Comments by "Barrie Rodliffe" (@barrierodliffe4155) on "The only Allied jet fighter of WW2 | Gloster Meteor" video.

  1.  @joeharris3878  It never intercepted any and after a fatal crash they were grounded.
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  2.  @WilhelmKarsten  The P 80 had a higher accident rate and so did the F 104, the Me 262 was described by an RAF Spitfire pilotas not being much of a threat, they certainly never shot down a single Spitfire.
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  3.  @WilhelmKarsten  Not as a fighter? how do you explain Korea and 6 Migs, or Israel against Egypt, jet fighter against jet fighter.
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  4.  @WilhelmKarsten  Dream on dr Bummer, you do not have a clue.
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  5.  @WilhelmKarsten  The failure Me 262 started out with a piston engine and had to be much modified to ebem become a poor fighter, it couldn't take on Spitfires. Noch Fragen, Junior
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  6.  @WilhelmKarsten  The Metoer had the very good reliable jet engines while the Me 262 had German failures which led no where. All mogern jet engines come from British designs and none from German failures.
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  7.  @WilhelmKarsten  Germany and Japan lost, without Britain they may even have won.
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  8.  @WilhelmKarsten  Not nearly as funny as dr Bummer and his many false comments.
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  9.  @WilhelmKarsten  Es gab geschwungene Flügel, bevor irgendjemand in Deutschland auf die Idee kam.
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  10.  @wanderschlosser1857  The fact that the Spitfire wing by design had a high speed capability, even in a dive early Spitfires were very fast, other fighters of the time couldn't reach the same speeds and remain under control. Maybe the fact that the Spitfire had a safe mach limit of mach 0.86 at which speed the Me 262 would break up,
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  11.  @jaws666  The Me 262 wing had to be changed because of the balance, it was not better, the slight sweep had no aerodynamic benefit.
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  12.  @WilhelmKarsten  The obsolete centrifugal jet engine was the best way to go, axial flow took longer to get working well, the Germans never managed to, the French took a German design and had to make so many changes that they could have started from scratch and done a better job, all new engines owe their existance to the British. the best jet engines until the 1950's were British centrifugal jet engines, the Gnome, Derwent, Nene and Tay, the best axial flow engines in the 1950's were British, the RR Avon, and Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire.
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  13.  @WilhelmKarsten  Können Sie es beweisen oder ist das, wie alle Ihre anderen Behauptungen, nur eine weitere Lüge?
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  14.  @WilhelmKarsten  THe Me 262 engines barely lasted longer, in fact they had to vhane the engine so often that most or the Me 262;s never left the ground and many of the few Luftwaffe pilots who flew them wished they hadn't.
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  15. Maybe there were not enough Me 262's left or the Luftwaffe pilots were too frightened to come and play.
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  16.  @mothmagic1  That was at low sea level which was faster than even the Tempest and it did 440 mph at 20,000 feet, that was the FI or pre production version, soom replaced by the much faster F III.
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  17.  @WilhelmKarsten  We had already got rid of surplus German pilots so at least we had some to spare. We developed the ejection seat which has saved many lives over the years, I recall a German attempt, the pilot ejected ok but was found dead in the seat because he lost both arms and couldn't do anything but make a heavy landing in his seat.
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  18.  @donaldhysa4836  In service and only not fighting because the Luftwaffe never came up to play, I suppose the Me 262 had enough trying to fight Spitfires and losing.
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  19. Didn't the first flight of the Me 262 with jet engines get cut short because they both failed?
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  20.  @Coyote27981  What post war Me 262? Czechoslovakia tried but gave up, no one else got far with the German jet engine designes before giving up.
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  21. About 6 Mig 15's were shot down but the Meteor had success well before then.
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  22. No real point The RAF had Spitfires and Tempests which were more than a match for any fighter including the Me 262 and Meteors were sent over Germany and not a single Luftwaffe fighter came up to fight.
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  23. The Me 262 was not a good fighter, it couldn't take on a Spitfire.
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  24.  @johnnunn8688  The Me 262 started out with straught wings and a piston engine since the jet engines were not ready, it then had two added jet engines which both failed and by luck still had the piston engine , they changed to different jet engines but these were longer and heavier and shifted the centre of balance back, so rather than a complete redesign they slightly swept the wings back, the funny thing is that it was not enough for any aerodynamic benefit.
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  25.  @treystephens6166  First flight 1943.
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  26.  @treystephens6166  The engine was called Goblin and the next DH jet engine was called Ghost
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  27.  @WilhelmKarsten  Is that why Germany was trying to reach 600 mph which they failed to do and Britain was looking at 1,000 mph, and USA had to take our technology to break the sound barrier?
