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Me-262 Schwalbe, First Jet Fighter

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Title: Me-262 Schwalbe, First Jet Fighter

Caption: The world's first operational jet fighter, the Me-262 Schwalbe, was powered by two Junkers Jumo 004 B turbine engines and had sleekly swept wings and a powerful armament of four 30-mm cannons. Nicknamed Schwalbe (Swallow), the Messerschmitt Me 262 surpassed the performance of every other World War II fighter. Faster than the North American P-51 Mustang by 190 kilometers (120 miles) per hour, the Schwalbe restored to the faltering German Luftwaffe a short-lived qualitative superiority that it had enjoyed earlier in the war.

Credit: Album / Science Source / Mark Avino/Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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Image size: 6618 × 4206 px | 79.6 MB

Print size: 56.0 × 35.6 cm | 2605.5 × 1655.9 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: 1940S • BLACK BACKGROUND • FIGHTER JET • FIRST • GERMAN LUFTWAFFE • GERMAN • GERMANS • HISTORY • II WORLD WAR • ME 262 SCHWALBE • ME 262 • ME-262 • MESSERSCHMITT • NAZI • SECOND WORLD WAR • TECHNOLOGY • WAR (WORLD WORLD 2) • WAR PLANE • WORLD WAR 2 • WORLD WAR II • WORLD WAR TWO • WW II • WWII