ME-262: The World's First Jet Fighter

OUR STORY BEGINS IN EGYPT.
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[@johnisaz]

"In the form of the passeng" .... Video ends abruptly. Noice

[@imouse3246]

Unfinished teaser?

[@MisterAndrewBuckley]

Danny's out of the basement

[@nmspy]

Intheformofthepasngr

[@johnbockelie3899]

My Grandmother was born in 1900, and had her first flight on a Boeing 747 in 1979 at age 79.all that time the airplane evolved.

[@rgeorgek42]

That’s why it’s a Sideprojects video...haha

[@zsoltsandor3814]

Simon's plane of thought was shot down by an ME-262.

[@annescholey6546]

Achtung Englander!

[@tdietz021]

Breaking news, smug Englishmen says me262 was trash.

[@maxsignori7660]

My great grandmother was born 10 years before the Wright brothers' flight, in 1893. She died at the age of 106 in 1999, almost one year after the first module of the ISS was launched. What a century she has witnessed.

[@grillodofus]

0.0 thats truly awesome.

[@1980bwc]

She was so close to being living in 3 Centuries.

[@Fusionfreakdrummer]

Wow....🙏 Very interesting, thank you for sharing.

[@maxs.3238]

@@1980bwc there's a documentary about the last ww1 vets made in the early 2000s starring some British gents that accomplished exactly that. I think the last one of those guys died in 2004 if I remember correctly, haven't watched it in a while... I should, it's good stuff, thanks for reminding me👍

[@johandewitt9911]

and what an criminal time we are experience now. Politicians who hate the population is normal now!

[@bradmiddleton62]

Our story begins in Egypt and ends abruptly mid sentence.

[@nohomointellectualis4217]

@@intellectual220 True but too many things come from Greece so we lose the count xD

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

I guess with 12 channels Simon no longer has time to finish his sentences.

[@mammuchan8923]

Cliffhanger - Now we’ll never know if jet engines were ever developed for commercial flight ...

[@peach_25]

Yeah, the quality of his videos have dropped to the point where they are a time waster.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

@@peach_25 isn't that the whole point of YT, to waste time? It's hardly a place for a quality education. Curiosity Stream, Great Courses+, and other sites they pitch are better for that.

[@Doramius]

I still watched it all the way through, and 'liked' it, even though he didn't get a chance to say it.

[@conorf8091]

@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 go watch Greg’s planes and automobiles if you want to really learn about ww2 aircraft 😄

[@canbeast]

“..in the form of a pass....enger airliner. So I really hope you enjoyed that video, if you did smash like that button and hit that subscriber button and we’ll see you next time”

[@brotherbrownstone]

Thank you stand in Simon!!! (I actually was wondering if my PC gave up or if it was Yooooooootooobe being a bitch, now I know!)

[@champagne.future5248]

Thank you. I now have closure and can die in peace.

[@zafarsyed6437]

Better ask Simon for a small paycheck!

[@mammuchan8923]

Nailed it💬

[@ImTheJoker4u]

You beat me to it😂👍

[@citizenblue]

RIP Chuck Yeager. Absolute Legend

[@dansmith7131]

Needs a Biographics video

[@o0oTyPow]

Absolutely a legend! And Chuck needs a BIO for sure! He was my inspiration growing up and I am sad he passed yesterday.

[@jonrolfson1686]

@@o0oTyPow If there is a heaven, I hope that 'Glamorous' Glennis was there to greet him.

[@o0oTyPow]

@@jonrolfson1686 And breaking the sound barrier together again!

[@oldenweery7510]

@@jonrolfson1686 Right, and maybe Pancho Barnes has a duplicate "Happy Bottom Riding Club" in Heaven, where all the Great Ones are hanging out! Great woman, great flyer. Stay safe.

[@Skyfox94]

Since you mentioned the engines trying to rip themselves apart... this reminds me of a very old WW2 flight simulator i used to play as a kid, IL2 Sturmovik. That game allowed you to fly, amongst many other planes, the Me-262. One of the things that burnt into my memory was that, if you throttled up to quickly in the 262 one, or both of its engines would just catch fire.

[@3aster]

I bet that game was made by usa or britain

[@MattnessLP]

Oh yeah I remember that, both the game and that self-destructive behaviour of the Me-262 😂

[@yayeetmeoffacliff4708]

​@@3asternope. It was made in Russia by 1C iirc. They're still making more sequels like IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad or IL-2: Cliffs of Dover

[@Gjsolo64]

the passenger what? *I NEED TO KNOW SIMON! YOU CANT JUST END THE VIDEO LIKE THAT D":*

[@stevenwallace773]

The passenger fighter jet 😂

[@c.l.7525]

The passenger bus.

