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Messerschmitt Me 262

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  • Top view of a green and gray camouflage fighter military monoplane with two engines. Monoplane is on display in the Museum.
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    The Messerschmitt Me 262 surpassed the performance of every other World War II fighter. Faster than the North American P-51 Mustang by 190 kilometers (120 miles) per hour, the Schwalbe restored to the faltering German Luftwaffe a short-lived qualitative superiority that it had enjoyed earlier in the war.

  • Top view of a green and gray camouflage fighter military monoplane with two engines. Monoplane is on display in the Museum.

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March 09, 2015

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