Inside the Me-262 Jet Fighter
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2024
- The Messerschmitt Me-262A-1 "Schwalbe" ("Swallow") was the first mass produced jet fighter in the world that entered combat. With its maximum speed of 540 mph this sleek bird outran every allied fighter at the end of WW2. It was not a "wonder weapon" but it was still an outstanding and pioneering design. The Me-262 went into production too late to significantly impact the course of the war. We will show you how this plane works, what was good and what bad qualities the Swallow had and how Me-262 was used in its role as an interceptor. Tell us in the comments below what you think about this plane and please tell us where we made any errors.
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00:00 Messerschmitt Me-262A-1
00:50 Air Frame
02:40 Bulkheads
03:58 Wings
06:17 Tail section
06:56 Landing gear
07:15 Engines
10:34 Fuel system
11:42 Armament
14:28 Cockpit
16:05 Start up Procedure
18:31 Take-Off
19:05 Flight
21:03 “Rat catching”
21:22 Summary and legacy
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Only complain is that the voice some times feture weird pauses in the mid of a sentense.😃👍🏼🇸🇪🇸🇪
I found a little mistake in the cockpit .... With the word Steight (climb ) .... Its a little vocabulary mistake .... Its Steigt
After the combustion section the hot gasses impinge on a single stage turbine. You called it a compressor.
Great video! Only thing would be maybe the section about the dimensions could have gone a little quicker, as the real interesting bits were yet to come and perhaps some people might click off during that part. And I agree with the comment that the slight pauses mid- sentence could maybe be avoided. But this was a great video, and I appreciate the depth of information, background music, and calm, though non-monotonous narration. Videos like these I think will do really well for a number of reasons! Also, if yall ever want to do a video on an A26c Invader, I'm a former co-crewchief on one and can get you tons of info, pics, videos, even a tour if yall are out in CA.
I actually really enjoyed the calming subtle background music and visuals and actually got me to focus and relax. Don't tell the actual full time meditation channels!
in a world of youtube shorts, I am absolutely astonished and relieved that a 22 minute video with no long introduction, ad breaks, or other goofy stuff exists... just pure Me-262 and absolutely everything about it
Excelente informacion , muy bueno el video de lo q' fue el 262 en su corta vida operativa y q' pudo haber tenido un impacto mucho mejor si hubiera aparecido antes . Felicitaciones .
gorgeous gift to all of us and timeless. also the plane was gorgeous.
so true, i really appreciate the style of this video
Beautiful video. I actually got to talk to a ME262 pilot at the USAF Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH back in 2002. I also talked to HE111 bomber crews, Stuka pilots, FW190, and 109 pilots. They were there in a huge group from Germany and my son was only 3 at the time and knew a lot of the German WW2 planes. They were amazed how he knew the names of all of them. I told them about a new video game called IL2 that just came out and how it modeled the WW2 planes. The Stuka pilot said he was going to look up the video game when he got home, he flew in MSFS on his computer. I had trouble with the ME262 in the game with the engines blowing up all the time. The ME262 pilot told me what was going on and how you could not move the throttle fast or it would set the engine on fire from the change of compression. The He111 bombardier told me how to use the bomb sight correctly, because I was having trouble hitting targets. He told me how to use the speed dial to keep the cross on target. When I got home I tried everything they told me and it all worked. I was amazed at how accurate a video game modeled everything that happened in the actual planes.
The original turbojet had problems with the compressor being fixed blades where you had to choose high altitude or low level performance when making the compressor. They chose the higher performance profile so the pilot is responsible to keep the pressure higher in the compressor than the combustion chambers. If you give it too much throttle at too low a compressor rpm the fire will go the wrong way and stall the compressor.
Our modern engines have computer adjusted stator vanes which tailor the compressor to whatever is asked of it regardless of altitude. The pilot can jam the throttles but the FADEC speeds up the engine at the maximum allowed so better performance without pilots having to worry about it.
