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Pete Stickney wrote in another thread:


These allied engines were so succesfull and powerfull that non of them
could be installed on an aircraft. irony off


What propelled the Meteor then ?

Rubber bands ?

The Welland of the Meteor I could, admitedly, outperform a rubber band

The Meteor III improved the situation but was still no faster than a
top line piston fighter at altitude. (TA 152H, P51H, Spitefull, Do
335, P47M)


Meteor III was considered superior to the Tempest V in all depts
except for roll rate, the Meteor III's with long nacelles were faster
than the Me-262 and the Meteor IV's were capable of 580 mph

Keith


The Meteor was a well designed aircaft but it did require a lot more
thrust and development to actualy perform as a 'fast Jet' and clearly
the concept lived on in the Canberra bomber with its high speed and
high altitude but it was intrinsically a transonic aircraft.

Its also inplausible to assume that Messerschmitt would have been
siting on its hands with Me 262A1a fitted with 880kg thrust Jumo 004B1
while the British developed Meteor I, Meteor III, Meteor III long
nacelle etc.

The Jumo 004C increased thrust to 1000kg pushing the Me 262 top speed
to 578mph (its record level flight speed), while the Jumo 004D pushed
the thrust to 1050kg.

At that point the much lighter and much much smaller frontal area
BMW003D at 1100kg thrust might have been ready with its much better
fuel consumption and lower drag and latter still the Me 262 with
Heinkel Hirth HeS 011 with 1300 (hopefully raising to 1700kg)
turbojets installed in the armpit position. (the BMW003D was needed
for long range reconaisence versions of the Arado 234)