title: Me 262 Project
Fred Parkinson Holliday
The Machine Gunners
E. M. Laird Airplane Company
Weller Flugzeugbau
Germania Flugzeugwerke
Hugo Junkers
Lanitz Aviation
Messerschmitt Me 262
Junkers
sentences: The Me 262 Project is a company formed to build flyable reproductions of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter.
 The project was started with the Texas Airplane Factory and administered by Classic Fighter Industries.
 It is based at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, United States, near Seattle.
 The project team of designers, engineers and technicians completed the flight test program in 2012 and delivery of the first of five jets.
Fred Parkinson Holliday DSO, MC, AFC (20 February 1888 – 5 March 1980) was an Australian fighter pilot and ace of the First World War.
 He shot down 17 German aircraft between his entry into the war and its end, making him the 11th highest-scoring Australian-born pilot of the war.
 He served with the RFC and RAF throughout, in the No. 48 Squadron.
 He was awarded the Military Cross on 26 July 1917 for a particularly successful encounter with five German aircraft, and was later given the Distinguished Service Order.
The Machine Gunners is a children's historical novel by Robert Westall, published by Macmillan in 1975.
 Set in northeastern England shortly after the Battle of Britain (February 1941), it features children who find a crashed German aircraft with a machine gun and ammunition; they build a fortress and capture and imprison a German gunner.
 The author also wrote a play based on the book, and others have adapted it for television and radio.
 A sequel, "Fathom Five", set two years later, was published in 1979.
Emil Matthew Laird partnered with the founders of the Wichita Airplane Company to build a new commercial biplane aircraft in 1920.
 The E.M Laird Company built 45 Swallow aircraft of this design.
 E.M Laird sold all rights on 27 September 1923 to J. M Mollendick, and formed a new company, the E. M. Laird Airplane Company based out of Chicago.
 The original E. M. Laird Company then became the Swallow Airplane Company, retaining brother Charles Laird.
 Charles Laird cocurrently started a short lived aircraft company named Laird Aircraft Corporation, publicly known as Whipporwhill in order to differentiate himself from Emil.
Weller Flugzeugbau (English: Weller Aircraft Construction ) is a German aircraft manufacturer, owned by Roman Weller and based in Biberfeld.
 The company was founded in 1987 and in 2012 had two employees.
 It specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft, aircraft parts and aircraft repairs.
 The company has done contract specialized welding for automotive companies, including DaimlerChrysler, Porsche and BMW as well as work for aircraft manufacturers, including Scheibe Flugzeugbau and Sauer aircraft engines, and aviation museums, such as the Musée de l'Air, Deutsches Museum and the Technikmuseum Speyer.
Germania Flugzeugwerke GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturer during World War I.
 The company was established in 1914 at Leipzig.
 During 1915 and 1916, the company produced license built Rumpler C.I reconnaissance biplanes for the Luftstreitkräfte at Leipzig-Mockau Airport.
 The company also repaired other types of aircraft and maintained their own flight school to train pilots.
 with an approval for the civil aviation: DFW C V, Ru.
 C I a, Germ.
 C IV.
 There were 17 aircraft of the Germania Reichsluftamt aircraft works when approved.
Hugo Junkers (3 February 1859 – 3 February 1935) was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer.
 As such, he is generally credited with pioneering the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings.
 As founder of what would become the Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG following the First World War's armistice, he was one of the mainstays of the German aircraft industry in the years between World War I and World War II.
 In particular, his multi-engined all-metal passenger- and freight planes helped establish airlines in Germany, as well as all over the world.
 Although his name is also linked to some of the most successful German warplanes of the Second World War, Hugo Junkers himself had nothing to do with their development.
 He was forced out of his own company by the Nazi government in 1934 and died on his 76th birthday, in 1935.
Lanitz Aviation is a German aircraft manufacturer based in Leipzig.
 The company specializes in the design and manufacture of aircraft fabric systems and in particular their Oratex material for model and ultralight aircraft.
 The company also has developed and produces three ultralight aircraft that were originally produced by British manufacturers Escapade Aircraft and The Light Aircraft Company.
The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft.
 Design work started before World War II began, but problems with engines, metallurgy and top-level interference kept the aircraft from operational status with the Luftwaffe until mid-1944.
 The Me 262 was faster and more heavily armed than any Allied fighter, including the British jet-powered Gloster Meteor.
 One of the most advanced aviation designs in operational use during World War II, the Me 262's roles included light bomber, reconnaissance and experimental night fighter versions.
Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (JFM, earlier JCO or JKO in World War I), more commonly Junkers, was a major German aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer.
 It produced some of the world's most innovative and best-known airplanes over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau, Germany.
 It was founded there in 1895 by Hugo Junkers, initially manufacturing boilers and radiators.
 During World War I, and following the war, the company became famous for its pioneering all-metal aircraft.
 During World War II the company produced some of the most successful Luftwaffe planes, as well as piston and jet aircraft engines, albeit in the absence of its founder, who had been removed by the Nazis in 1934.