Fantastic!!!
That is sick
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It would be amazing if somebody could track down a bunch surviving WW2 pilots, put them all on sim rigs in IL2 and have a big dogfight
This is NOT just a good video. After more more than eighty years from the start of the creation of the Me 262, masses of books, reports and films published, you offered us masses of information of all kind too long to enumerate here in the best possible way that were completely unknown. I am the retired Architect-Engineer of the former Olympic Airways, now at the age of 78 I pass at least six hours a day in my flight simulator and for me yours is the best documentary in every detail I ever saw for any aircraft in my entire life. I could not find words to thank you enough.
Thank you for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed it. More to come !
Agreed, very well done, I learned new info as well. Thanks. @@BluePawPrint
yes and the narrator is unbiased not giving negativity about Germans
As far as I can tell, this is not A.I.narrated. It sounds natural . . . that's becoming something of a novelty these days.
Those artificial "voices" bedevil so many uploads these days.
I fully agree with the original comment about the level of superb and interesting detail in this video.@@edwinwilkerson6051
Right, outstanding podcast.
Undoubtedly, you are one of the most complete channels in the military field. I have not seen any channel that produces content with this amount of details.
*Engineering channels??*
agree but Yarnhub is also quite good
This narrator is literally perfect for anything! Well done mister Webb!
You are too kind
Absolutely, your narration is perfect and couldn't imagine anyone else doing it. Your voice is all part of the Yarnhub style we've got to love. Long may you continue.
I like playback at 1.15x speed.
Lots of weird pauses though
is it AI?
It's not just the great 3D models and animations, the video goes over the details of each component and even covers things like basic tactics and how the plane was used. Excellent video, I'd love to see more in the future!
Very professional video, congratulations ! My father came the closest he ever came to be killed in WW2 when at Zaventum aerodrome near Brussels, (now Brussels Airport). He had just finished a radio repair job on a B25 and was driving along the perimeter track in his service van, when he heard canon fire and a "whoosh" from the jet engines. It was a lone Me262 straffing the airfield trying to knock out the B25s in his Wing (139 Wing 2nd TAC). He found out later that the instrument fitter he had been working alongside in the same B25 was killed by a canon shell. The aircraft was not hugely damaged, however, and was repaired. Such is the luck of war.
This may be the single greatest aviation doc ever produced. Very uplifting and calming. This is ART. Fantastic job!
This Jet will always have a special place in my heart since it was my first well made model
I have one, too! As you can see, I used a photo of it as my profile pic.
The jet sound that comes with the music while explaining the part of starting the plane.... man i got goosebumps. Such peaceful sounds... Thanks for everything, amazing video.
Felicitaciones, soy piloto retirado de la fuerza aérea colombiana y disfruto sus videos también por tan magnífica información y tan bien realizada,me impresiona tantos detalles que llegamos a sentirnos dentro de la aeronave,gracias nuevamente
Great job! The combination of precise and careful drawing with ambient music in the background makes it a pleasure to watch!
Thank you, an excellent, most detailed representation of the construction of the Me262. Possibly the best I have seen. You are to be commended for you work, Cheers .
I once read that when the MK108 Cannon was first deployed by the luftwaffe, the Allies were slow to learn of its existence. Mainly due to the fact that when it was used it had a success rate so high that there were rarely any survivors left to tell what had happened!
Beautifully made , immersive and informative. Makes one wonder if the 262 had been brought into full production two, even three years earlier ???
Thank you very much for such detailed introduction of the German jet of WWII. Man, seeing how many procedures to just take off, really shows how educated and trained a pilot had to be, to handle such machine. Anyone who can manage these were very smart people in my book.
The entire nose section was made from steel, not because of a lack of aluminum (The Boeing Co was supplying 400,000 lbs. of aluminum per month, starting in 1943, in the form of B-17 bombers that had been shot down.) but because they needed to move the CG point forward, and the easiest way to do this was to fabricate the entire nose assembly out of steel sheet in various thicknesses.
