Messerschmitt Me262 T-1
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Ingo Fuchs AuthorThank you for the nice comments and the many likes!
Decades ago there was a "fake story" about the Marine Me262 in the magazine "Modell-Fan".
I combined this idea with the discussion about a possible "blue variant of RLM83" and thought about what would have made technical sense to turn the "swallow" into a "tern"...
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Although the construction of the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin had been cancelled only a few years earlier, the idea of having an "independent air force" did not leave the naval command alone.
After Hitler had declared the capital ships to be superfluous, the navy wanted to protect its personnel from infantry duty and again brought up the idea of converting the heavy units lying idle in the harbor (at least in part) into aircraft carriers!
The testing of launch catapults had meanwhile made great progress, and the further development of existing types into models suitable for carrier use had also progressed a long way, as the wealth of experience of both the allied Japanese and (through espionage) the US Navy could be used.
A small group of engineers from the Messerschmitt works, who together with naval officers were already looking to the future, took on the Me262 in order to derive an adequate sea fighter from it.
It is unclear whether catapult launches actually took place, as is the exact date of the first flight, which was planned for the beginning of March but probably took place four weeks later...
(Source Wickeledia)
Such a highly interesting and rarely seen model must of course be in my collection!
