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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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“But popular rage,
Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down.
None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part
Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination.... After the racist statutes are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.”
—Michael Harrington (1928–1989)