Very cool video.
Lots of interesting info on these babies found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262
Such as this tidbit:
The Czechoslovakian aircraft industry continued to produce single-seater and two-seater variants of the Me 262 after WWII. These were kept flying as late as 1957.
At 03:10 PM 10/7/2006, you wrote: >Marc and Carlos - Thank you for filling out the picture for us. I had >assumed that this aircraft was made in the 40s... I did not realize >that all the originals are gone. Still, as a few others have said, it >is really something to see this bird fly...
Quite a few of the original ME-262's survive, Eric -- the Smithsonian has one, for instance, and I believe that there is even one in Australia. But all are just static display models and are no longer flightworthy.
Marc
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