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274. "On 25 March 1942, the aircraft attempted to take off from Augsburg on the power of all three engines (its 48th flight), but just after leaving the ground both turbojets suffered compressor blade failures. This forced Fritz Wendel to land the heavily laden prototype on the power of the piston engine alone," Smith & Creek, p. 86. The BMWs were removed and it was test flown using its piston engine in the summer of 1942. It was then sent back to the factory to be rebuilt with two Junker Jumo 004 A-0 engines.
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275. Now fitted with Jumo 004 turbojets, W.Nr. 033, port and 039, starboard and without the piston engine in the nose, V1 first flew on jets alone on 19 July 1943 and was transferred to Lechfeld as a test aircraft.
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276. On page 161 of
Me 262 Volume One, Smith and Creek give this caption for this photo, "Believed to show the Me 262 V1 (PC+UA) after it was rebuilt with Jumo 004 engines. The aircraft was fitted with a production type canopy, but was destroyed on 7 June 1944 ...". O'Connell, p. 14, explains that "It crashed and was damaged while flown by Heinz Herlitzius on its 95th flight on 7 June ... It was destroyed on 12 September in a bombing raid by the US 15th Air Force."