Author Topic: Paine Field ME262 on Discovery channel tonight (Read 250 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** March 31, 2004, 07:26:24 AM »

An email from Jim at the ME262 Project from yesterday:

Just a reminder, tomorrow night (Wednesday) the Discovery Channel will broadcast "Seven Wonders - Mega Jets" at 10pm ET. The Me 262 Project is one of the airplanes featured in this telecast....along with the Boeing 777, the Concorde and others.

Jim Byron

gofaster · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2004, 07:54:49 AM »

Is this the group that's building fresh ME262's using templates taken from a museum bird, powered by modern jet engines that sit inside casts of the original BMW jet engines for appearance?

I recall that they had 1 of the planes up and flying, going through trials. Have they received airworthiness certificates yet?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2004, 07:59:32 AM »

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Originally posted by gofaster
Is this the group that's building fresh ME262's using templates taken from a museum bird, powered by modern jet engines that sit inside casts of the original BMW jet engines for appearance?

I recall that they had 1 of the planes up and flying, going through trials. Have they received airworthiness certificates yet?

Yes, same planes. No, they haven't received their certs yet, next flight is very soon though. Here are some pics from last fall that I took when Raub was in town:

CMC Airboss · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2004, 01:45:26 PM »

Thanks for posting Rip!

MiG

CMC Airboss · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2004, 01:54:26 PM »

Here's a shot from the first test flight of the new-build airplane.

And a couple of shots of the aircraft in production

MiG

gofaster · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2004, 01:56:02 PM »

Would they speed up production if we bombed their factory?

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2004, 02:13:35 PM »

Holy sweetass batman!! How much for one of those!?!?!?!

dude

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 31, 2004, 02:16:39 PM »

Are all the ones they make going to be smurfy two seaters?

Raubvogel · « **Reply #8 on:** March 31, 2004, 02:40:31 PM »

No, some of them are configurable as either one or two seaters, and I think 2 of them are going to be single seat only.

hyena426 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 31, 2004, 02:52:03 PM »

heard they were going to be a over a million a pop,,pretty cool idea to remake the 262,,have to agree the single seats look much better:) one of the best lookin first jet fighters ever made<~~if i had the money to blow i would get one,,,sence faa wont let civilan planes fly over the speed of sound anyway