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 ...ITHS INDUSTRIES LTD,
E. W. Young, Publicity Manager,
Aviation Division
Messerschmitt 262 v. Meteor
SIR,—Mr I. A. Anderson, in Flight for July 26, raised
the subject of the "operational status" of the Me262,
and queried the dates at which the Me262 and the
Meteor became operational.
In regard to the background of the Me262, the best
history I have read on this machine was an article by
Mano Ziegler...
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 ...IBRARY
FLIGHT International, 29 November 1973
Next week: Great Airliners 8 (Lockheed Con
stellation) and They Dared First 12
Me262V-1 Prototype, fitted only
with a 700 h.p. Junkers Jumo 210G
piston engine for initial aircraft
handling trials, flew April 4, 1941.
With two 992lb-thrust BMW 003
turbojets, but retaining pi...
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 ...th much interest your article on the restoration
of Spitfire propellers by Dowty Rotol (August 20) but must
contest the statement that the first Allied fighter to claim a
victory over a Messerschmitt Me262 was a Spitfire XIV on
October 5, 1944. "Bud" Mahurin would be the first to rush
to the defence of the P-47, and it would not be fitting to
steal the Jug's thunder by claiming that a Spitfire ach...
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 ...ad a command myself, many
were the occasions when I found myself thinking "now,
what would Bob do on this occasion?". It never failed.
Andover, Hants RIVERS OLDMEADOW,
Sqn Ldr, RAF(KETTJ)
Probing the Me262
SIR,—In answer to Mr Leslie Hunt's appeal for the
identification of the South African Me262B-la/Ul
(Letters, April 14), evidence points to it once having
been AM 50, though whether it ever bore ...
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 ...
four flying Mosquitoes.
Hatfield, Herts p. J. BIRTLES
[In fairness to Mr Bristow it should be said that publication
of his letter had been held up for several weeks through
pressure on space—Ed]
The Me262 and "Operational Status"
SIR,—In Flight for June 20, in the note on Professor
Messerschmitt on page 914, is the following statement:
". . . and later in the war his Me262 was the first jet
aircr...
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 ... actually
started my flying career in the
summer of 1937. It was inter
rupted for quite some time in
May 1945 at the.. Messer-
schmitt Nachrustbetrieb
Erding near Munich, where I
was flying the Me262.
I cannot believe that the
picture was taken in 1938,
because one can clearly see
that the second chap from the
right is wearing a boy scout
hat. Austria was occupied by
the Germans on Ma...
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 ...dy lost its talented Kommando-
fiihreT (CO) one one such operational flight, a radar-
directed interception of a high-flying Allied aircraft
(possibly a P-38 Lightning on weather reconnaissance),
his Me262 A-l crashing near the airfield.
This officer had been associated with the flight
development of the Me262 from late in 1943 and had
built up EK.262 from a small Luftwaffe test formation
working ...
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 ... or curtailed.
Bamford, nr Sheffield A. J. YOUNG
[Very approximately, 460,000 shareholders at £5 each would
be required to buy one TSR.2 at the price quoted on the basis
of a full production run.—Ed]
Me262 in Prague Technical Museum (letter from Mr L. Hunt)
moment, and that similar hordes do the same abroad. What
I do question is the usefulness of it all; I dispute that an
immensely detailed recor...
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 ...me secrecy.
The Meteor was due to progress through the usual
experimental, development and operational trials, but
very early on we 'received Intelligence reports regarding
the possible menace of the Me262. We were already in
trouble with trying to maintain fighter superiority with
the Focke-Wulf 190, and the thought of an operational
German jet was more than disturbing.
It thus became patently ob...
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 ...ing a single attack.High-ranking U.S.A.F. officers stated then that it would have
taken the Allies three years to develop a comparative fighter.The advice given to Allied bomber pilots was to let the Me262
approach to as close as 1,000 yards, and then to turn sharply, sothat the interceptor would be in front of the bomber, and thus
harmless. The inference is obvious.
