Marvelous. Our local Me262 just emerged from an upkeep that had it in thew shop for several months. They were prepping it to visit Air Ventures. It is also a reproduction built off the original plans and powered with Lear Jet engines. Due to metallurgy problems, the original engines only lasted ten hours of flying! They could be rebuilt, but each rebuild yielded a shorter lifespan than the last and they were toast and discarded after thirty hours due to expected compressor fan failure.

You can get an intimate recollection from the book, A Higher Call. My grandfather-in-law, who drove a Stutz Bearcat back in the day, used to talk of "driving out ahead of your headlights.," ie., driving so fast that you couldn't see well enough to react in the pre-sealed-beam headlight days. The Germans were doing this with technology in several of their aircraft designs including the Me262.

Bob