Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ABDCWOT on June 30, 2012, 03:39:23 PM
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The Collings Foundation (http://www.collingsfoundation.org/menu.htm) was at the McClellan AFB here in Sacramento a few weeks ago. They allowed me to go past the ropes and take some close up pics of their 2 seater Me262. So....here go
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Beautiful bird...
-abdc
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sweet! thank u for sharin :aok
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Thanks for sharing!
.. so refreshing to know a Museum that does it right .. they weren't all shiny!
(even though they were 'new' ..most WW2 aircraft just did not survive long)
-Frank aka GE
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Cost 128 perks just to take pics of the bird :)
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Awesome pics
DANKE!
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:aok :rock
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i could look at pics like those all day. :aok :aok :aok
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I see the pull start ring for the two stroke engine that starts those engines.
Does this plane have the original engines?
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262 porn..mmmmm baby
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Did you get to see it fly? Nice pics!
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I see the pull start ring for the two stroke engine that starts those engines.
Does this plane have the original engines?
Nope.
Basically the same engine on 20 series Lears. Dressed up of course to look like a Jumo 004 without popping panels. If you've ever seen a CJ-610 (or J85) on a stand or just undressed of cowlings and accessories you could almost fit them on a skateboard.
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
:aok
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Did you get to see it fly? Nice pics!
Unfortunately I didn't. They'll be here again next year. The pilot(s) were out with their other planes & I didn't have time to stick around. Here it is on a YouTube I found...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VCLdO-myfY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
-ab
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Nope.
Basically the same engine on 20 series Lears. Dressed up of course to look like a Jumo 004 without popping panels. If you've ever seen a CJ-610 (or J85) on a stand or just undressed of cowlings and accessories you could almost fit them on a skateboard.
They must have done a ton of research on fitting that cone that holds the original pull start ring.
From the front, it looks nearly the same as the original.
Nice work by those guys.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Riedelanlasser.jpg/800px-Riedelanlasser.jpg)
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Thanks for posting :aok
:salute
BigRat
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Unfortunately I didn't. They'll be here again next year. The pilot(s) were out with their other planes & I didn't have time to stick around. Here it is on a YouTube I found...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VCLdO-myfY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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No research at all. The Collings Foundation bought this plane, they didn't build it.
This plane is a brand new production 262 made by the ME-262 Project located at Paine Field in Washington. They got one of the two last remaining ME-262s that had not been restored by anyone, which was White 35 previously located at Willow Grove NAS. They disassembled it piece by piece and began re-manufacturing the entire aircraft piece by piece using White 35 as the template. They did however make a few very minor modifications such as ever so slightly increasing the inlet size to allow for better performance during higher AOA's.
They are only making 5 aircraft total, two B-1C models (two seats), one A-1C model (one seat), and two A/B-1C models (which can be converted between the two). Of the five aircraft, only 3 are going to be airworthy at this time, however, i believe the other two can be refinished to an airworthy state.
The "C" in the -1C refers to the J-85 powerplants used. Due to the nature of reverse engineering and manufacturing process, these are indeed "real" ME-262's and not just replicas, and have the next five sequential werk numbers from where the Germans left off nearly 70 years ago assigned to them.
Nice pics. If I only had 2 million dollars, I would own me one of them there jets.