One of the production problems was that the main wing spar, made of steel tapered both in form and in thickness over it's entire length, and there was only a single company in Germany that could fabricate them. This factory was captured by the Russians in February of 1945, which meant that there were no wing spars after that time, except the ones that were already in the supply chain.
Production was carried on AFTER the war, in Czechoslovakia, which meant that for a brief period after WWII, the Czecks had the most advanced fighter aircraft in the world. They only built a small number, due to lack of such things as more main wing spars, so they used up all available parts building their fleet. They still have one single-seat aircraft, and one 2 seat Me 262B1-a on display in their museum in Prague.
I have seen Me-262 parts for sale on Ebay in Czechoslovakia, specifically engine RPM indicators with the dual range, and the fuel indicators, which I presume were taken home by employees as souvenirs after production ended. I have also seen several Reidel starters, the best one being new out of the box, at a swap meet in Oklahoma. The owner stated his father brought it home after WWII, and planned on building a small scooter to ride, but never got around to it. It had been wrapped in preservative paper in a box, and there was no rust, the phenolic molded parts were flawless, and I have no doubt it would have fired up instantly if supplied with fuel. It appeared in as-new condition.
Messerschmitt was very advanced in its construction methods and pioneered the mass production of aircraft made from magnesium alloys.
im really looking forward to the Blue Paw videos, if this 262, and the Okha vids are what we can expect, you're on a different level to any contemporary shows, and when you don't think the animation can get any better, you up the ante. Bloody amazing work by all involved.
Wow. This is an unbelievable look at one of the more fascinating weapons of WWII. Extremely interesting, and so well put together. Subbing for sure! Can't wait to see more great content.
I am full of admiration for the work you put into this video. The amount of detail and technical nuances is amazing! Chapeau bas 🎩
Pure quality production. Great work, well done.
This is one of the best explanatory videos I have ever come across, should be shown in middle school and high school WWII armament related classes.
Outstanding video, great representation of the real thing! Detailed description. Great job.
The hide details like standards over each piece of this machine is awesome: easy to access it, easy to replace it. Hard lessons learned in times of war to say keep easy to repair, able to take off even in roads in deep keep flying. So there is more than a beautiful plane.
The Me-262 Jet Fighter is such a fascinating piece of history! It's incredible to think about the advancements in aviation technology during that era. The Me-262 was a real game-changer in its time, being the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. It's so interesting to explore the internal mechanics and design of such an iconic aircraft. The way these early jets paved the path for modern aviation is truly remarkable! 🛩✨
The animations are just superb and the narration is probably the best I've ever heard.
That was great. Such crisp visuals, and very in depth without wasting time. You would think after all the videos made about this aircraft it would be old news. However it was full little details that I loved to see. 🛩
Woah... you definitely stepped up your game in this one well done :D
That Blue Paw Print intro was just smooth and a welcome addition in my book, like that it still has relaxing music while things are being explained (heck its like a nice little break in the day to just watch this and relax)
I also was surprised when I saw the mutiple units of measurements for one thing (inches & meters for 1 example) I dont know if it was just me or others as well that mentioned it, nevertheless thank you for adding it. Also the degrees of the angles was a little nice addition as well
Keep it up and I can’t wait to see how even more you improve this series as it goes on, here's to more amazing content from you in the future 🖖
This is an extraordinarily high quality and fascinating video. Thank you so much. Looking forward to your next project! Subscribed ❤
Loved it, please keep making long documentaries like these. The resourceful aviation innovations from that era have so much to offer to young enthusiasts. ❤
The breadth of information and attention to detail is stunning beyond compare. I'm binge watching all your movies and will likely watch them again. So incredibly excellent. I can't wait for the next one!
OUTSTANDING... First one of your videos I have seen. Will be looking at the rest. Commented, liked, and notification bell pressed.
this is insane, the amount of details are.
