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 ...

Today, jet engines are much more common ... With the Me 262, for instance, Messerschmitt had built the first ever turbojet plane. But there are several reasons why the Me 262 failed to have ...

The first operational jet fighter in history had engaged in its first air-to-air combat mission of World War II. Fortunately, the British fliers lived to tell the story. Built by Messerschmitt ...

When a Messerschmitt Me 262 launched an attack on a British Havilland Mosquito over Munich during World War II, it made history as the first fighter jet to engage in combat. The technological ...

In turn, six-to-nine Me 163s were shot down by Allied fighter pilots, who found – as with the Me 262 jet fighter – that the fearsome rocket plane was at its most vulnerable whilst descending ...

From light fighters to twin-engined heavy fighters and even the first operational jet fighter before the end of the war, Messerschmitt AG was one of the busiest war-equipment manufacturers in all ...

However, issues arose in working with Heinkel and Lippisch went to work for Messerschmitt taking the project and his team with him on Jan. 2, 1939. Labeled the DFS 194, the airframe was also moved ...

And one Nazi wartime innovation that altered the course of military technological history was the jet-powered aircraft.