Heinkel He 280

The Heinkel He 280 was the first turbojet-powered fighter aircraft in the world. It was inspired by Ernst Heinkel's emphasis on research into high-speed flight and built on the company's experience with the He 178 jet prototype. A combination of technical and political factors led to it being passed over in favor of the Messerschmitt Me 262. Only nine were built and none reached operational status.

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[MrTubbymarshall]

@ned262626 i can agree with this, and very well put too.

[ProjectFlashlight612]

@ned262626 I never mentioned the Yanks. Huh? So US-centric, you people. Britain fought in the war, too, you know. Ummmm...but since you asked...how did the Yanks help win the war...hmmmm...lemme think....maybe BOMBING THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF CITIES AND FACTORIES IN GERMANY AND JAPAN DAY AFTER DAY FOR YEARS? REDUCING AIRFIELDS AND SYNTH-PETROL PLANTS TO HEAPS OF RUBBLE? Just possibly that might have hastened the end a little bit? Fuck the Yanks, anyway...Russia coulda won on its' own.

[ned262626]

@ProjectFlashlight612 i think your off about your idea of the us helping to win the war.

fact: 93% of german military deaths were from soviet bullets. the other 7% came from polish , italian, french , british, american , etc soldiers.

given this fact tell me why the usa had any real impact on the germans losing please

[MrJdsenior]

Um, isn't this video about an early prototype jet design? Incredibly advanced for its time. Good thing the Germans had a lunitic for a leader, because I can tell you as an engineer, their engineering capability at the time was stellar!

[ProjectFlashlight612]

@nethead4223 Surely the only thing that matters is that the evil genocidal bastards were defeated? It's just a shame we had to ally ourselves with a dictatorship that was just as bad as Hitler's in order tro get the job done.

[itsmimanu2010]

el primer avion a reacion q grande

[MokomaSusi]

@nethead4223

During the "Operation Overlord" allied tank casualties were 4000 tanks. Germans lost over 2000 tanks.

Then let's take notice that many (perhaps majority) of those allied tanks were destroyed with anti-tank guns, panzerfauts, mines and so on. In the end german tanks didn't even get 2:1 kill ratio against allied tanks. You claim that allies needed four tanks to knock out one enemy tank? That's simply not true.

[ickysdad]

@nethead4223 Well the Panther was maybe given credit for it but far more often then not,with alot of recent scholarship, it was german infantrymen supporting said tank knocking out those Shermans with Panzerfausts,anti-tank guns or mines laid or a STG III, JagdPanzer or other selp-propelled anti-tank gun. Per last sentence it wasn't the US that stole from Germans,remember as I've stated before the V-2 program owed alot to an American Robert Goddard ,who had his patents stoled by Dr. Braun.

[ickysdad]

@nethead4223 I'm not dishing Zuse's contribution to computers only that he didn't build the first electronic, turing compliant general purpose computer. He accomplished gret things and he pushed binary function BUT binary function doesn't work that well with an electro-mechanical then per a pure electronic machine. IMHO computers were like the A-Bomb so vast a project that no one person or maybe you can even say one nation can take all the credit.

[ickysdad]

@nethead4223 Well let me see I've tried being nice but first you say ENIAC was an electro-mechanical device now that evidently it,ENIAC, wasn't but was an actual electronic being electro-mechanical isn't that big of a deal. what has made modern computers is being electronic not electro-mechanical andbeing binary which I must agree Zuse pushed BUT which electro-mechanical doesn't work that well with,i.e. being binary further being turing compliant which the Z3 wasn't without much hacking.