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Originally Posted by Spitfire XIV-E
It is popularly believed that the Me 262 was the 1st Jet Fighter but in fact Britain's Gloucester Meteor and America's Bell XP-59 can also lay claim to this. What is beyond doubt though is the 262's performance which was better than anything in the Allied Arsenal and it was to prove a very influential design post war as the Allies picked over the bones of the German Aircraft industry taking much of what the Germans had learned (Including many leading German Scientists) and developing their own High Performance Jet Aircraft.
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The Glaucester Meteor had faulty guns and its top speed was close to that of other allied piston fighters.