[@lilbill6089]

Pigeon

[@jonrolfson1686]

The passenger had to clear customs and immigration in Atlanta and just missed the connecting fligh...

[@Gjsolo64]

@@jonrolfson1686 ahhh kk makes sense

[@o0oTyPow]

I, too, vote for a bio on Chuck. Not sure how many have already mentioned it already, but I did see a few!

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

If he doesn't do one, I'm gonna smash that dislike button

[@kitop310]

5:49 "Every modern jet fighter..."

[@lucromel]

66 years from first flight, to man walking on the moon.

[@andrevanderwalt2515]

Epic progress!!! Was going to comment this, but you beat me to it

[@shanehebert3237]

Chuck Yeager truly is the legend of legends.

[@johnkrall6793]

Now, can we get a Biographics video on him?

[@tgmccoy1556]

@@johnkrall6793 yes.please.

[@sandybarnes887]

RIP Mr Yeager

[@t.r.campbell6585]

Even today this is a beautifully designed aircraft.

[@hertzair1186]

…it was a Revolution

[@comicalcarpet]

Simon seems full of smiles and energy, almost like he's had his daily dose of coca... cola?

[@comicalcarpet]

Were also slightly cut short on the end but Its not ruining the video!

[@wugzig]

Allegedly

[@danieltester5553]

Allegedly

[@sandybarnes887]

Don't forget his other source of energy that fuels him besides cocai... Magic Spoon cereal. Allegedly

[@apeiceofgarbage9848]

@@sandybarnes887 hahahah this was perfect 😂👏

[@tzor]

My father used to tell me a story when he was a POW. Some fighter had spotted a jet (and remember the sound of a jet was totally unknown to him at the time) and was heading towards it when the jet decided to go full speed to escape and basically left the prop fighter standing still. He was convinced that the war was as good as over at that point. Fortunately, it was not.

[@MusashiSamurai]

Please do a biographics on Chuck Yeager, please! He passed away a few days ago...

[@SidneyCritic]

Chuck wasn't that nice a guy in the end. When he was running astronaut training he stopped a black air-force pilot from becoming an astronaut in favour of white astronauts. I guess it was normal back then, but it's not a good look now.

[@comradeclaus]

By that logic the American founding fathers were bad people too. We all agree racism is bad now but it was just too normal back then. Can’t call him a overall bad person for that. I think the people who still treat Blake people and other races like that are the really bad ones.

[@khaccanhle1930]

Yeager was an arrogant a--hole. I knew someone who worked with him personally in the late nineties. He went back on his word and extorted thousands of dollars out of her to finish the project. I can't go into the details, but Chuck was a jerk. I've met a number of honest and kind ww2 aces, he was NOT one of them. Screw Yeager.

[@jamesmoore9271]

The fact that the developers of the first jet engines became friends following the days of the war made me smile.

[@krosteck1793]

The rim shot is spreading throughout the Simon Whistler Extended Universe.

[@russkii81]

I eagerly await the day they all perform a SWEU crossover.

[@krosteck1793]

@@russkii81 lol. Over his dead body I'd imagine.

[@GlenBradley]

Totally caught that.

[@peterhansen8216]

There's a messerschmitt in the garage. I'm gonna go clean it up.

[@sheevone4359]

I'm assuming the one you're talking about is a car...

[@draochvar9646]

@@sheevone4359 Messerschmitt didn't build cars.

[@sheevone4359]

@@draochvar9646 it did but it's not famous for it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Kabinenroller

[@zwins208]

It's got me beat why this isn't on the Mega projects channel.

[@bjw4859]

I'd have to say the ME 262 was my favourite aircraft of all time, & definitely for ww2 combat aircraft. I was obsessed with making model aircraft as a child, specialising in mainly ww2 fighter & bomber aircraft I think I made 50 or 60 before I grew out of it ( sadly ), & the 262 was the only jet aircraft I included in this selection. I actually found the boxes I had them stored in the other day, ( some the worse for wear ), & the 262 was with them. Great video by the way, keep them all up, cheers.