Thank you for such an incredible video about a magnificent airplane.
Wow the best animated video of this awesome aircraft anywhere! The Me262 was way ahead of its time, and outclassed any other ww2 aircraft. Great channel..Subscribed!
A fantastic video, fantastic graphics with a massive amount of details. The final part with the description from engine start to the battle and the landing is amazing. Then the narration is estremely clear even for non English speakers. Excellent work.
Love these videos, can't wait to see more in the future! 👍
Sehr gut gemacht, ruhig in der Sprache und sehr gut verständliche Informationsdichte. Grafik sehr klar und man versteht wunderbar worüber vorgetragen wird. Danke auch für die Abschlusszusammenfassung die kurz und knapp das Flugzeug in Relation zu seiner Wichtigkeit für den Kriegsverlauf bechreibt.
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Ich finde auch, dass ist bisher das bester Video über die Me-262 welches ich gesehen habe.
PS: Gruß aus Niedersachsen.
i really just love the way you set the video up and the calming theme with music and animation. loves the videos
Just a note to say what an extremely wonderful video this was. It nearly brought tears to my eyes. And im not moved by much. I hope that you take this to other aircraft in both historical and current day. Great work. WP
Man I just love the Me-262, such an fantastic German engineering.
Man what an amazing video, instant subscription , animation and graphics as good as Animagraff or JO, great explanation and can’t wait for more content. Mind blowing engineering behind this warplane, I can only imagine the surprise and dropped jaws of the Allies’s pilots when they saw a faster plane without blades. And what a legacy it left us for the entire modern aviation industry.
Very detailed and very demanding content. I enjoyed all its minutes! I really respect all of your effort and hard work you put into this video. I go to check your other contents! Thanks!
I just found this channel. These videos are incredibly well done and fascinating. Th8ank you for the hard work in creating them.
Beautifully done video. 😊 I am fortunate that at the Military History museum where I live , there is a two-seater ,radar equipped, night-fighter version of the ME262, apparently the only one of it's kind left in the world. It is in very good condition . I enjoyed your video.
An excellent video. Please do make more focusing on the most interesting aircraft of WW2 and beyond.
Another great video, thanks BPP!
Do more vids like this about aircrafts, this kind of content is amazing!
Extremely beautiful. And a proper ode to the ME262
Great work. I've never seen such detailed analysis of a historic vehicle! To be fair to the Me-262 it was the only practical WW2 jet fighter and the world's first so it deserves the recognition.
By far the best video on the 262 design and operation
Incredible Video, clearly the BEST such Video Ever made about the Me-262. BRAVO!
Incredible video. Thank you!!!
Beautiful and wonderful plane.
Your animation and 3D model of the airplane is absolutely outstanding, the highlighting of the aircraft parts in perfect synchronization with the explanation depicts the professional preparation and execution of your video, which has a top notch quality level.
I love airplanes, I love building them, flying them and learning all I can of them, and your video is a real delight for any WW2 aviation enthusiast.
Congratulations for your work!
Great video!
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Congrats, Good Enough Production Aircraft Documentary, Organic Fluent Information, Detailed, Precise And Understandable.
Will Share With My Wingmen
Such an awesome detailed video thanks for putting so much effort in bringing up such lovely content ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Its biggest deficiency that should have been easily be remedied in the development Phase is the installation of speed brakes / dive brakes on the wing. Something the pilots did comment on.This is an aircraft that can achieve relatively High subsonic Mach numbers and easily find itself in the dangerous envelope of compressibility. This was not an unknown aerodynamic phenomenon. The lack of these devices made for over cautious Pilots entering high-speed Dives in which they were often caught by piston engine Pursuit Fighters shooting them down. The dive breaks would have allowed them to fly at the very Razor's Edge of their performance envelope with no fear of exceeding their VNE and entering compressibility.
