"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/17/2015 at 13:37 • Filed to: Me 262
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/17/2015 at 13:37 • Filed to: Me 262 | 7
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MonkeePuzzle
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 13:46 |
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one of the few planes I liked enough to build a model of as a youngen
Kanaric
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 13:49 |
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What game? IL-2 Sturmovik?
Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 13:50 |
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I did Nazi that coming.
Axial
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 13:50 |
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Am I seeing IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946? I think I doooooooooooo!
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
03/17/2015 at 13:53 |
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It's Herr-racing.
DeLM
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 14:03 |
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War Thunder??
roflcopter
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 14:26 |
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Did someone say 262?
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Cé hé sin
> Axial
03/17/2015 at 15:26 |
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Well, it comes up as a 262 on Google but who knows?
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Cé hé sin
> roflcopter
03/17/2015 at 15:29 |
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Yes. Me.
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Axial
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 15:32 |
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The 262 is the type of plane shown, but I am reasonably certain that the image is from the game I mentioned. A modified version of it, using UltraPack, judging by the clouds.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Axial
03/17/2015 at 17:05 |
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Actually, in REAL life, it is a Messerschmidt ME-262. The first combat-utilized jet fighter aircraft, by the German Luftwaffe in WWII.
The US Air Force, Royal Air Force, and others didn't get jet fighter technology until just after WWII, and with german ex-patriated scientists and engineers.
I can only imagine how cool a P38 Lightning would be, re-fitted with twin turbojets, though... In order not to burn the twin tails off, it would probably work better to have a single fuselage and tail, like the ME-262 does, though.
45bullets
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
03/17/2015 at 17:26 |
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I gas jew could say that you did nazi that coming.
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45bullets
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 17:28 |
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t32sday!
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Cé hé sin
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
03/17/2015 at 17:32 |
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"The US Air Force, Royal Air Force, and others didn't get jet fighter technology until just after WWII, and with German expatriated scientists and engineers."
Not entirely true - the RAF were flying the Meteor in 1943, two years before war's end.
BorkBorkBjork
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 17:35 |
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I remember playing Combat Flight Simulator 3 and flying the ME 262 with the 50mm autocannon mounted in the nose. The thing looked like a flying Narwhal, but that gun was awesome. It looked like you were throwing a flaming softball at the target every time you pulled the trigger.
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Axial
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
03/17/2015 at 18:20 |
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I'm talking about the game the picture is taken from, not the plane in the picture. I know what an Me. 262 is, damnit! D:
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2015 at 23:16 |
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The ME 262 was test flying as early as 1942, and entered service in April 1944, with it's first active duty combat kill on July 26th, 1944.
Gloster Meteor F.1 was just entering active service on July 17th, 1944, after production started the previous January, and started testing with the Whittle W.2 jet engines in March of 1943, months after the 262 started testing with turbojets installed.
They were closer in terms of timeline than I thought, but the ME 262 was, unfortunately for the allies, earlier. Although, thankfully not enough to change much about the outcome of the war, other than making things more difficult for allied bomber crews and escort fighters.