Jet Fighters Jet Bombers & V-Weapons

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Jet Fighters Jet Bombers & V-Weapons screen title.

Documentary (2016)
French title: Les dernières armes d'Hitler

Last chance weapons for Nazis.

De Havilland DH98 Mosquito

De Havilland DH98 Mosquito of the RAF.

Heinkel He 178

Drawing board design.

Heinkel He 178.

Heinkel He 178 V1

Pictures of maiden flight on 27 August 1939.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Heinkel He 178 V1.

Heinkel He 280 V3

First flight on July 5 of 1942.

Reg.GJ+CB Heinkel He 280 V3.

Heinkel He 280 V5

First flight on July 26 of 1943. Did not receive any jet engines.

Reg.GJ+CD Heinkel He 280 V5.

V4 Prototype first flight by2 October 1941, bearing the radio call sign letters (Stammkennzeichen) KE+SW. Set a new world speed record of 1,004.5 km/h. Ten Me 163A (V4-V13) were built for pilot training and further tests; these were unarmed.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Reg.KE+SW Messerschmitt Me 163A V4

Messerschmitt Me 163A & Messerschmitt Me 163B

From left to right.

Messerschmitt Me 163A and Messerschmitt Me 163B

Messerschmitt Me 163B-0

Walter HWK 109-509A rocket engine.

Messerschmitt Me 163B-0

Fuelling C-Stoff / T-Stoff propellant.Both fuel and oxidizer were toxic and required extreme care when loading in the aircraft.

Messerschmitt Me 163B-0

To help prevent explosions, the engine and the propellant storage and delivery systems were frequently and thoroughly hosed down and flushed with water run through the propellant tanks and the rocket engine's propellant systems before and after flights, to clean out any remnants.

Messerschmitt Me 163B-0

Get into the Cockpit.

Messerschmitt Me 163B-0

Instrument panel.

Messerschmitt Me 163B-0

Messerschmitt Me 163B-1

Registration +14. Luftwaffe's first dedicated Me 163 fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 400. [ See discussion tab].

Reg.+14 Messerschmitt Me 163B-1 of the Luftwaffe.

Towed by a Scheuch Schlepper.

Reg.+14 Messerschmitt Me 163B-1 of the Luftwaffe.

Feldwebel Siegfried Schubert was the most successful pilot, with three bombers shot down to his credit.

Reg.+14 Messerschmitt Me 163B-1 of the Luftwaffe.

Messerschmitt Me 163B-1

From fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 400.

Reg.+05 Messerschmitt Me 163B-1 of the Luftwaffe.

Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Reg.+04 Messerschmitt Me 163B-1 of the Luftwaffe.

I./JG 400's base at Brandis, near Leigzig.

Messerschmitt Me 163B-1 of the Luftwaffe.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress of the USAAF.

Messerschmitt Me 262 V1

P.1065 V1, first prototype, initially powered by a single Jumo 210G with 2 blades propeller in the nose, but later fitted with two BMW P.3302 turbojet engines. Redesignated Me 262 V1 in April 1941. Registration PC+UA.