All right it's an Me 262 at RIAT: The Royal
International Air tattoo and we're going to be jumping inside! But first of all let's have a walkaround - up
front on the aircraft we have of course a gun camera in the nose. That is linked to the actual trigger of the
pilot when he unleashes his four MK 108s that are just behind there in the centerline position. Now these guns aren't the best ones for air-to-air
combat in many ways. First of all the rate of fire 650 rounds a
minute, then second thing of course the muzzle velocity of roughly 500 meters a second. This is like shooting a mortar in air-to-air
combat - the shell goes out and it drops down. 360 rounds combined with all four guns and
we have the Minengeschoss, the mine shell. The 30x98mmRB shell that this gun used was
a specially designed high explosive shell and it contains 70 to 85 grams of high explosive
depending on which exact Minengeschoss you would be using and that is packing a wallop. Generally speaking in World War II planes
would be limited to about 20mm cannons which would be fitted with HE-fillers of around
2 to 10 grams, and the Germans pushed it up to 18 grams as well with their 20mm round. So this really causes some absolute damage. We also have the front wheel in the Me 262
that was introduced in the fourth prototype. Initially it was a tail dragger so they fixed
it up as a tricycle landing gear and that would swing inwards just below the guns. Behind the guns you also have a fuel tank,
the main fuel tank 900 liters. The first one of two and an auxiliary fuel
tank 170 liters just below the cockpit. Of course there's oxygen boxes stored as there
as well, next to the fuel tanks for the pilots at high altitude. Inboard leading edge slats here - I'm going
to talk about those in just a second but let's come to the engines. The Junkers Jump 004 engines produce a thrust
of around 2000lbf, this allowed the aircraft to go around about 900 kilometers an hour
in a straight line. The engine that we have right here are not
the Jumo ones, these are General Electric CJ 610 engines but they are built into an
a cell that is reminiscent exactly of how the Me 262 would have looked during the second
world war. Of course this is a flying example here at
RIAT, a really special big thank you here of course to the Messerschmitt Foundation
and also Airbus for making this possible - The original engines would also have a Riddle
starter motor which was a two-stroke engine in the front and that would just allow the
aircraft to make the engines come up to the RPMs it requires for an easy start of the
engines. Now as we come towards the wings, just a quick
note here on of course the engines and the airframe. 400 Me 262 roughly made operational
service during the second world war however we have 1500, roughly 1400 to 1500 completed
airframes and six thousand engines - what happened? Well a lot of the engines weren't really useful
,they were built with bad quality and bad quality control because Germany of course
abused a lot of forced labor during that time - there's other videos that I've already done
to talk more about this. The placement below the wings however very
good for changing your engines very quickly. That could be done in roughly 30 minutes in
operational conditions which for World War II standards is blistering fast. The slats they pop out at low air speeds increase
the wing surface (and improves airflow via the slot) and that provides more docile stalling
characteristics. Coming then to the wingtip , we have navigational
lighting and then we have the aileron - it is an active air show by the way if you're
wondering why there's noise yes that is a Gripen flying. Here are the flaps, and the engine exhaust. A second main fuel tank here, 900 liters and
auxiliary additional fuel tank could be mounted as well with 600 liters. We have a Mutterkompass and we have the radio
set in here as well. Initially what you're seeing right here are
of course modern radio antennas. What you would have here in the second world
war is the RDF antenna, it's a loop antenna for radio directional finding. Coming then to their tail very conventional
tail setup however note of course the rudder and the elevator trim tabs. Then we come around but flare dispensers here,
those are signaling flares by the way: so green red or yellow-white and that would be
used for air-to-air and air-to-ground communication without using the radio. The pilot of course would mount on this side
(via the wing) you see the Einstiegsklappen, the little hand and footholds for him to get
inside. The canopy would swing outwards. The fuselage is semi-monocoque that means
there are longerons running alongside the fuselage, you have frames and then stringers
between those and stress skinned just above that. Coming then to the other side of the wing
let's talk about the Weaponry. Pitot tube, but let's then talk about the
Weaponry. We would have wooden mock-ups right here for
