Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gofaster on December 26, 2002, 10:39:25 AM
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I'm sure this was probably posted earlier, but I figured I'd pass along the press blurb fro AvWeb.Com.
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"NEW" ME 262 TAKES FLIGHT: One of the most ambitious heritage aircraft
projects ever undertaken took off Dec. 20. After almost 10 years of
technical work and bureaucratic tinkering, a serial production
representative Me 262 twin-engine jet fighter took a 30-minute hop from
Paine Field, Wash., with Wolf Czazia at the controls. The flight was a
"complete success." A dream of Classic Fighter Industries President
Stephen L. Snyder since the early 1990s, Snyder found an unmodified
original 262, owned by the Navy, and worked a deal to dismantle the
original for use as a template, later returning it in restored
condition. Construction began on the "new" 262 in 1993 in Texas. The
project shifted to Washington in 1997 where a team made up mainly of
retired Boeing personnel saw it through.