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Me 262 Pilot Talks About Flying the German Fighter Jet
🕑 Added 2023-11-13 17:06:35 +0000 UTCI was lucky to run into Geri "K12" Krähenbühl at RIAT23. He flies the Me 262 for Airbus Heritage/ Messerschmitt Foundation and was happy to be interviewed about his experience flying this aircraft at air shows. Big thank you to the community supporters for their support - and Geri, Airbus and the Messerschmitt Foundation for facilitating this interview.
A big thank you goes to you - as a channel supporter you enable me to make this content as it is 100% community funded!
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A peak behind the curtain: At RIAT we had to do things on the fly (pun as always intended) and thanks to everyone helping out - it went smoothly in the end. It was touch and go at some points but we all pulled through in good spirits and managed to get all this content recorded for you. The storm on Friday had compressed everyone's 3 day schedule into 2 days which really is 1.5 days. You can imagine what that means: Josh (our camera virtuoso) and me PLUS old school media outlets PLUS the VIPs - let's not forget about the VIPs - being rescheduled, overlapping, clashing, calling and texting frantically and wondering what's up.
In the end I had about 60 minutes to get the Inside the Cockpit episode of the Me 262 filmed (that video you have seen already) plus the interview. Now for Josh and me, that is plenty of time under normal conditions. We are used to him just switching on the camera and me...well, talking I guess. However, in those 60 minutes we had to negotiate, discuss and at times wrestle (in a friendly way) with other 'media' outlets over access and make sure that we are in no ones way and that no one is in our way. It's all done in good sport - no drama - but you need to be on the ball and cooperate, firmly but nicely. Big thank you here to those that facilitated the coordination on the ground - you know who you are and you made it happen. I am really happy we got it done properly, despite the conditions of wind, rain and last minute rushes.
Comments
Timothy Mulligan
Outstanding! Thanks for the concise insider perspective!
Frank C
Thinking back into when these were combat aircraft, figure every 262 pilot would have complained about the need for larger rear control surfaces for a more stable weapons platform and overall quality of life to operate. In other news, this video is something I never would have thought of when I was getting interested in combat aircraft in the 1970's.
Jens Backman
Brilliant!
