Messerschmitt - Me-262a-1a/U4
Pulkzerstorer
SCHWALBE - "Swallow"
AvHistory - Version-4.00.167
Gregory Pierson's Version 4.0 first released in August 2006 represents a complete update of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line Process (1%ALP). Compared to our previous efforts, 4.0 is an order of magnitude improvement and a closer step towards our goal of producing aircraft that perform within 1% of the real aircraft. For additional info on Version-4 flight packages see the included AvHistory - Version-4 1%ALP text file.
AIRCRAFT BACKGROUND:
John Whelan BRAVO/4 has painted the Swallow as a Pulkzerstorer. It was the presonal aircraft of Pilot Major
Willi Hergat of JV 44 a special fighter unit of top German fighter ace pilots in the spring of 1945 at Munique/Alemanha. Major Hergat was credited with 72 kills. He was awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves.
This plane uses a custom painted cockpit by Alex Mets' who is better known as Artmag-Reloaded aka artmag.
The was equipped with a 50MM Mauser Mk 214A V3 cannon designed to kill bombers. The entire nose section had been specially constructed to accommodate the Mauser Mk 214A V3-cannon. This gun had a weight of 490 kilos, a rate of fire of 45 rounds/minute and carried 22 projectiles, each weighing 1.54 kilos.
Developed from a 1938 design by the Messerschmitt company, the Me 262 "Schwalbe," ("Swallow") was the worlds first operational turbojet aircraft. First flown as a pure jet on July 18, 1942, it proved much faster than conventional airplanes.
Development problems, Allied bombings, and cautious Luftwaffe leadership contributed to delays in quantity production. In late 1943, Adolf Hitler agreed to mass production, but insisted the aircraft be used primarily as a fighter-bomber.
On July 25, 1944, an Me 262 became the first jet airplane used in combat when it attacked a British photo-reconnaissance Mosquito flying over Munich. As a fighter, the German jet scored heavily against allied bomber formations. The bombers, however, destroyed hundreds of Me 262s on the ground. More than 1,400 Me 262s were produced, but fewer than 300 saw combat.
Most remained on the ground awaiting conversion to bombers, or were unable to fly because of lack of fuel, spare parts, or trained pilots.
Pulkzerstorer
SCHWALBE - "Swallow"
AvHistory - Version-4.00.167
Gregory Pierson's Version 4.0 first released in August 2006 represents a complete update of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line Process (1%ALP). Compared to our previous efforts, 4.0 is an order of magnitude improvement and a closer step towards our goal of producing aircraft that perform within 1% of the real aircraft. For additional info on Version-4 flight packages see the included AvHistory - Version-4 1%ALP text file.
AIRCRAFT BACKGROUND:
John Whelan BRAVO/4 has painted the Swallow as a Pulkzerstorer. It was the presonal aircraft of Pilot Major
Willi Hergat of JV 44 a special fighter unit of top German fighter ace pilots in the spring of 1945 at Munique/Alemanha. Major Hergat was credited with 72 kills. He was awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves.
This plane uses a custom painted cockpit by Alex Mets' who is better known as Artmag-Reloaded aka artmag.
The was equipped with a 50MM Mauser Mk 214A V3 cannon designed to kill bombers. The entire nose section had been specially constructed to accommodate the Mauser Mk 214A V3-cannon. This gun had a weight of 490 kilos, a rate of fire of 45 rounds/minute and carried 22 projectiles, each weighing 1.54 kilos.
Developed from a 1938 design by the Messerschmitt company, the Me 262 "Schwalbe," ("Swallow") was the worlds first operational turbojet aircraft. First flown as a pure jet on July 18, 1942, it proved much faster than conventional airplanes.
Development problems, Allied bombings, and cautious Luftwaffe leadership contributed to delays in quantity production. In late 1943, Adolf Hitler agreed to mass production, but insisted the aircraft be used primarily as a fighter-bomber.
On July 25, 1944, an Me 262 became the first jet airplane used in combat when it attacked a British photo-reconnaissance Mosquito flying over Munich. As a fighter, the German jet scored heavily against allied bomber formations. The bombers, however, destroyed hundreds of Me 262s on the ground. More than 1,400 Me 262s were produced, but fewer than 300 saw combat.
Most remained on the ground awaiting conversion to bombers, or were unable to fly because of lack of fuel, spare parts, or trained pilots.
