Messerschmitt - Me-262a-1a
Red 2
SCHWALBE - "Swallow"
AvHistory - Version-4.00.165

John Whelan BRAVO/4 has painted the Swallow as Red 2 of 10./NAGr 11.  It was the presonal aircraft of Fw (sergeant) Karl Heinz Becker. This plane uses a custom painted cockpit by Alex Mets' who is better known as Artmag-Reloaded aka artmag.



Fw Karl Heinz Becker was a pure jet ace scoring all 7 of his kills while flying the Me-262.

Two skins are included - both Summer & Winter camouflage.  The Me-262 will automatically change camouflage patterns based on what season you select for CFS3 to be in.



Developed from a 1938 design by the Messerschmitt company, the Me 262 "Schwalbe," ("Swallow") was the worlds first operational turbojet aircraft. First flown as a pure jet on July 18, 1942, it proved much faster than conventional airplanes.



Development problems, Allied bombings, and cautious Luftwaffe leadership contributed to delays in quantity production. In late 1943, Adolf Hitler agreed to mass production, but insisted the aircraft be used primarily as a fighter-bomber.

On July 25, 1944, an Me 262 became the first jet airplane used in combat when it attacked a British photo-reconnaissance Mosquito flying over Munich. As a fighter, the German jet scored heavily against allied bomber formations. The bombers, however, destroyed hundreds of Me 262s on the ground. More than 1,400 Me 262s were produced, but fewer than 300 saw combat.

Most remained on the ground awaiting conversion to bombers, or were unable to fly because of lack of fuel, spare parts, or trained pilots.

NOTES:

This aircraft has a very accurate Turbo-Jet engine sound package which is quite large.  Since the sound package is so large we have created a separate zip file for it (Twin Turbojet Engine Sound Package) available for download from the 'Engine Sounds" section of our web site.

These sounds were recorded & developed by AEROMUSICA, Benoit Plamondon & Mark Cranston. We thank them for their permission to use them with our jets.

For night flying the Me-262 is equipped with external & instrument panel lights. To activate these lights you must download & install the three "LightEffects" zip files from the AvHistory Files section of our web site.



This package development has been spearheaded by Guy FOX Greenberg, Ed GZR_Groundhog Wilson & Steve O1 Dunn.  Also Art MUSTANG Smith who spent a lot of hours testing the package.



These effects files also contain many effects from the MAW package & we are very grateful to our fellow Desert Rats for permission to use these outstanding effects files.

BEAR
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