" Hello Neil, here’s another completed 262 A-1. Unfortunately this is a kit I’ll be forgetting about – the new one from ARMA HOBBY, it really isn't as good as some other 72nd scale Me 262s out there. Nothing fits together; you even have to fill and sand the fuselage halves as they’re useless. If you know anyone building it, a word of advice: the ballast that ARMA provides with the kit, although well-placed, needs an extra 6 grams added, and even then it’s still borderline. The rest of the result is down to the paintwork I did. Note the 'crooked' starboard Balkenkreuz - I’ve added a photo of the real thing because the Balkenkreuz had to be retouched by the mechanics; it’s not a fault with the decal...."
On 25 April 1945, Mutke landed in Dübendorf, Switzerland, at the controls of the 9./JG 7 Me 262A-1a ‘white 3’. He claimed to have become lost during a combat mission and to have landed there by mistake, although defection was suspected. The Swiss authorities never attempted to fly the aircraft, keeping it in storage before returning it to Germany on 30 August 1957. Mutke unsuccessfully sued the post-war German government to recover the aircraft, arguing that it belonged to him. Mutke also made the controversial claim that he had broken the sound barrier in 1945 in an Me 262.