[@pauleveritt3388]

Whittle's engine design was centrifugal and the German design is axial flow. In order to increase the power of a centrifugal engine you have to build it with a bigger circumference. While you can increase the trust of an axial flow engine in the same way, it is generally done by making it longer. This gives the engine more compressor blades. Virtually ALL jet engines are axial flow in design. Whittle's design was abandoned very quickly.

[@johnharrison6808]

Apparently Whittle was aware of the axial flow concept and its advantages but went with centrifugal as it was a better design for the materials available at the time.

[@stevenbreach2561]

@@johnharrison6808 just remember that if it's not German,it must be 'Murcan,nobody else counts

[@johnharrison6808]

@@stevenbreach2561 the American jets during ww2 where rubbish.

[@steviesavagery]

RIP Chuck Yeager, i fee so honored to have sene him in person

[@prof2yousmithe444]

LOVE this channel! One of my favorites!

[@tanzanos]

The German engine was a superior design as it was of the axial airflow type rather than the more primitive centrifugal type of Whittle.

[@skankhunt446]

@Utrinque Paratus that was because germany didnt had acess to heat restiance metall

[@grahamj9101]

You are repeating a myth that has been perpetuated by the German engineering fraternity. Whittle's engines and the British centrifugal flow engines that were developed from it were simpler: however, they were far more reliable, had a better thrust/weight ratio, and were more efficient that the equivalent axial flow German engines. No less important, they had an altogether better throttle response: for instance, if the throttle of a Jumo 004 was opened up rapidly, the engine was liable to surge and flame out. It is well known that Me262 pilots had to climb out to attack the B-17s on a fixed throttle setting. I've seen it described as a "tactic" by a modern-day German test pilot: it was not a "tactic", it was a necessity. The 262s were sitting ducks if caught by P-51s when coming in to land. The axial flow engine was, of course, eventually to become the future. Please check the Wikipedia entry for the Metropolitan -Vickers F.2 engine, to learn how advanced Britain's axial flow engine technology was during the war.

[@robertbruce1887]

Grahamj9101: That is some good information,yes the British jet engines were much more long lasting, if not mistaken, l think they loaned some to the Americans for their first jets.

[@WilhelmKarsten]

​@@skankhunt446Germany invented heat resistant Nickel alloy in 1932... they were a decade ahead of the Allies in metallurgy and engine development

[@WilhelmKarsten]

​@@grahamj9101Centrifugal compressor turbojet engines suffer from extremely low thrust to drag ratio performance due to their larger frontal area. Axial Compressors are significantly more efficient than Centrifugal compressor turbojets which is why their are no supersonic aircraft to ever exist with one and why they are completely extinct in modern aviation.

[@kcharles8857]

Swear to Jebus, we can never get enough of this plane!

[@jordaneggerman4734]

Excellent ending. Probably Simon's best cliffhanger yet!

[@pamelamays4186]

Awwww, Simon, caught ya Blazing! Clever animation.

[@Dr.RichardBanks]

Finally I've been waiting for this one 🙌 my favorite ww2 plane

[@madhumitadatta6400]

I was literally waiting for this video😃

[@Tome4kkkk]

Trivia: In the Hidden and Dangerous 2 game (a gem!) the first set of missions is Operation Snowball, Norway, where your goal is to infiltrate a secret research facility where 262 were being developed. Inside you can find plans and there are plenty of wind tunnel models.

[@laztoth3104]

Simon Whistler another great channel 👍👍🤣🤣!! GODSPEED ..

[@stevejessemey8428]

Never ever lose your passion for explaining Simon 👏👏👏

[@haroldwagner4586]

Awesome video thanks for knowledge

[@tgmccoy1556]

Chuck Yeager: "a bit of a badass." He shouldn't have lived to 97 to die at home in bed. Not that he didn't try. RIP.

[@macsarcule]

Are you a Klingon?

[@cringlator]

I didn't know viking warriors used KZbin.

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

Please, go out and set the example.

[@tgmccoy1556]

@@livinginvancouverbc2247 I was an Aerial firefighter or ten years. DC6/7's slimy red mud on burning trees and all that. But I was referring to Yeager's l Long life beating the odds-similar to my late father in law four bronze stars and a sliver . Normandy, StLo, The Battle of the Bulge, Aachen, Lubendorf Bridge, Liberation for Dachau. He also died at home in bed at 80.

[@tonyennis3008]

He was hard to kill.

[@lawless201]

The plane Yeager "shot down" was landing at the time, had to be done, but not what I would call a fair fight. I know, that's the best kind of fight in a war, but still.

