Messerschmitt Me 262B
Luftwaffe 10./NJG 11, "Red 10", Kurt Welter
Achmer, Germany, April 1945
(Corgi AA35709)
- Engine: Two 1,980 lb.s.t. Junkers Jumo 0048 turbojets
- Span: 40 ft 11 in
- Length: 34 ft 9 in
- Height: 12 ft 7 in
- Weight: 9,741 lb empty; 14,101 lb loaded
- Crew: Two
- Max Speed: 540 mph at 19,684 ft
- Service Ceiling: 37,565 ft
- Max Range: 652 miles
- Armament: Four 30 mm Mk 108 cannon
- Notes: Fighter ace Oberleutnant Kurt Welter claimed 25 Mosquitos and two four-engine bombers shot down by night and two further Mosquitos by day. Most of Welter's claimed night kills were achieved by eye, even though Welter had tested a prototype Me 262 fitted with FuG 218 Neptun radar.
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