Messerschmitt Me 262A
at the National Museum of the United States Air Force Dayton Ohio,
Considerably faster than piston-driven aircraft
GERMAN MESSERSCHMITT Me 262
The design was never deployed in numbers sufficient to stop the Allied air campaign, and a combination of fuel shortages, pilot losses, and technical difficulties with the engines kept the number of sorties low. Nevertheless, the Me 262 indicated the obsolescence of piston-driven aircraft