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  28.  @WilhelmKarsten  dr Bummer, you are the liar, the straight wing Me 262 never had the highest mach number and even after the wings were slightly swept back it would according to Willy Messerschmitt break up if it exceeded mach 0.86, this was confirmed by the RAE who gave it a limit of mach 0.84, the allies certainly had nothing as expensive and incapable as the Me 262.
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  29.  @WilhelmKarsten  The Me 262 never shot down 550, maybe 150 and mostly bombers, a few P 51's but they couldn't touch the Spitfire or Tempest. TheLuftwaffe claims were very exaggerated.
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  30.  @WilhelmKarsten  Kurt WElter was a liar, his claims have been shown to be very false, maybe he shot down 3 or 4 aircraft if that while flying Me 262's.
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  31.  @WilhelmKarsten  The Wright Flyer was not exactly significant, nor was the Me 262, the allies had much better like the Spitfire.
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  32.  @WilhelmKarsten  Die Me 262 startete mit einem Kolbenmotor und geraden Flügeln, sie musste stark modifiziert werden, um zu einem strahlarmen Jäger zu werden, die Meteor war von Anfang an für Strahltriebwerke konzipiert.
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  33. Was it? the Meteor had some success including against Mig 15's in Korea and against Vampires when Israel had the Meteor and Egypt the Vampire.
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  34. ​ @WilhelmKarsten  Besser als die Modelle Me 163 und Me 262, die gescheitert sind.
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  35.  @WilhelmKarsten  German propaganda which is why it has never been recognised as a record, also it was not recorded on accuarate measuring equipment. the Me 262 had a best top speed of 540 mph and they were meant to bot be accepred unles they did 515 mph, many only just made that.
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  36.  @michaelpielorz9283  Eric Brown was a great test pilot but not infallible, he didn't mention that the Me 262 was an inferior fighter to the Spitfire, Tempest or Meteor.
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  37. The one named after an agile bird wasn't agile, it often did crash to earth.
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  38. Two protoype P 80's in Italy and they were soon grounded afrer a fatal crash so not really operational.
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  39. Some Mig 15 pilots would not agree with you dr Bummer.
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  40. It was faster than most at the time especially at low altitude where it was faster than a Tempest, Spitfire or P 51.
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  41.  @WilhelmKarsten  The fake German dr Bummer is still telling lies, Germany had a good way to get rid of pilots, try to fight the RAF. Gunther Rall sagte in der Luftschlacht um England: „Wir im JG 52 haben den Kampf mit 36 ​​erfahrenen Piloten begonnen und jetzt sind wir innerhalb weniger Wochen auf nur noch 4 gesunken.“
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  42.  @WilhelmKarsten  Just one? are you sure ? The Hawk, 100 % British and apart from the RAF and a couple of other countries USA and India bought them. The Airbus is the success it is thanks to Britain, the F 35 was a flop until Britain got involved. Sie sind ein kompletter Idiot, der keine Ahnung von Flugzeugen hat.
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  43.  @donaldhysa4836  Dream on little boi the Yanks didn't come to save us, they were two years too late, we had already saved ourselves.
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  44.  @michaelpielorz9283  Hat sich Ihre Mutter bei Ihrer Geburt gewünscht, ein Kind mit einem halben Gehirn zu haben?
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  45.  @anthonycruciani939  The Me 262 stood little chance against a Spitfire or Tempest and when a Tempest was tested against the Meteor the Meteor was superior, the Meteor did have some sucess against jet fighters after the war, even in Korea it shot down a few Mig 15's, late in the war Meteors were flying missions over Germany and no German fightesr came up to face them.
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  46.  @Holland41  THe RAF didn't beed escort fighters much but when they did it was the Spitfire.
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  47.  @michaelpielorz9283  Me 262's often fell out of the sky especially when they encountered the RAF.
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  48.  @WilhelmKarsten  The following completely false myth comes from a single dubious source and contradicts all of the historical evidence. The Me-262 was wind tunnel tested to speeds of up to 1.4 Mach at the Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt laboratory. You got that right, you are a very dubious source of false information. The Me 262 couldn't exceed mach 0.86 without breaking up, that comes from a very reliablr source, none other than Willy Messerschmitt and it is backed up by the RAE.
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  49.  @allangibson8494  Actually it would disintegrat above mach 0.86 I am not sure about the Airbus, the Boeing 707 certainly would go out of control but a DC * did exceed mach I, wing sweep has little to do with the ability to go supersonic, it has been said that the Spitfire wing would be capable or mach 1.3.
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  50.  @brettbuck7362  The all moving tail on the Bell X 1 came from the Miles M 52 and had been tested at high speed on a Spitfire in 1944, Bell was given that in 1947 or they wouldn't have managed mach 1.
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  51.  @user-ex4si2md6r  THe Me 262 wasn't a good design, it was a bad design much modified from the prototype and a poor fighter.
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  52. Not even in 1945 when Meteors were flying over Germany?