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 The Me 262 Project is a company formed to build flyable reproductions of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter.
 The project was started with the Texas Airplane Factory and administered by Classic Fighter Industries.
 It is based at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, United States, near Seattle.
 The project team of designers, engineers and technicians completed the flight test program in 2012 and delivery of the first of five jets. 

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 Fred Parkinson Holliday DSO, MC, AFC (20 February 1888 – 5 March 1980) was an Australian fighter pilot and ace of the First World War.
 He shot down 17 German aircraft between his entry into the war and its end, making him the 11th highest-scoring Australian-born pilot of the war.
 He served with the RFC and RAF throughout, in the No. 48 Squadron.
 He was awarded the Military Cross on 26 July 1917 for a particularly successful encounter with five German aircraft, and was later given the Distinguished Service Order. 

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 The Machine Gunners is a children's historical novel by Robert Westall, published by Macmillan in 1975.
 Set in northeastern England shortly after the Battle of Britain (February 1941), it features children who find a crashed German aircraft with a machine gun and ammunition; they build a fortress and capture and imprison a German gunner.
 The author also wrote a play based on the book, and others have adapted it for television and radio.
 A sequel, "Fathom Five", set two years later, was published in 1979. 

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 Weller Flugzeugbau (English: Weller Aircraft Construction ) is a German aircraft manufacturer, owned by Roman Weller and based in Biberfeld.
 The company was founded in 1987 and in 2012 had two employees.
 It specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft, aircraft parts and aircraft repairs.
 The company has done contract specialized welding for automotive companies, including DaimlerChrysler, Porsche and BMW as well as work for aircraft manufacturers, including Scheibe Flugzeugbau and Sauer aircraft engines, and aviation museums, such as the Musée de l'Air, Deutsches Museum and the Technikmuseum Speyer. 

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 Germania Flugzeugwerke GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturer during World War I.
 The company was established in 1914 at Leipzig.
 During 1915 and 1916, the company produced license built Rumpler C.I reconnaissance biplanes for the Luftstreitkräfte at Leipzig-Mockau Airport.
 The company also repaired other types of aircraft and maintained their own flight school to train pilots.
 with an approval for the civil aviation: DFW C V, Ru.
 C I a, Germ.
 C IV.
 There were 17 aircraft of the Germania Reichsluftamt aircraft works when approved. 

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 Hugo Junkers (3 February 1859 – 3 February 1935) was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer.
 As such, he is generally credited with pioneering the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings.
 As founder of what would become the Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG following the First World War's armistice, he was one of the mainstays of the German aircraft industry in the years between World War I and World War II.
 In particular, his multi-engined all-metal passenger- and freight planes helped establish airlines in Germany, as well as all over the world.
 Although his name is also linked to some of the most successful German warplanes of the Second World War, Hugo Junkers himself had nothing to do with their development.
 He was forced out of his own company by the Nazi government in 1934 and died on his 76th birthday, in 1935. 

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 The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft.
 Design work started before World War II began, but problems with engines, metallurgy and top-level interference kept the aircraft from operational status with the Luftwaffe until mid-1944.
 The Me 262 was faster and more heavily armed than any Allied fighter, including the British jet-powered Gloster Meteor.
 One of the most advanced aviation designs in operational use during World War II, the Me 262's roles included light bomber, reconnaissance and experimental night fighter versions. 

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 Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (JFM, earlier JCO or JKO in World War I), more commonly Junkers, was a major German aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer.
 It produced some of the world's most innovative and best-known airplanes over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau, Germany.
 It was founded there in 1895 by Hugo Junkers, initially manufacturing boilers and radiators.
 During World War I, and following the war, the company became famous for its pioneering all-metal aircraft.
 During World War II the company produced some of the most successful Luftwaffe planes, as well as piston and jet aircraft engines, albeit in the absence of its founder, who had been removed by the Nazis in 1934. 

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Answer: Washington