[@darko714]

"If you find yourself in a fair fight, then you haven't planned your mission properly." Col. David C. Hackworth.

[@lawless201]

@@darko714 Is it just me or do you watch a documentary or read about a conflict realize you find yourself rooting for the underdog or having hindsight wish they would have choose the other option, who knows if it would have changed anything, but Plan A didn't work out so well. I do it with WW2 and the Eastern Front. Big Picture, I'm glad the Nazis lost, they were some nasty people, but damn the Cold War wasn't a picnic growing up, I can still hear the "duck and cover" song, and thinking, ya, this is going to protect me homework in the desk then it will me. Didn't the Russians loose more men at Stalingrad the the U.S. did in the entire war ? That must have sucked, but so did hiding under my desk thinking they were trying to kill me.

[@darko714]

@@lawless201 I do find myself thinking of alternate outcomes had things been done differently.

[@marthamryglod291]

Becoming an ace in this way would be the best possible outcome for my own safety. Not fair, sure, but it's war.

[@silverarrowslk]

Absolutely agree another hollow victory. The American pilots had no chance against these machines unless they attacked them when they were taking off or landing. GTF Yeager

[@bigmanlars40]

Am I the only one that had Blue Oyster Cult's ME-262 running thru their head while watching this vid

[@vrod665]

To elevate this from a “side project” to “MegaProject” you could have added the vast complex of facilities both above and below ground to support the development and construction of the 262. MegaProject suggestion - Human Genome Project

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Excellent...You got it right....Thanks

[@deoxys9810]

Simon trying not to show too much absolute legend energy after the pun got a laugh out of me

[@deanbuss1678]

Good video 👍 Chuck Yeager reference really cool.

[@6Shroomie9]

That drum roll, slowly all Simon's channels are becming various levels of the Blaze.

[@Pissedoffdetective]

You chainsawed the end off again Simon

[@MrPossumeyes]

Such a beautiful plane. Nice pic of Whittle using his pocket calculator!

[@ghfdt368]

My great grandfather was a radio operator in a lancaster bomber and he remembered seeing a pair of me-262's. He got told about them but many pilots thought it was superstition and silly rumors.Then on one bombing mission the pilot and the navigator shouted him up to the cockpit to have a look, and their first reaction was "bloody hell thats a flying shark it looks beautiful!" They didnt attack likely because they were low on fuel or had ran out of ammunition, but I can imagine seeing a 262 back in 1944, would have been like seeing a spaceship. My great grandfather passed away in 2012 but he told me a lot of cool stories like this.

[@Consisto77]

This is great stuff! Can you make a video about ho 229 secret german jet of the WW2?

[@alexandercarder2281]

Ok well that ended more abruptly than the ME-262

[@crusinscamp]

You touch on the lack of availability of heat resistant metals. They had an ME-262 on display at the Wings of Freedom museum, a small place on the grounds of the former Willow Grove NAS in PA. This was years ago. I remember the sign for the display mentioned engine life, it was incredibly short, if I recall the time between tear-downs was less than 10 hours to replace burner cans. My father, who served in the Canadian forces, had a couple of interesting stories. During his time in England they would occasionally hear an Allied plane whistling overhead, but they could never catch a glimpse of it. Word soon got around that you had to look where the sound was headed, not where it was. Then they could catch a glimpse of a plane, a plane without a propeller! If they asked their superiors about this "plane without a propeller", the superior would simply say "You didn't see anything". Another time he saw an Allied spotter plane, a plane like a Piper Cub. The spotter plane dove into a depression (like a quarry or small valley) and started circling tightly to stay in the depression. Moments later, a Nazi jet screamed over the depression, intent on shooting down the spotter plane, but he couldn't get enough depression on his guns to line up a shot on the spotter plane. The spotter plane popped out of the depression, only to find the jet still lurking, so he dove back into the depression. This game of cat-and-mouse went on for a few passes, until the jet running low on fuel headed for home. The spotter plane then popped out of the depression and simply went on his way.

[@monkeyofalldjs]

Is this going to re-uploaded with the actual ending????

[@Goats_]

Yo Simon Great Video. Could you do a Biographics on Chuck Yeager?

[@JohnnyWishbone85]

10:49 -- The P-80 was deployed to Europe in very small numbers starting in late December 1944, in a developmental capacity similar to the way that the Germans deployed the 262 in Jagdgeschwader 7. By that time, though, there really wasn't any Luftwaffe to speak of, so the P-80 never saw action. But they *were* deployed.