The filler & the doping between the gaps was necessary because the aircraft was designed to be built without Jigs and multiple component cottage industries. The sacrifice is some degree of performance but allows for more efficient mass production in a time of great constraint.
The starters had their own starters a rip cord to pull start the two cycle.
The wing sweep had nothing to do with delaying the onset of compressibility rather keeping the center of gravity correct because of the location of the positions of the wing mounted engines which were longer than the orginal BMW engines planned.
The buttons doubled as circuit breakers, (as in most German designs) pushing inward as buttons popping outward as circuit breakers.
I have seen two original 262's & several of their engines in Germany and the United states as wel as reading several books. The Germans actually used musicians the harmonically balanced the engines.
The Messerschmitt Me-262 was the first jet aircraft to have *ALL* Swept control surfaces and a fly-by-wire Horizontal Stabilator to counteract the effects of compressibility and Mach Tuck. it has the highest critical Mach number performance of any WW2 aircraft.
Adolf Busemann was the world's leading expert on supersonic aerodynamics when the RLMs _Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt_ was built in 1935, it was the only large diameter supersonic aircraft wind tunnel laboratory in world until 1948.
Busemann exhaustively tested the Me-262 to speeds up to 1.4 Mach. in the A8 wind tunnel.
The Reidel APU starters were electric start with switches mounted in the cockpit, the recoil rope starter was available as an axillary back-up method if the batteries were discharged.
This common but completely false urban myth comes from a single dubious source and contradicts all the historical evidence. The Projekt 1065 was conceived from inception to have Busemann's swept wings and tail.
The false CoG claims crumble away upon the slightest scrutiny, the _Projekt 1070_ was a completely different aircraft program and was scrapped in favor of the more aerodynamically advanced Busemann design _Projekt 1065_
*The wings were never changed to alter the CoG.* The Me-262 was flown with 1, 2 and 3 engine configurations with 11 different engines from 7 different manufactures *WITH NO CHANGE IN WING SWEEP ANGLE.*
The planes CoG could be easily adjusted by the moving the position of the nacelles under the wing.
Busemann's 18.5 degree cranked angle swept wing design optimized low speed stall characteristics which was also augmented by automatic retracting leading edge slats... despite its high critical Mach performance the Me-262 had EXCELLENT stall characteristics for a swept wing aircraft.
WOW! Fantastic video here. As an aircraft structures mechanic that has worked on war bird restoration i found this a very interesting look inside one of the worlds most iconic jets. I am subscribed and eagerly awaiting more content!
Thank you so much for making such excellent video. Highly appreciated.
Dear lord this is AMAZING!!! Great idea guys! Hope you keep this up with more planes that have featured in yarnhub's animations!
Your videos are insanely underrated.
I'm blown away at this video. MORE PLEASE!!!
Great stuff guys! Thank you for making these. Excellent!
Dios, este es mi avión favorito de toda la historia humana, este canal ufff... maravilloso
The me262 is a beautiful aircraft. Excellent video!
This is a great video! Really gives you a much better feeling for what it was like.
Beautiful video as always mate!
Very nice documentary on the jet. I think there is one thing that was left out. I believe that the earlier version of the jet……it was originally a tail dragger. I just thought I would like to add that. Great job on making this video. Keep uploading great vids like these 👍
Von Ohain, Dr Anselm Franz who designed and built the first operational jet engine Jumo 004 on which all jet engine we fly today is built.. Not to forget the BMW003 the most advanced in the world at the time.. Nazi Germany was miles ahead of any other country..Luckily for the allies they had very limited resources.
My father was a slave-engineer who worked in that famous cave, probably assisting the chief designers who were mentioned above. He became a specialist in some aspects of engine tuning as may be seen in one particular video, where he is remonstrating a technician by wagging a finger at him (perhaps having watched one too many Charlie Chaplin movies) and then stepping up to the camera with a big smile. I have that saved that somewhere.
