One of the advantages the Allied jet fighter had over its German rival was in maximum altitude. The Me 262 Swallow couldn't fly over 37,565 feet, whereas the Meteor could reach over 43,000 feet.

Messerschmidt Me 262 fighter jet (Image credit: National Museum of the Air Force) ... The U.S. military captured at least nine Me 262s and recruited several German pilots who could fly them.

Entering service late in the war, the Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe—German for “Sparrow”—was the world’s first operational ...

The Me 262 was the first operational fighter jet in history, and while it outmatched Allied aircraft, it couldn't turn the tide of the war. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

The world's first operational jet fighter, the Me-262 Schwalbe, ... The museum's aircraft was captured at Lechfeld, Germany, by a special USAAF team led by Col. (later Maj. Gen.) Harold M. Watson.

The Me 262 – the World’s First Operational Jet-Powered Fighter – Design work on the Messerschmitt Me 262 began before the outbreak of the Second World War, but due to problems with the ...

The Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe, ... The first operational jet fighter in history had engaged in its first air-to-air ... The jet was captured in 1945 by a special U.S. Army Air Force team ...

While it wasn't the first jet-engined aircraft that flew, the ME-262 was the first operational jet-fighter. So many technical and political troubles struck its development that it began its career ...

The Storm Bird. The Me-262 is a jet that needs no introduction. Perhaps no German WWII fighter on this side of the Bf-109 and possibly the Fokke Wulf Fw-190 is as recognizable as the Me-262 jet.

One such “wunderwaffe” was the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world’s first functional jet aircraft.Though the plane was developed during the Second World War, the Germans understood the ...