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Here's a nice challenge.

1,623 LockheedMartinAerospace  7.8 years ago

Build the first ever jet fighter aircraft built in history.

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    30.3k ChiChiWerx

    @DuckMintnewprofile you are correct, neither ever was operational and they weren't intended to be operational. So, the Me 262 was the first operational jet fighter, followed only a few months later by the Gloster Meteor.

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    49.1k Wogchamp

    "In June 1944, the first examples of Hitler's revolutionary jet fighter, the Messerschmitt 262, began to appear over the skies of Germany"-wikipedia

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    49.1k Wogchamp

    @ChiChiWerx but was a jet fighter? I believe those two planes were experimental and never faced conflict, maybe the me262(maybe)

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    30.3k ChiChiWerx

    Geez, does no one here have Google? The first jet flown was the Heinkel He 178 (German) in 1939, followed by the Gloster E.28/39 (UK) in 1941. Both were similar designs, small with nose intakes and conventional wings and empennage. The Heinkel was a taildragger, though, while the Gloster had a tricycle landing gear.

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    I thought the first jet was a gloister meteor @Tully2001

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    @Tully2001 Maybe, maybe not. I didn't say if it reached operational status.

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