[427TJ]

I was up at the Boeing plant at Everett (WA) several months ago and while we were waiting to get on the Boeing factory tour bus one of the new Me-262s (the two-seater) came blazing down the runway at about 100 feet and 200-250 knots and pulled up into a graceful left-hand traffic pattern and landed. What a sight! My buddy and I just stood there in disbelief at seeing a WWII German jet in flight. It would have been perfect if a P-51 had dove on the 262 and made a firing pass the way they did in WWII! (Allied fighters would orbit near the German jet airfields and then pick them off when they tried to take off or land. The jets were at their most vulnerable at slow speeds and most of them were shot down that way.)