What was the first country to use jet aircraft in world war two?

Question

What was the first country to use jet aircraft in world war two?

Answer 1

Germany yes, but oddly the first working jet engine was first patented by a Brit,  Sir Frank Whittle.

Hans von Ohain was working on a jet engine in the 1930s, patented his later, but his went into war production. Lousy range and bad fuel consumption, but Allied pilots feared them for good reason...

http://inventors.about.com/library/inven...

is a quick, easy history.

Answer 2

The first manufactured turbone jetplane was the Heinkel He 178 (Germany), piloted by Erich Warsitz on August 27, 1939.

Answer 3

Cant really say that the He-178 was manufactured. It was just a prototype. And it was never used in any actual combat missions.

Anyways, the Germans have the world's first operational fighter and bomber aircrafts, Me-262 and the Ar-234 respectively.

Answer 4

Germany and they actually had the plane in the skies before the beginning of the war.

Heinkel He 178

Answer 5

They were also the first to break the sound barrier, but it was in a wind tunnel.

Answer 6

Hello,,them there Germans,,that's where the greatest scientific minds were.(still are ) Until we made them POW's and force them into democracy.

Answer 7

Germany.

Answer 8

I believe it was the Germans.

Answer 9

Germans had the first one late in the war

Answer 10

Actually the first jet fighter to see production was the He 280, a twin jet pre-production design.  3-4 were built in 1942.  In a decision typical of the entire n**i government, the Luftwaffe opted not to go ahead with production, as Goering didn't see the need.

The first operational jet was actually the Gloster Meteor reserved by Air Defence Great Britain for V1 interception.

The first jet used in air combat was the Me262.  An aircraft so ahead of its time, that it was superior to the F80 and F84 used in Korea.  The 262 was also used in combat-evaluations as a night-fighter variant, claiming 1x Mosquito.

Heinkel had one last shot at a jet fighter with the He162.  This aircraft went operational with JG1 in January 1945.  A couple RAF Typhoons claimed kills, but since no records of JG1 from this time have yet been found, there's no real evaluation of its combat effectiveness. Postwar evaluations were very favorable: in the right hands it would've been a great complement to the -262.

So the Germans actually fielded TWO jet fighters, not just one as is commonly assumed.  This with n**i ineptitude and the disruption caused by Allied bombing.

Answer 11

Germany my man.  Ever heard of the Me-262?  Not the first jet aircraft, but the most famous WWII jet fighter.

Answer 12

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (German for Swallow) was the world's first operational turbojet fighter aircraft.

Answer 13

Them there Germans I reckon.