Popular Culture
- Clive Cussler's famous fictional character Dirk Pitt owns an Me 262, which he acquired when he helped excavate a hidden airfield that held a number of the aircraft.
- In the PC flight simulator Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, a virtual Chuck Yeager, voiced by himself, accurately states Allied pilots used the term blow job as a nickname for the Me 262s.
- The Blue Öyster Cult 1974 album Secret Treaties includes a song entitled ME 262; the cover art of the album is a drawing depicting the band posing on an Me 262 whose tail bears the band's hook-and-cross logo.
- In the 2012 film Red Tails, members of the 332nd Fighter Group (also commonly known as The Tuskegee Airmen) flying P-51 Mustangs take on Me 262s (albeit CGI versions) as part of the film's climax.
- In Robert Conroy's Red Inferno: 1945, remaining Me 262s are "donated" to Allied Forces for usage against Soviet Aircraft, and are successful in helping stop a massive Soviet Air Assault on Allied positions
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