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A Engine, a firewall and doors and windows like the spitfire and Hurricane? How can this leak and danger be so different and unique?? Very weird weakness.

Service ceiling of B-17 was 35,000 feet but only when all four engines were running perfectly. The practical ceiling was considerably lower.

I don't think the ME 262 would have made any difference at all. its Achilles heel was in fact a jumo engine which was absolutely awful. It had a life expectancy of between 10 and 20 hours if you treated it well. Materials simply weren't available for axial flow engines at the time. There are recorded incidents where pilots have actually fried the engines on startup. The jumo fuel control units made it very difficult to make any throttle adjustments in flight. Half the time aircraft flamed out if you did. It's worth noting, as well that the aircraft died with the war, whereas the Gloucester meteor went on to be developed into quite a nice aircraft.

The English nicknaming these "doodlebugs" is kinda hilarious. The V1's grandchildren though like the American Sentinel ICBM isn't so hilarious and might as well just be renamed to "Armageddon" because that's basically what it would cause...

The 262 would have been a pain but had major issues like fuel, which in reality mustangs would wait for them at their airfields and smoke them on landing

Not really my subject but what a fascinating video, the plane seemed to be a bit like the Post Office's Horizon computer system with a lot of bugs. Of course the Typhoon wasn't the only plane which could kill the pilot. It is said that the Camel killed more pilots than it shot down in WW1. And, while not as dangerous a friend who was in the RAF said when he tested the Hawker Hunters guns the engine stopped, fortunately he wa ove over the North Sea and high enough to get home safely.

It's absurd to suggest the ME 262 couldn't have changed the war. But I think you know that. Whatever.

Gee Galland is so full of scheisse. If it was such a fantastic _Tommy Stopper_ then why didn't he step into one instead of staying with his nearly 10 year old design Messershit 109? Maybe if the Henschel Hs 132 had been produced in large numbers with at least some quality control then they may have had some influence. After all, quantity is a quality of it's own. Having 2 or 3,000 would have inflicted some damage and sufficient pilots would have survived to become proficient and be a tad troublesome. However the 8th Air Force and Bomber Command would have had many _maximum efforts_ raids to slow down if not stop manufacture of these toys. Using slave labour to assemble them and many other weapons was a massive mistake by the _mass debater race_ too fortunately.

The Big Wing was deployed at just the right time as Spitfires were rolling off the line more quickly (thanks to Beaverbrook). The Big Wing was the biggest psy ops victory of the battle and saved a lot of lives as the LW recoilled at the sudden show of force, just when they were told the RAF was on its knees.

ME163 ( dangerous to fly ), Bolton Paul defiant ( slow and sent on suicidal missions ( any mission involving combat would've been ), HE177 ( overheating issues ).

Quantity always overruns quality.

None. Pilots and gunners did the shooting...

Hurricane had no room for improvement, being a lightweight glass cannon that barely kept course in stronger winds

That’s not taking into account RAF Lancasters bombing the synthetic oil plants. That in turn affected the fuel needed for the ME-262s.

Well we'll never know the actual effectiveness of say 500 or 1000 262's but one thing is for sure it quiet possibly woiuld of made some changes in bombing strategy more so daylight raids than night raids possibly more fighter cover who knows this argument is consigned to the history books now

During the later stages of the Normandy Campaign ground attack was banned because of blue on blue incidents!

The British had the Meteor, which was comparable to the Me 262. They were very effective at chasing V1's over England, but lacked range and endurance. The Allies also found that their long-ranged fighters were capable of combating the Me 262 - early jet engines had poor acceleration.

Totally different aircraft, built for totally different purposes. The only thing in common they have is twin engines

no, both the british and the usa had jets ready to produce. a nazi is trying to justify hitler's program

Think they were deployed as targets for Naval guns

When I was growing up, my prize toy was an intricate die-cast model of a P-38 Lightning. Thought it was the coolest aircraft in WW2. Don't know what ever happened to that toy, it's been 57 years since I can remember playing with it.

Coulda,woulda,etc.the day and night bomber offensive stopped them building more,fulling them and training pilots. It worked. It got rid of nazis scourge.

