The first operational jet fighter was called the Messerschmitt Me-262.
Messerschmitt 262
The first operational jet made, assembled and to take flight was the Messerschmitt Me 262
The first operational jet fighter was called the Messerschmitt Me-262.
The Germans invented the first operational jet engine during WW2.
1939
The first jet airplane was designed in Germany in the early 1940's.
Gloucester is where the first jet engine was developed .
A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention; however, this was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittle's engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain who was the designer of the first operational jet engine.
Jets were first developed in the mid 1930's. The first German and British jets flew in 1940.
The first jet airplane was designed in Germany in the early 1940's.
Most Nazi scientific efforts were guided by military considerations, they were especially fruitful in the areas of rocket propulsion, jet propulsion, and missile guidance. To name a few:V-1: The first operational, powered, UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle), first pulse-jet-propelled air craft, first cruise missile.V-2: The first operational, short range, ballistic missile. It achieved sub-orbital space flight at an altitude of approximately 80 km.Rheinbote: The second operational, short range, ballistic missile, designed to replace or augment large bore artillery pieces.Ruhrstahl X-4: The first wire-guided ATA (Air-To-Air) missile, developed & tested, but never deployed.ME163: The first operational, manned, rocket-propelled air craft.ME262: The first operational, manned, jet-propelled air craft.Der Wasserfall (The Waterfall): The first developed, but never deployed, rocket-propelled STA (Surface To Air), guided missile. Today it would be called a SAM.Henschel Hs 293: The first operational, Anti ship, Rocket-propelled, guided missile (It began as Fritz X, a stand-off, radio-controlled, gliding bomb (also, a first); then the engine was added to allow low altitude delivery and to increase range and stand-off distance.)Henschel Hs 293D: As above, but television guided (never deployed).