R4M rockets, those are 55mm rockets used for air-to-air engagements, they are dump fire
so you don't definitely do not have any guidance. They were meant to be fired off en-masse against
Allied bombers and of course if we come to the fuselage, there was also the centerline
position which would generally be able to support a 250-500 kilogram bombs. Those could of course be fitted in a JABO
configuration, the fighter-bomber configuration. Now remember of course that the order for
all fighters that Germany puts into production going forward was in early 1943, that bombs
had to be carried. The Messerschmitt company itself knew that
any fighter that was going to come forward into operational service had to carry bombs. Provisions were made by the company fairly
early on to make that happen and of course, yes the decision to use these aircraft as
fighter-bombers was a decision that delayed their introduction as a fighter aircraft but
it did not delay the process all that much as it sometimes said. With that said, done let's jump inside [Music] Although this is a flying example which requires
some concessions to the equipment and cockpit instruments for modern flying regulations,
the me262's cockpit we have here is remarkably similar to the original layout we saw in a
previous me262 inside the cockpit episode. The jets cockpit features a fantastically
clean setup. Let's get into it! Big thank you here at this point to all Patreons
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you're at it. Inside the cockpit we will start as always
on the left with me taking you around the instruments in a clockwise direction. On the far left we have the your yaw trim. I believe these are the fuel clock or fuel
pump switches and then we have the throttles the push buttons on the throttles. This would originally be used for the engine
starter unit. The inner red handle was originally for the
valve manifold of the engines, the larger handle with the red grip was for the pitch
trim moving forward push buttons for the flaps and gear a flap deflection indicator and a
gear position indicator round off this area to the front left now this panel has changed
substantially from the original layout now what we have here is an emergency hydraulic
reservoir release switch and a compass moving on to the front instrument board we can see
that the gunsight has been removed and instead we have a g-accelerometer, a modern communication
instrument, and a clock. Below this your basic six in the original
position although some of these dials are more modern. Than the World War II spec ones you can see
your altimeter, a gyro Artificial Horizon and a speedometer in knots in the top row. Below this from the left a vertical speed
indicator a heading compass and a turn and slip indicator. And then to the bottom left a temperature
gauge and where the weapons console would have been originally a modern radio set moving
them towards the right the engine control dials in the original layout up top we have
the engine RPMs and below this the individual oil pressure and engine temperature gauges
and then in the third row we have oil temperature gauges in the middle as well as an ammeter
to the left and a fuel consumption indicator to the right fuel flow and individual fuel
tank indicators are in the bottom row. Moving to the right we have a red handle,
that is your canopy emergency jettison and we have a large circuit breaker panel behind
this further to the right the engine and starter switches, the emergency gear release and the
connection and electric plugs for ANR headsets and USB finally. Coming to the flight stick the original safety
and trigger switch has changed somewhat because well they're not really used here the weapon
clocking switch is also missing instead we have a new addition which is a trim switch
I'm not sure what it is linked to but it could be the aileron trim I also assume that the
small switch next to it is your radio push to transmit. This rounds us off inside the cockpit and
if you thought I was remarkably fast yes it was the Me 262's cockpit is quite a clean
setup and this modern iteration is even more simpler than the World War II spec one. Again a big thank you to all Channel supporters
for making this content possible and all you viewers for your interest in this series,
we wouldn't be filming this Me 262 without you. Big thank you to the Me 262 pilot Geri for
his gracious welcome and for agreeing to an interview which I will post in the future. Geri will talk a lot about his experiences
and flying the Me 262 so have a look out for that. As always Channel supporters will have Early
Access. An additional thank you goes to the Messerschmitt
Foundation and Airbus Defense and Space for liaising with us for the filming. As always all you Legends have a great day
and see you in the sky To show you how to get off the me262 in the
official way , the famous slide
