Fw better then Me-262?

[delcyros]

I've read somewhere for the -262 it was 6 minutes - I've been trying to find that reference...

Just for a comparison - the L-29 that I fly -100% for 6 minutes. 96% for 30 minutes and 94% normal operations. On Initial take off and climb I leave 100%, throttle back to 96% and when I leave the pattern I keep the throttle at 94% unless I want to climb, I go to 96% while watching the Turbine Inlet Temp.

Hi Flyboy,

the -004B was already a downgraded performance engine. The layout of the engine was 1000 Kp thurst for the Jumo-004A (test benched in 1941 at this power output), altough the high rpm prooved to be problematic esspeccially with lower grade metals such as used in the -004B serial turbine. That´s why the max. thrust could be sustained for a longer period: The 890 Kp of the Jumo-004B3 f.e. were actually be not 100% but instead only 89%.

best regards,

[FLYBOYJ]

Interesting Del, thanks!

[Njaco]

speed would be just one variable for the Me 262 at the time introduced. Stopping the bombers and not dogfighting the escorts I believe was the objective. In addition to the engine problems was they whole new style of fighting ... as posted by Cive ...*it's a completely new way of flying*. switching from a prop style to jet combat after years on one would be hard to do, especially if there was no precident. I believe it was Heinz Bar who upon first meeting with B-17s had to try three times before getting hits, and this was on a Fw!

The Me 262 had its problems with engines and relaiblity but pilot inexpierence, even those Experten with hours logged and years fighting, would need to change old habits. Where was Molders when you need him!

Still doesn't answer which was better Fw or Me.

[lesofprimus]

Still doesn't answer which was better Fw or Me.

Depends on the criteria that u base ur opinion on... Each opinion will differ, but the general concensus is that the Fw 190 was a better all around fighter...

Then u have the 262 freaks....

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Ah he is gone now anyhow. He posted some Bf-109 performance charts in the Bf-109 thread and said theys how something and me, Denniss, and Civetone called him on it and told him what it really means. He than said "Good job you passed the test, Have fun this is my last post here".

Basically he got called on everything he posted, proven he is just a 15 year old kid who does not know what he is talking about and left to find another forum to throw his weight around on newbies that dont know anything.

[Erich]

well I guess this silly thread can get locked then. he never answered my question which I posed two times as he does not know. so much for 35 years experience studying ..............yeah what ? never told us who his father was in the war and flying twin engine what unit ?

Adler you're so right, another wanna-be kid. what a wienerschnitzel.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Naw lets leave it open for a bit....

You never know he might come back and we will have some entertainment again.

[Njaco]

Then u have the 262 freaks....

I guess you caught me. Not so much a freak, just love the plane.

Even though it may be moot, I still like the Me 262 over the 190.

[lesofprimus]

Which one u like is not whats under discussion njaco...

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

That is the thing though. No one at all was saying the Me-262 was a bad aircraft. It was in my opinion the best jet fighter to see service in WW2. It however was not the end all aircraft and super fighter that they wanted it to be.

The engines were crap and would flame out regularly. They only had a life span of 10 to 20 hours and then they had to be overhauled.

It was not the most versatile aircraft as this thread was set up to prove.

Was it a bad aircraft? Absolutely not. It was however not the greatest thing since bread and butter as Wespe thinks it was.

[Njaco]

and I didn't post here to say if was my favorite. I just think that as a "fighter" is wasn't much but given the time to evolve like the Fw it might have been.

I am trying to keep my like/dislike out of it.

I think the Fw had so much more behind whereas the pilots for the 262 were just staring to work on its abilities and didn't have the time. If it had the same tryouts as the Fw I think it would have been a better aircraft.

[Civettone]

The Me 262 wasn't the superweapon some claim it to be but that's not so much because of the Me 262s shortcomings but because there's no such thing as a superweapon.

But when the engines held it was the best fighter in the world: it had the best speed and armament of all fighters, and still had good flight characteristics. When the Fw 190 surprised the Brits in 1941, it wasn't ready yet. Yet, even the British called it the best fighter in the world.

Kris

[davparlr]

I think this is pretty straight forward. The Fw-190 was a mature effective aircraft with a demonstrated lethality and reliability. The Me-262 was, as all the jets were at this, not ready for combat in 1945. It probably needed a good one year of intense development to overcome its flaws, specifically its engines. Good reliability is force multiplier, more planes up more of the time. Poor reliability is a force divider. You would have to choose the Fw-190.

But, once mature, the Me-262 would have obsoleted the Fw-190 as a fighter just as the F-86 obsoleted the F-80 and F-51 as fighters. It would have provided air superiority while the Fw-190 was used in the tacitical interdiction role.

[Parmigiano]

No doubt that the 262 was underdeveloped (actually the engines, the airframe was already sound) with all the related maintenance and reliability issues but reading all the recent posts it seems to me that the probable dimension of loss/kill ratio is in the range of about 150 losses vs 350-400 kills.

If so, no matter the lack of development the 262 was better than anything else in the air, at least in his intended role of bomber killer.
There is no other plane that, in the strategic an tactical situation of the last 6 months of war could have dreamed to achieve a 2-3:1 kill ratio.
And if we consider that a good half of the 262 losses happened during take off or landing and that often the 262 was in trouble because had to start the mission with just half of the fuel (fuel shortage cannot be blamed to the aircraft) the results are even more incredible.

I never believed that the 262 was the 'perfect' plane, and I don't believe it now: I think it would not had been as versatile as the 190 or the 88 (to limit the comparison to German planes) and that his development potential was limited.
But acknowledging that kill ratio I have to say 'chapeau and applause' : 2.5:1 with no fuel, airspace completely controlled by the enemy and a numerical proportion of at least 20:1 is just extraordinary.

[davparlr]

Originally Posted by Parmigiano

If so, no matter the lack of development the 262 was better than anything else in the air, at least in his intended role of bomber killer.

True but quantity was a problem exasperted by poor reliability

There is no other plane that, in the strategic an tactical situation of the last 6 months of war could have dreamed to achieve a 2-3:1 kill ratio.

I suspect this is mostly bombers and not fighters, unless they were jumped.

The P-51 achieved a 2:1 kill ration over the war period. It was probably better during the latter days.

But acknowledging that kill ratio I have to say 'chapeau and applause' : 2.5:1 with no fuel, airspace completely controlled by the enemy and a numerical proportion of at least 20:1 is just extraordinary.

Certainly a important plane. I picked it as my bomber/interdiction interceptor in my imaginary air force, but I would not pick it as a baseline figther. Not reliable enough and had weaknesses.