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.