[@bkjeong4302]

Honestly, the P-80 would have been superior to the Me-262 or Gloster Meteor in WWII.

[@JohnnyWishbone85]

@@bkjeong4302 According to Chuck Yeager, the P-80s performance was virtually identical to the Me-262s.

[@nealramsey4439]

I live about 15 miles from Chuck Yeager's home town. He died a couple of days ago. He was a real legend if there ever was one. He once flew a jet under a bridge here in Charleston WV, for some type of celebration they were having.

[@JEBavido]

RIP, Chuck Yeager. The fastest bad ass.

[@brianhiles8164]

... or the _baddest fast ass..._

[@BarryPennock]

As usual, excellent.

[@joeyr7294]

Chuck Yeager passed away earlier this week or late last week at 96 I think.

[@StuckOnAFireHydrant]

97 and on pearl harbor day I believe. We lost a legend 😢

[@joeyr7294]

@@StuckOnAFireHydrant absolute legend

[@bobdickens3674]

World War II basically “propelled” aircraft technology forward at an insane speed.

[@robertpullen3726]

The total kills of all 262 units was 743 aircraft. Jg7s total was 502. 184 p51s and 50 mosquito night fighters were in the total.

[@WilhelmKarsten]

26 Luftwaffe pilots scored Ace or higher in the Me-262 including the highest scoring jet Ace in history

[@catalist69]

You should do a video on experimental planes in WW2 like the Vought V-173.

[@minus100plus2]

For comparison's sake, one Me 262 @ 87K rm was the equivalent of one Tiger I's original production cost of 88K rm. Those were extremely expensive for them to produce, specially since they were turning out Stug III's and Panthers for ~9-12K rm.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

FWIW: My Mom & Dad were born in 1919 and 1917 respectively. {Both of them are gone now.} I was probably aware of this when they were still living, but I wonder now how AMAZING all the aeronautical developments of the 20th and early 21st centuries must have seemed to them. I remember being amazed at the Apollo moon landings -- I was 8 years old in 1969 -- but to my parents' generation, it must have REALLY seemed like science fiction come to life. Even now, thinking of my daughter {in her mid-30s} and especially my grandson {now 10} the availability of electronics, the internet, and instant communication worldwide -- compared to what was available when I was younger -- in a way seems like science fiction to me

[@wingzero1372]

As a maintainer who works on jets the theory of operation can be simplified into a simple phrase "Suck, bang, blow"

[@brianhiles8164]

_Compress,_ bang, blow, _blow some more._

[@rein-olafpeets3014]

Thanks bro

[@pensepf49]

This thing is so badass I can hardly comprehend

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@Data-sk9ev]

Simon! Do a video on the Antarctic snow cruiser! Please!

[@beachboy0505]

Total megaproject amazing

[@margaritareyes4600]

A great airplane. .a superb design...and a very powerful warbird...besides...the first opetational jet plane ever...and at the time...UNIQUE...

[@peterkerr164]

Best explanation of transition to tricycle landing gear!

[@stuntmanmike37]

Simon Whistler: The Me-262 was the world's first jet fighter. Heinkel He-280: Am I a joke to you?

[@kostaspetropoulos5213]

Hi Michael If i may add the He-178 , and Gloster E28/39 Best Regards

[@AOClaus]

Damn. Another Simon channel I need to subscribe to.

[@HeidiandFranny]

Von Ohain taught propulsion at the University of Florida in the 80's. I missed his class by one year :( but he did give a lecture on how he and a motorcycle mechanic friend developed this initial jet engine. It ran on gasoline and the first time they got it to for up he said it the flames 100' out the back! Great story and a cool memory. He passed away in 1998.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Max Hahn was an engineer and the Master machinist at reknown _Bartels und Becker_ racing engine specialist, he is the nephew of Nobel prize winner Otto Hahn, the Father of Nuclear Chemistry.

[@HeidiandFranny]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 Thanks for that! Really interesting. Amazing minds.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@grayadamson1757]

The Heinkel He 280 was the first turbojet-powered fighter aircraft in the world. It was inspired by Ernst Heinkel's emphasis on research into high-speed flight and built on the company's experience with the He 178 jet prototype. A combination of technical and political factors led to it being passed over in favor of the Messerschmitt Me 262. Only nine were built and none reached operational status.

[@JerryCrow]

Simon WOW! Once a project fit for its channel!