Not really, Galland is engaging in “woulda, shoulda, coulda” and “madman Hitler” as an excuse for losing the air war. A more nuanced examination of history shows that the reasons the ME-262 was delayed was not solely due to Hitler but other issues in its design and development. Blaming Hitler is a way to blame your mistakes on someone nobody will defend, and capitalizes on a narrative that is readily accessible

Could of, should of, would of

Like a lot of alternative histories, this one seems to assume that the opposition would not have adapted to the new threats. I suspect that the Allied forces would have adapted quickly. If nothing else, the P-51's would have gotten ADI and some groups would have been placed high enough to dive on the 262s while others would fly low to catch them as they were trying to land. Meteors would have been used to escort bombers and the P-80 program would have been accelerated. B-29s and the Atomic bombs would have been used in Germany. The ground war would still have continued, likely with more of Germany ending up in Russian hands. In the end, Germany would likely have come out of the war even worse.

Considering the engine was rebuilt every few hours, i dont think it would have mettered

I cant believe after all this they named a tea after it !!!

Nazi philosophy depended on a fantasy view of reality. The magic of wunderwaffen was part of that. Hard to know how much the opportunity cost of all that industrial divertion was.

What about the fuel they needed?

Wonder weapons wouldn't save the reich, allies from the west and soviets from the east, italy surrendered it was only a matter of time.

Nice video, but as you couldn't be bothered to research the name of the Sqn. ( it has always been Trebble One, nothing else !) This throws doubt on everything you say. Show respect, Get It Right. !

Apples and oranges. The P-38 is a primarily a fighter and the Mosquito a fast bomber. I would say the Mosquito is definitely the more versatile of the two. So it really depends on the mission.

Hand-wind the landing gear on carrier aircraft? I've got more important things to do, like trying to stay alive and take-off/land that thing. Give me the Zero, baby, any day (as long as I'm only fighting F4Fs.)

There are a lot of ifs in war. One is that if someone in Britain had have recognised Whittle's genius and put the jet engine on crash priority with Rolls Royce much earlier there could have been a jet at the Battle of Britain. The famous trade with Rover of a tank engine factory for the Whittle jet factory could have been much earlier. Ifs don't win wars. A really good book on the Merlin and early British jets is "Not much of an Engineer" by Sir Stanley Hooker who took on Whittle's early jets and turned out the magnificent Rolls Royce jets.

Made by slave labour...

Lightning no question. The mosquito had no armor meant it was made out of wood. If for no other reason, then the lightning was put together with more robust materials. I acknowledge there are trade-offs. But in the dogfight, I would much rather be in a lightning.

I'd dispute your K:D ratios. By all accounts, the Me262 was not a very forgiving aircraft, and getting the guns on target in the very brief windwos of engagement against a bomber was rather hard. A lot were also shot down during final approach. These were both issues of institutional knowledge, and I would both problems to go away with increased operational experience. Especially if introduced earlier in the war. With better docterine based on experience rather than theory, I'd expect the kill ratio to increase significantly. It certainly had the potential to live up to Gallad's expectation of halting daytime raids. But would it have stopped the war? Hell no. Soviet victory was all but inevitable once they get their production back into high gear. The fighter would have done nothing to stop RAF night time raids. And if Germany had been making major strides in jet technology, Bletchley Park would have read all about it in real time, and Britain would have accelerated its own jet programme. The Meteor and Vampire weren't as fast as the Swallow, but they probably would have been enough to make attack runs on the bombers much harder.

Would have... could have... but you didn't. Not even close.

Or properly trained pilots.

The development money spent on the Spitfire would have gone into Hurricanes. Perhaps we would have seen a thinner wing faster versions and, high altitude variants ?

Not much use without engines.

If the ME-262 had shown up earlier that simply would have sped up deployment of the Gloster Meteor as well as the Lockheed P-80. Both of which were already in limited svc in 1944. We would have adjusted.

If those Me's wouldn't have defended the Romanian oil fields, then not even 10000 jet planes wouldn't have stopped the Western Offensive. Technology can be a powerful tool. But like all tools, tehnology is useless if not used properly.