Many consider the Messerschmitt Me 262 to be the world’s first jet fighter. Two years before the Me 262 took to the air there was another jet fighter that was in fact the first – it was the Heinkel He 280. ‘Who Killed the First Jet Fighter’ is a two part series now showing at Aerocinema.com. […]
Credit for the first Me 262 be brought down in combat belong to Maj Joseph Myers and 2Lt Manford Crory of the P-47D-equipped 78th Fighter Group, who manoeuvred a 1./KG 51 machine into the ground west of Brussels on August 28, 1944. This occurred with a shot being fired by both sides. A similar thing occurred […]