During this process, my father became a drogue and parachute expert and later had contracts to design and build the same for the Canadian AVRO Arrow jet fighter in 1957.
It was the British that pioneered both types of jet engines. Sir Frank Whittle was fully aware of the pros & cons of both designs but initially chose to go ahead with the centrifugal flow design as metallurgy at that time wasn't up to scratch to make Axial flow engines reliable enough for prolonged use. Even Hans Von Ohain acknowledged this in his book, as he had access to all of Whittle's findings in this field.
@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM Whittle never built a modern Axial compressor turbojet, he lacked the knowledge and experience.
the British would not have a production axial engine for another decade.
Both Whittle and Von Ohain confirmed that neither had any knowledge or the others work... this is also evident in the fundamental differences in each man's designs.
No way, you did it! thanks for including metric system, you have a new suscriber. Also nice plane choice again.
it sounds pretty accurate... Very good video!
Continue the good job!
Waiting for the next documentary!
One of the 1st three point landing gear ...
Lovely graphics. Iconic plane.
Vi um M62 no museu da tecnologia de Munique, ! È Espetacular! Isso em 1971. Ótimo vídeo!
OP this is one of the most excellent deep-dive type descriptions I ever saw. This is an outstanding documentary film, maybe the only thing I'd add is to edit in some real life photos and footage of the components and actions in question with the (really extremely good) artwork.
This is such an underrated channel
What is most amazing about the Me262 is that despite the insanity of the Nazi regime there were incredibly gifted engineers and designers who could bring this machine to fruition. War does force innovation, but this aircraft is extraordinary for the day. Your presentation is excellent and well documented. Thank you for your research and attention to detail. I held my 1/48th scale model and looked it over while following the video.
It sucked very much
@@promanminecraftnocap9446 be specific... you mean it sucked air?
@@promanminecraftnocap9446troll much?
i mean it barely flew@@theophilhist6455
its true tho. @@WilhelmKarsten
Great job. Thanks for the inch and feet translations. Great Video.
Man this is the Video i needed thank you!
You said the flaps increased the surface area of the wings. I may be mistaken, but the flaps you showed did not change the surface area but rather increased the camber (or curvature) of the wings, thus providing extra lift.
This isn't just a video. This is a recreation of that plane. ❤❤❤❤
What a Glorious aircraft this one is. Wonderful video too. Thank you.
Subbed immediately once I saw the ambition level of the 3D-work. Just off the charts. Incredibly great work.
Love this kind of videos.
Amazing job like always.
🥐 from France 😉
c'est vrai ! j'ai mis une appréciation en français
Beautiful plane and video such impressive tactics and technology and also thanks for telling how they aimed I always wondered that so yea great good, oh and could you make one of the Zero ?
Fascinating video, I love the little easter egg with Galland.
This is really so perfect..well done 🙏🏻
I like this type of video, very informative!
Thank you very much to make this high quality and explanatory video.
I am developing Me262A free mod for DCS with my colleagues and details shared will add much good features on it.
Keep doing such good work and research! Thumbs up to you!!! 👏🙌👍
This is fantastic ! Keep up the good work !
Fine video !
Thanks for posting.
David does it again. :3
Now do the Meteor, the Allies' first operational jet!
Thanks.
Everything in this movie is exellent:
1. Beautiful plane.
2. Informative 3-d models.
3. Interesting text.
4. Not hurrying speech.
5. Pleasant voice.
6. Oxford pronunciation.
7. Correct translation into Russian.
Although you have only 2 videos, I subscribed.
Greetings from Gambia from a Russian person!
Amazing report. Great detail.
Many thanks.
Excellent presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it!
👍A very nicely made video with first-class illustrations. If the Me-262 had been operational earlier, it would have had more influence on the course of the war. It was a groundbreaking design for the time.
Wow, i love 3D explanation of ship planes ecc
Only 2 yet fantastic videos. Subscribed! More please!