[@ianstradian]

My great grandmother was 93 when she past in 1996. Born in 1903 she saw men dream of flight, learn to fly, flat across the country and then the seas. She watched as the human race gained the ability to put a human being on the Moon. The technological leap from non flight to flight was amazing. To go from the Wright Brothers first flight to landing a human on the moon in one lifetime, is amazing.

[@MrRandomcommentguy]

the world's first operational jet fighter is still one of the most beautiful

[@leneanderthalien]

first operational yes but only 3 months before the Gloster Meteor, but the first ~completed squadron was meteor before me 262...

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:15 - Chapter 1 - The origin of jet power 2:35 - Chapter 2 - From concept to reality 4:35 - Chapter 3 - Close to rocket science 7:45 - Chapter 4 - The birth of a new age 10:25 - Chapter 5 - High flying legacy

[@ABC-48483]

This is awsome

[@kinglouiev9530]

The American P-39 Airacobra was the first fighter plane that incorporated the use of a tricycle landing gear. It also has the engine in the middle of the plane instead of the front which is unusual.

[@perrydowd9285]

This is a very Blazey Channel.👍👍👍

[@chrisalfano589]

The audio of the first meeting is fantastic. Gpa was a LTC in air force from 44-73. The pilots honestly didn’t know what it was... the word F$&k was used a lot

[@A.J.1656]

Do a video explaining what "begs the question" means and how people trying to sound smart use it incorrectly when they mean "raises the question".

[@elrjames7799]

@A H. Excellent observation: the mistake occurs frequently. Nice user-name initials, by the way.

[@LtColShingSides]

I saw that! Where's Brian?! He's got to keep count!

[@plane_simple]

The MiG 15 and the F86 were more " inspired" by the Messerschmitt Project P 1101 and the Focke Wulf Ta 183 Project, if you compare available images.

[@garry1214]

Great topic, thanks. And yes Yeager was a Badass for sure.

[@itsjustkevin6652]

Love the ending...

[@benmoore8537]

Great content Simon as usual, one small error however is that the ME262 ran on jet fuel, which is very similar in composition to kerosene. Which ironically is the one thing that Germany had an abundance of.

[@aabb-zz9uw]

Germany made fuel from coal as import of fuel was not possible during the war. The japanese used pine coal to make fuel for their zero fighters.

[@M3PH11]

7:44 "Ze operation history......." LOL Simon made a funny!

[@15Indianajon]

One of my favourite Aircraft of all time!

[@peten2956]

Simon, please do the Type-XXI u boat

[@joeMFG]

I've seen one in person, National Museum of Naval Aviation Pensacola FL. so badass

[@jackharter660]

I'll always love my grandpa he was almost of military age during the Spanish-American War. He served in the Cuban occupation Army at the end of the Spanish-American War. He was alive during the first moon landing and thought it was just another science-fiction program. He was a little resistant to the idea that it was real but at least he had a good excuse, not like the confused and disorientated young people that claim we never went to the Moon.

[@conradsmith4696]

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star was an American jet fighter build in 1943, two of the planes were used in reconnaissance in the italian theatre. It was also one of the first production model planes to have the jet engine within the fusilage.

[@leneanderthalien]

yep was not possible to put a german engine in the fuselage because did overheat and only 1 engine was far to weak , but the first P80's had many engine issues...

[@michaelschultz342]

A Jet Engine operates upon a Simple Four(that's 4) Step Principle: #1- Suck #2- Squeeze #3- Bang #4- Blow...... Any more Questions?

[@Talltrees84]

They were flying if you count balloons and gliders. But you are correct regarding heavier than air motorized aircraft post Wright Bros.

[@alanrogers7090]

Simon, my grandfather was born in Linz, Austria-Hungary in 1900. He really did see mankind go from horses and primitive automobiles on dirt paths to jet airliners and rockets that put men on the moon and a highway system in the United States that let you drive across the country in less than a week. All in his lifetime. He passed away in 1994, after falling and breaking his hip. My Mother just turned 97 last week. Hopefully this trend will carry on through the generations. I was born in 1950, during President Truman's administration, and here I am, seventy years later, about to usher in President Biden. I see in some of the comments about the passing of General Yeager. He, like myself and family, came from West Virginia. He, like my Mom, was 97. It must be the mountain air.

[@brandonverkruyse297]

Simon, im running out of room on my feed for any more youtube channels.

[@arlingo]

Well done again, Simon. Next, could you

[@honderdzeventien]

Yeah!!! The 262! It feels like it's my birthday