Hi-Tech Hitler - Jet Plane

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The German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel becomes the first to develop a jet fighter prototype (He 178), just weeks before the start of WWII. It is soon followed by the He 280, but, ultimately, politics and technical problems doom the company's effort. It is only in late 1944 that the first operational jet fighter - the Messerschmitt Me 262 - is deployed in combat, but it arrives too late to stave off defeat.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8IQSd2B4DA[/youtube]

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The story of the development and use in combat of the first ejection seat by the Luftwaffe during WWII.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLgOuklstfk[/youtube]