Me-262 flies again in Germany

[evangilder]

From a guy in my aviation photographer's group:

A milestone in German aviation history: After more than 60 years the famous Messerschmitt Me 262 made its maiden flight from German soil on April 25th, 2006! Everything went smoothly and it did two approaches into Manching. I was very happy to witness this first flight from German soil.

Its first public appearance is scheduled to be at the ILA 2006 in Berlin.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1036451/L/

 

[plan_D]

Awesome. That's all I can say, really.

 

[Gnomey]

Yep! Would be great to see it in the UK!

 

[evangilder]

It would be great to see anywhere! Gerhard takes some great shots too.

 

[Erich]

well I hope Gerhard does.

I've known about this 'rogue unknown' for some time and have waited patiently for this babe' to breeze through the Bavarian skies in fine style. Very fitting to fly off a mnodern day air force base with a colourful ww 2 history.

Manching, a friend lives there, was noted as an important airfield for several staffeln of NJG 101 the training night Geschwader for optics/radar and noting my avatar the origins of Nachtjagdschule 1. During April/May of 45 all types of prop driven planes and Me 262 jets landed in this area and also in nearby Neubiberg to surrender . . .

E `

 

[Wildcat]

Very very cool!

 

[Wurger]

Flying Me 262 it's .......... excellent.

 

[Henk]

Excellent.

evangilder you lucky sun of a gun, you are a member of airliners.net

Henk

 

[sunny91]

Great plane..

sunny

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

could've chosen a better paint scheme

 

[evangilder]

Excellent.

evangilder you lucky sun of a gun, you are a member of airliners.net

Henk

Nope, not airliners.net. I have pics up on their sister site, but airliners.net is too picky with their criteria on submissions. I am a member of Fencecheck and ISAP (Int'l Society of Aviation Photographers).

 

[Vassili Zaitzev]

Whoa, As eric cartman from South Park would say, Sweeeeeeeeeeeet.
Speaking of jets, last summer when i was at the air muesuem in Duxford England my family and I witnessed a F86 Sabre flying over us, performing loop de loops. It was cool.

 

[Erich]

geezo I remember F-86's after the Korean conflict flying in the skies of south Cali. Man I'm old . . . .

 

[syscom3]

Whoa, As eric cartman from South Park would say, Sweeeeeeeeeeeet.
Speaking of jets, last summer when i was at the air muesuem in Duxford England my family and I witnessed a F86 Sabre flying over us, performing loop de loops. It was cool.

At the Chino 2005 airshow, I saw an F86 and MiG-15 chase each other around the skies.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Wow great stuff. That is a great thing to hear.

 

[Vassili Zaitzev]

At the Chino 2005 airshow, I saw an F86 and MiG-15 chase each other around the skies.

Cool

 

[elmilitaro]

nice.

 

[evangilder]

At the Chino 2005 airshow, I saw an F86 and MiG-15 chase each other around the skies.

The best part is that you are going to get to see it again in 18 days! Yippee!

 

[Smokey]

A vid of a restored Me 262 taking off and doing a flypast from the SimHQ forum

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9204328304330343657&q=messerschmitt

Theres a better clip from the same thread by JG53Harti

http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards/bbs/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=144;t=005021

 

[Wurger]

cool