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edwest2 3rd March 2019 04:41

Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLk_u7ibSeo

Ed

Dan O'Connell 4th March 2019 04:05

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
Thanks Ed.

Nick Beale 4th March 2019 09:15

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
If the aspect ratio of the film distorted? To me, the aircraft looked a bit squashed vertically and stretched horizontally.

RSwank 4th March 2019 14:17

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
There is a website that lets you change the aspect ratio from 16:9 to 4:3 or vice versa. You just need to paste the YouTube link and select which option you want. It also allows you to drag horizontal and vertical sliders to get any aspect ratio you want.

http://www.stretch.site/

Kutscha 4th March 2019 19:40

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a "Schwalbe" (Wk. Nr. 111711). This new airframe had been surrendered on 31 March 1945 by Messerschmitt test pilot Hans Fay who defected during a functional check flight rather than fly it to an operational unit, landing at Rhein-Main, Frankfurt. It was the first Me 262 to fall into Allied hands. The Me 262 was taken to Thornville, France, and shipped separately to USA on the Manawaska Victory. It was not one of Watson's Whizzers. The Me 262 was allocated Foreign Equipment number FE-107, and later T2-711. It was test flown by Russell E. Schleeh shortly after its capture. This aircraft was flown by Test Pilot Walter J. McAuley Jr. of the Flight Performance Section, Flight Test Division, Wright Field, Ohio, in a test flight for comparison with a Lockheed P-80. During the flight both engines of the Me 262 caught fire. McAuley, Jr., successfully parachuted to safety, surviving as the aircraft crashed on 20 Aug 1945 ~two miles South of Xenia, Ohio near Route 68.

edwest2 4th March 2019 23:05

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
Thank you Kutscha. Quite a story. Interesting to learn that this was not a Watson's Whizzers aircraft. I recall reading somewhere that a race between an Me 262 and a similar American aircraft was planned but was called off because the Me 262 was faster.



Best,
Ed

edwest2 5th March 2019 00:54

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
You're welcome Dan.


Best,
Ed

Kutscha 5th March 2019 02:13

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by edwest2 (Post 265758)
Thank you Kutscha. Quite a story. Interesting to learn that this was not a Watson's Whizzers aircraft. I recall reading somewhere that a race between an Me 262 and a similar American aircraft was planned but was called off because the Me 262 was faster.

Best,
Ed

That could have been the Howard Hughes Me262 that he planed to race in jet races.

RSwank 5th March 2019 02:46

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
The story about Hughes and the Me 262.

http://vintageairphotos.blogspot.com...erschmitt.html

edwest2 5th March 2019 18:41

Re: Me 262 flight test 1947 - Wright Field
 
Amazing. Howard Hughes, a name I have not heard in quite a while.


Best,
Ed


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