Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe

• Origin and combat history of Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262This superb monograph devoted to the the Messerschmitt Me 262 discusses its origins and development with detailed coverage of changes made in all its variants and sub-variants, including the special modifications for the foreign recipients. The Messerschmitt Me 262 was the world’s first jet-powered fighter aircraft and proved to be an impossibly fast adversary in the skies of Germany. Its late introduction to the battlefield during WWII means that this spectacular jet never realized its full potential. This volume includes many rare color profile artworks, detailing the impressive fighter. About MonographsMonographs focuses on an individual type of aircraft. Each monograph contains descriptions of the aircraft’s origin, its variants and combat history. Each volume includes several hundred archive photographs, technical scale drawings and color profile artwork.