Aviation Museum's Messerschmitt Me 262 replica has taken flight once again. With its successful test flight at Suffolk Executive Airport, the ...

The Luftwaffe's Messerschmitt Me 262 was a unique and potent new type of weapon, one that could very well have turned the tides of the conflict. Unfortunately for Germany, it was not developed the ...

Messerschmitt factories produced 1,443 Me 262s, but only about 300 saw combat. The others were destroyed in training accidents or by Allied bombing attacks. The almost absolute Allied dominance of the ...

Wall and Lobban had just encountered the Luftwaffe's newest weapon: the Messerschmitt Me 262 — the first operational fighter jet in history. Slow development.

The world's first operational fighter jet made its battlefield debut during World War II. The Messerschmitt Me 262 (nicknamed Schwalbe) attacked a British Havilland Mosquito that was flying over ...