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  53. The prototype P 80 did just fly in Italy but they were grounded due to a fatal crash.
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  54. Two prototypes flew in Italy but were soon grounded due to a fatal crash.
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  55.  @WilhelmKarsten  Junior, you really do not have a clue, the Me 262 was a poor fighter, it never shot down a single Spitfire, it couldn't accelerate, climb or manoever like a Spitfire, it couldn't go as high or dive as fast, no wonder whenever they met the Me 262 was either shot down or if the Me 262 pilot was very lucky his engines lasted long enough for him to use his only advantage, top speed.
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  56.  @WilhelmKarsten  Only the dummy doktor bummer, Sandybum and little willie make up such nonsense, the Me 262 first flew with a single piston engine, staright wings and a tail wheel, after being fitted with the BMW jet engines it still had straight wings and a tail wheel, it was very hard to take off and both jet engines failed, the pilot flew back to base using the piston engine, The jet engines were changed to the heavier Jumo engines, the nose wheel was addaed and the tail wheel removed, at the same time the wings were slightly swept to improve the centre of lift but as even German wartime research showed just 18.5 degrees of sweep had no real aerodynamic benefit, you would need at least 30 to 35 degrees. Now on to your uneducated nonsense that the Meteor killed Britidsh pilots during WW II, I would like some proof of that, the Me 262 certainly managed to kill a number of German pilots and was a failure, most of them never got off the ground, of those that did they couldn't take on RAF fighters like the Spitfire or Tempest. Du bist ein Feigling und Idiot
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  57. WEll we gave the Russians the RR Nene but we also gave the US our jet engines including Rols Royce Avon and Armstrong Siddely Sapphire.
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  58.  @WilhelmKarsten  Is that why the Me 262 would bteak up if it exceeded mach 0.86? DrBummer ist ein echter Trottel, er weiß nichts über Flugzeuge und ist nicht einmal Deutscher, nur ein fieser kleiner Profi-Nazu.
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  59.  @givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935  Not only that they fail to notice that Britain while using centrfugal jet engines which e=were the best and mowt powerful at the time were also developing axial flow which is where modern jet engines come from.
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  60.  @WilhelmKarsten  Then had a worse crash record than the Meteor, much like the poor Me 262 which often crashed all by itself. Of course the Me 262 did see a little service during the war but was hopeless against Spitfires and Tempests which were the best fighters around. Du bist ein Feigling und Idiot
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  61. Not even close, drBummer in his wildest claims only says 450 pilots were killed by the Meteor.
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  62. Rhe YP 80 was a prototype, the limited service being almost none before they were grounded due to a fatal crash.
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  63.  @WilhelmKarsten  One crashed and yjet were not operational, Y P 80 being prototypes.
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  64. It was pretty clear that the RAF knew the Me 262 was a poor fighter and no match for a Spitfire or Tempest, the RAF didn't need to rush the Meteor into service, when they did the Liftwaffe stayed away. The Germans were always testing superior something, it didn't help that none of their so called superior weapons got past the experimental stage
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  65. It wasn't the best or the fastest, it might have been faster than the P 80 but not by much.
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  66.  @WilhelmKarsten  The ATAR was French, it was a very different engine to the BMW, a co,plete redesign, Axial flow were inferior during the war, even the Metropolitan Vickers axial flow wasn't a good during the war and it was the Metropolitan Vickers design which led to all modern jet engines. Daimler Benz didn't invent axial flow, in fact all German designs were based on Whittle patents. Du bist wirklich ein Idiot
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  67.  @WilhelmKarsten  How long did it take to get the F 100 into production? it's first flight was ten years after the Meteor and by 1953 950 mph wasn't exactly ground breaking and it had a jet engine based on British designs. Du bist wirklich ein Idiot
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  68.  @WilhelmKarsten  The He 178 never even had the undercarriage retracted on it's very limited test flights.The He 280 was a compleye failure, it's ejector seat was the only thing on it that worked.
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  69.  @mathiasr.sander-nielsen5250  You are mixing us up with dr Bummer, Sander clot and Wilhelm loony, all the same liar.
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  70.  @WilhelmKarsten  The Me 262 didn;t enter operational service until laye 1944, it was in a yest and development squadron in April and the aircraft it didn't shoot down flew back to Italy.
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  71. The Australian pilots had only trained for ground arrack, they did still manage to shoot down a few Migs
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  72.  @WilhelmKarsten  Können Sie es beweisen oder ist das, wie alle Ihre anderen Behauptungen, nur eine weitere Lüge?
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  73. There were bot enough Goblins and the one in the Vampire due for it's firsy flight was yaken out and given to the US who had somehow blown up the engine already given to them. The P 80 didn't have great performance and was too late for WW II.
