Messerschmitt Me 262: Arrow to the Future tells the dramatic story
of the Me 262\s combat career as a fascinating chain of events in
which planning, luck, and even blind stupidity played important
roles. Even by today\s engineering standards, magnificent is the
only word to describe the effort to bring the plane\s jet engines,
which eclipsed the performance of all contemporary aircraft, from
the laboratory to production in an amazingly short time.\nArrow to
the Futrue also tells the story of the people who flew the Me262 in
combat. Their complete accounts bring their missions to life and
set the plane in the historical context of the war. The German
narratives are complemented by the accounts of Americans who flew
against the Me 262 - for instance, the team of crack USAAF pilots
known as "Watsons\s Whizzers," who literally stole a fleet of jet
aircraft from German airfields at the end of the war.\nAlso
described are the postwar efforts to test and preserve the Me 262.
Included is a description of the efforts to obtain one of these
aircraft for display at the National Air and Space Museum, and the
painstaking efforts by the team at the Smithsonian\s Paul E. Garber
Facility for Preservation, Restoration, and Storage to restore the
Me 262 to its pristine condition.\nThis new reprint edition is
lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs, including
operational photos from World War II, color views of the cockpit,
and interior and exterior shots of the restored Me 262. In addition
to the striking photographs, there are expert technical drawings,
cutaway illustrations, and equipment and conversion tables.
\nWalter J. Boyne is the author of many books including The
Smithsonian Book of Flight, The Leading Edge, Boeing B-52: A
Documentary History and Phantom in Combat, as well as the novels
The Wild Blue, Trophy for Eagles and Air Force Eagles.
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