Recent content by Zyzygie

OK... I'll buy that.

I certainly wasn't meaning to denigrate the German people. They fought bravely. The leaders were the big problem.

But the Me 262 was certainly a formidable bomber destroyer in the hands of an expert... :confused:

Maybe if Germany hadn’t thrown in the towel so quickly, and if more than 20-30 Me 262s had managed to get into the air on any particular day, there would have been a reasonable chance of some combat... 😏 It was the Meteors hunting for the Me 262s, not the other way around.

From EVALUATION OF THE ME 262 by TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS Handling and control at various speeds The handling characteristics were poor at all speeds above 350mph. The airplane would not make a very satisfactory gun platform because of a tendency to hunt directionally...

The Meteor climb rate is limited by surge at altitudes above 15,000 ft. There’s not enough data points in the Me 262 graph to be sure, but it looks likely that there is also a decline starting at around 10,000 ft. That would fit in with what is known about the JUMO compressor’s tendency to...

Now that it’s no longer named “Me262 vs Meteor one-on-one dogfight,” we can open it up somewhat to make it a slightly more flexible and interesting blog. Not too broad though. Maybe to include equipment and general technology associated with the fighters. I’d be open to some suggestions. Make...

Why comparing aircraft makes no sense... when the one is an apple and the other is an orange...

It might well have gone to 37,000 but that's the figures I've got from CFE testing after the war. With a max level speed of about 530 mph it should have been in reasonable condition: Note allowance for throttling back to 16,000 rpm on incipient surging.

A rough estimate of relative time to altitude for the Me 262 and Meteor F3:

On the face of it, the Me 262 seems to have difficulty in terms of budgeting of its time on maximum power rating: From CFE Report: Tactical Trials Meteor III - WWII Aircraft Performance www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org › meteor › Meteor-CFE

A good answer from Kupernic in post #690: “A point on the Meteor's high speed snaking. This was a problem with all the early jet aircraft (Me 262, Meteor, P80).” “It really has only one solution, the yaw damper.” “It can be regarded as a problem with all jet aircraft and particular with...