This article, originally titled "On the Road," is from the Fall 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly, the National Air and ...

The jet boasted a top speed of approximately 540 miles per hour, far surpassing the fastest Allied piston-engine fighters. There can be little doubt that, at least when the Second World War began, ...

Preface signed Michael S. Rice. "ME-262 A-1 pilot's handbook, by F.D. Van Wart, 1946": p.1-30.

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe was the first German jet fighter used in World War II. Photo: Bettmann / Corbis 1942: The third prototype of the Messerschmitt 262 becomes the first true operational ...

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 as ...

As Nazi Germany made its last desperate attempts to continue its reign of terror in Europe, brave Queensland airmen risked their lives shooting down a weapon that ...

With a top speed of 540 mph, Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262 was by far the fastest fighter of World War II. It was powered by jet engines, a new technology that was not always reliable. Still, the ...

AirFest 2025 at Cape May Airport is to feature a rare Messerschmitt Me 262 replica, a World War II German jet fighter. The event, a fundraiser for the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, runs ...

While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot down 542 Allied aircraft during the war. Nazi Germany has long been begrudgingly admired for its technological ...