Originally Posted by LIGHTNING [NL]

The Me-262 was clearly the best plane of world war 2.

Dispite the overwhelming odds (the most flying me-262's on one day is 59, up against 2000 allied bombers and 700 allied fighters) the 400 operational planes managed to take down over 700 allied planes. Pretty funny, considering these planes were made in either factories that had to cope with around the clock bombing, or in open factories in forests, by unskilled workers, without the needed supplies of raw materials. (The entire engine was built out of steel, because the Germans had lost their source of chrome!) Also consider, these pilots had the minimum training and this plane was hard to fly.
Not only the factories were bombed though, the airfields were a favoured target too. Of the 1200 Me-262's produced (very high considering the circumstances) only 400 were ever operational. The rest simply got destroyed before they got the chance to take off. Because of that, late in the war the me-262 pilots had to take off from auto-bahns, using bridges as makeshift hangars!

The Me-262 was equipped with 4 deadly 30mm nosecannons. It's outstanding aerodynamics (best in world war 2) made it one of the fastest planes in the world (100 miles per hour faster than any other allied airplane). The only bad thing about the Me-262 was it's engines. Which is, considering the circumstances, reasonably understandable. The pilots couldn't increase power on the engines too fast, because the engine would burst into flames. Once allied pilots figured this out they went straight in for landing Me-262's, as they were unable to escape.

Originally Posted by Vertical345

And about the engines bursting into flames, yeah i hate when that happens in il2, freakin annoying when you are crusing at 70% power, make contact go to 90% throttle and your engine blows up :(