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  74. The prototype Meteor was slower than the production Me 262, you should look at the prototype Me 262's. the Me 163 had a never exceed speed of 560 mph. Hans von Ohain didn;t invent the jet engine, in fact his copy of the Whittle engine was a failure and dropped in Germany. The He 178 did just fly but the test pilot never retracted the undercarriage so only at very low speed.
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  75.  @robertmiller2173  No wonder you get it all so wrong, faking notice of the pro Nazi Sadbum. The Me 163 did break the sound barrier, at least parts of it and parts of the pilot after it exploded.
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  76. Axial flow was the wrong way to go during the war, Metropolitan Vicjers had a working avial flow engine which was tested on a Meteor but not found to be much better for performance and still needed development but it did go on to the excellent Sapphire which along with the Rplls Royce Avon led to modern jet engines.
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  77. Only in German propaganda, these so called flights were not recognised because they were not carried out with the same means of recording speed.
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  78.  @WilhelmKarsten  Dr Bummer back again with his false comments, you fool no one with your lies.
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  79.  @WilhelmKarsten  AS introduced the Meteor had a similar speed to the Spitfire Mk XIV but was faster than even the Tempest at low level.
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  80.  @WilhelmKarsten  You mean the mid 1940's, world speed record over 600 mph in a Meteor III just after the war.
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  81.  @WilhelmKarsten  The Me 262 was a useless fighter, unable to catch or shoot down any Spitfires. Die Me 262 konnte in Bezug auf Beschleunigung, Steigflug, Dienstgipfelhöhe, Sturzfluggeschwindigkeit und Manövrierfähigkeit nicht an eine Spitfire herankommen.a single Spitfire,
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  82.  @WilhelmKarsten  The Me 262 started out wuth straight winge and a single piston engine, it still had straight wings until after they fitted the Jumo engines.
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  83.  @HAL-vu8ef  Faster and the way forward. At least the Meteor worked, you can't say the same about the Me 262 or Me 163, both were failures for different reasons.
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  84. Action? you mean a couple of flights before being grounded, about as much action as a soldier who works in a canteen.
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  85.  @iansneddon2956  I understand that the design of the Jumo was the problem, the British axial floow design was different and better, Czechoslovakia tried for years to get their copy of the Me 262 to work, barely in service in very small numbers in about 1950 and dropped in 1951.
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  86.  @TinaHollner  I knew an aircraft designer who built a supersonic wind tunnel in England before the war so there was at least one, The first aircraft to have swept wings was British in 1912 and during the war Britain was looking towards aircraft capable of 1,000 mph, Germany was looking at 600 mph.
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  87.  @williamzk9083  Except the Meteor was able to go faster than the Me 262, gaining the world record in 1945 and according to Willy Messerschmitt the Me 262 would break up if it exceeded mach 0.86, the Spitfire could safely exceed that speed.
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  88.  @wbertie2604  Also the first English Electric Lightnings and one of them was the first aircraft in the world to achieve supercruise.
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  89.  @wanderschlosser1857  The Spitfire had a hidger sate mach number than the Me 262. Willy Messefschmitt said the Me 262 would break up if it did over mach 0.86 which the Spitfire could exceed.
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  90.  @prophetsnake  In part, but Whittle was the first to patent a true jet engine and the first to make one that could run under it's own power.
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  91.  @wanderschlosser1857  The Spitfire had the highest dive speed of any aircraft during the war. the Me 163 and Me 262 claims are unofficial because they were not made under accurate verified conditions, so just German propaganda.
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  92.  @WilhelmKarsten  Dr Bummer, you get everything wrong as usual, "Adolf Busemann designed and tested the Me-262 at the RLMs Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt in Brauschweig." Willy Messerschnitt didn't think much of the Me 262 which he said would go out of control if it exceeded mach 0.86. "Germany was the only country to have supersonic aircraft wind tunnels during WW2." I knew the aircraft designer responsible for a supersonic wind tunnel made in England before WW II. "The proof is self evident, the Me-262 swept wings are obviously not an accident or the result of some happy coincidence" German research showed that to have any real effect a wing has to be swept back at leasr 30 degrees. The fact that a Spitfire could safely exceed the best speed of an Me 262 in a dive shows how empty your lies are.
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  93.  @WilhelmKarsten  What country? Sie sind nicht deutscher als Putin oder Trump, nur dümmer.
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  94.  @WilhelmKarsten  The Me 262 with a single engine, straight wins and a tail wheel, the single piston engine because the jets engines were not ready, then they kept the piston engine and put on two jet engines, both jet engines failed, they then changed the jet engines to the Jumo's which adversely affected stability so they slightly swept back the wings to change the balance rather than moving the wings back on the fuselage and went to a tricycle undercarriage because it was very hard to take off.
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  95. What you mean is that the Meteor was faster than a Stuka of the Meteor was in a steep climb and the Stuke in a steep dive.
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