Originally, the 30mm Mauser MG...
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 ...mets
for its international routes. The total cost exceeds 160 million
cruzeiros.
History and Herr Messerschmitt
WILLY MESSERSCHMITT, the former designer of German aircraft, recently discussed his Me262 twin-engined fighter
with American journalists. After saying that his firm built "600
to 800" of these aircraft, he went on to claim that the Me262 was
the only jet fighter to see action in W...
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 ...The name "Sepp" appears in large red letters under the
cockpit. I believe that Luftwaffe aircraft used on the EasternFront had a winter camouflage scheme involving very light colours,
and a number of Me262s were definitely given a whitish sprayduring the winter of 1944-45.
Volume II of Royal Air Force 1939-1945, page 269, states: —
"On 22nd April [1943] they [the Germans] rashly committed a con-si...
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 ...uizmas
from Uncle Roger
History
1 Better known names of: Dr.l,
B.-26, D.H.80, OS2U
2 Fit the engines: BMW.801, Allison
V.1710, Jumo 004B, Mercedes
Dili, P&W R.2800, P&W J48;
P-38, Fwl90, Me262, Thunderbolt,
F-9F Cougar, Pfalz Dili
3 What was the "Flying Pencil"?
4 Send them home: Electra, Ghost,
DC-2, Master, G-EBKT; Woodley,
Stag Lane, Santa Monica, Burbank,
Hatfield
5 Who wro...
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 ... National. Air
Museum, Washington DC, and is in store awaiting
restoration.
London, W4 RICHARD P. BATESON
German Jet Fighters
SIR,—As one of last summer's protagonists in the dis
cussion on the Me262 and Meteor, and bearing in mind
your wish not to re-open the correspondence on this
specific subject, I should nevertheless like to remark
on M Basque's letter (February 27) concerning his
e...
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 ...and for some 50 years.
In this operation we were supported by HMS Penzance. TheMerbat operation took place about a year later with two Short
Rangoons.
St Helens, loW F. R. DREW (Gp Capt, Ret)
Wanted: Me262 Information
I WISH to appeal for reminiscences and general informationconcerning the world's first operational jet fighter—the
Messerschmitt Me262—on which I am preparing a book.
This Luftwaffe ...
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 ...e262, subject of the letter from Mr Richard P. Bateson
CORRESPONDENCE...
1 have recently received help from the German authorities (notably
by being allowed to do research in the archives of the Luft...
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 ...last week both British and Americans
were busy, striking at places not far
behind the German lines, whose
destruction must seriously hamper the
defenders of the Rhine. Fortresses
HE'S HAD IT- An Me262 jet-propelled fighter, which had run out of fuel, attempts to force-land. This photograph was
taken by the recording camera in the U.S. Army 8th A.F. Thunderbolt, which was attacking the Me...
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 ...y twin-jet
fighter was given to Gloster, whose previous design had
been the Gladiator. The Meteor was the first Allied jet
fighter and though technically more conservative than its
adversary, the Me262, was a fine aeroplane.
Some lack of confidence showed itself after the war,
when Bomber Command was to take no fewer than: three
jet bombers of equivalent performance, with a fourth of
lower...
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 ... least? In fact the last two countries
have spent considerable sums in the last two years
rebuilding their existing fleets.
London NW6 JOHN M. DAVIS
(Latin American Research Group of Air-Britain)
The Me262 and "Operational Status"
SIR,—Whilst not wishing to indulge in space-consuming
semantics on the use of "operational" and "non-
operationar' (letter from Mr I. A. Anderson, Flight,
July 25), I am...
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 ...d these not be grounds for revoking the licences
of three airlines?
Ipswich, Suffolk L. G. p. DALE
German Jet Fighters: A PoW's Memories
SIR,—In Flight for July 25 last year a letter headed
"The Me262 and 'Operational Status' " attracted my eye,
since I worked on this airplane as a production man
at Heinkel's works in Marienhe, near Rostock. I was
then a French prisoner-of-war. I also work...
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