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The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German for "Swallow") in fighter versions, ... Based on data from the AVA Göttingen and wind tunnel results, ...
The more radical Hochgeschwindigkeit II (Me 262 HG II) proposal was to feature a new 35° swept wing with engines moved closer to the fuselage and a V-tail, though this was changed back to a conventional tail after wind tunnel tests showed that the V-tail was unstable.
The Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein was a design for a jet-powered fighter aircraft intended as the successor to the Messerschmitt Me 262 and other day fighters in Luftwaffe service during World War II. It had been developed only to the extent of wind tunnel models when the war ended, but the basic design was further developed postwar in Argentina ...
In 1944, a construction project was commenced by Nazi Germany to convert the former sand mines at the Walpersberg to a bomb-proof underground factory for the production of the Messerschmitt Me 262. To achieve this, the existing tunnel system was extended to 30 km by the use of over 12,000 forced labourers from Italy and Eastern Europe, and a ...
Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) by 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) Low Turbulence Wind Tunnel 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in) by 0.6 m (2 ft 0 in) Open Jet Wind Tunnel 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) diameter United Kingdom University of British Columbia Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel [90] 2.5 m × 1.6 m × 23.6 m (8 ft 2 in × 5 ft 3 in × 77 ft 5 in)
Me 262 A, similar to those flown by Kdo. Nowotny. Kommando Nowotny (Kdo. Nowotny—Commando Nowotny) was formed on 26 September 1944 following the disestablishment of the earlier Erprobungskommando 262 test unit at Lechfeld Airfield, sometimes also referred to as Kommondo Thierfelder which was named after its former commander Hauptmann Werner Thierfelder. [1]
Eugene E. Covert (1926–2015) – wind tunnel designer; Ray Creasey (1921–1976) aerodynamicist, helped design the BAC Lightning; Gaetano Crocco (1877–1968) – rocketry pioneer; Scott Crossfield (1921–2006) – first man to fly faster than twice the speed of sound in NAA's X-15; Alwyn Crow (1894–1965) – rocket designer
Urban Leonard Drew (March 21, 1924 – April 3, 2013), known as Ben Drew, was a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces and a flying ace of World War II. He was the first and the only Allied pilot to shoot down two Luftwaffe jet-powered Me 262 aircraft in a single mission while flying a propeller-driven North American P-51 Mustang.