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You will be hard pressed to see any aspects of the Me 262 designs being used in post war FIGHTERS.
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Hard pressed? Not at all.
Jet engines and (further developed) swept wings?
So out of 3 design points most still have two up to this day in one form or another. Not bad, no?
Some in wing engines are outright sexy:
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/colle...95-42883-4.jpg
But overall I would say 'and so what?'
You see hardly any twin boom designs in post war fighters. Does that make the P-38 less significant?
Why is all of the sudden just one design point (engine pods) part important?
Isn't it the overall design product we are looking at?
The DH Comet was the first passenger jet airliner. It had the engines in the wing root, which no (? maybe there's an odd one?) passenger planes of today have, but does that make the fact any lesser?
Nope, the introduction of the passenger jet, as happened with the Comet, changed air travel to the day.
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Which is preliminary with a CAPITAL P and a far Far FAR cry from prototype..
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That looks like going into the direction of a prototype:
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/His...1101/P1100.jpg
Certainly wasn't intended to be a toy, no?
That looks a bit odd but sure enough like a real plane:
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/His...87/Ju287V1.jpg
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They say the Germans knew about it during the 30s..
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Well, there apart from the AVA wind tunnel research from 39 and onward there was Busemanns paper published in 35 (obviously worked on before publishing in 35).
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Only some like me see it as a logical evolution and not a revolution.
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An evolution that created a revolution? As it always goes? Such things usually don't happen overnight.
Those 'revolutions' are milestones along the evolution. The 262 was sure one of them.
Is a B2 a revolution? I would say yes, first flying wing stealth bomber, that sure is a mile stone. But for sure it is an evolution as well.
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