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		The Messerschmitt (additional info and facts about Messerschmitt) Me 262 Schwalbe (Swallow) was the first operational jet powered (additional info and facts about jet powered) aircraft (A vehicle that can fly).
		During development, when an increase of the weight of the still unfinished jet engines was anticipated in March 1940, Messerschmitt used this as an opportunity to turn the Me 262 into a swept-wing (additional info and facts about swept-wing) fighter by sweeping back the outer wings.
		After Willy Messerschmitt's death, the former Me 262 pilot Hans Guido Mutke (additional info and facts about Hans Guido Mutke) claimed to be the first person to break the sound barrier (The increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound) on April 9 1945 in a Me 262.
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	Encyclopedia: Messerschmitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Probably Messerschmitt's single most important design was the Messerschmitt Bf 109, designed in 1934 with the collaboraton of and which became the most important fighter in the Luftwaffe as Germany re-armed prior to World War II.
		Messerschmitt saw his company through mergers first with BÃ¶lkow in 1963 and then Hamburger Flugzeugbau in 1969, at which point it became MBB (Messerschmitt-BÃ¶lkow-Blohm) with Messerschmitt as chairman until 1970 when he retired.
		Messerschmitt was appointed an Honorary Professor by the Munich Technical College in 1930, and the Vice-President of the Deutsche Akademie fÃ¼r Luftfahrtforschnung (German Academy of Aeronautical Research).
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	Messerschmitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Late in the war, Messerschmitt also worked on a heavy "Amerikabomber" design, the Me 264, which flew in prototype form but was too late to see combat.
		Messerschmitt Bf 163 STOL reconnaissance aircraft (prototypes only) Built by Weserflug AG.
		Messerschmitt Me 329 heavy fighter project, glider prototype said to have test flown at Rechlin in 1945
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		A single seat fighter with squarish wing tips.
		Willi Messerschmitt designed it to specifications first established in 1934.
		It went through many design changes until the ME 109G supplanted all others in 1943.
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