Arado Ar 234 Blitz - pedia

jet 234On the morning of 2nd August 1944, Lt. Erich Sommer took off for the world's first jet reconnaissance mission. Flying at 34,000 ft, pilot made three long photographic runs overGerman twin-engined, jet-propelled fhter plane, in foreground, and other planes were abandoned by Luftwaffe troops in large hanger of German airfield captured by III Corps, 3rd U.S. Army, at Manching, Germany.