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hesham said:My dear Dan,
that means this designation was real Project,some sources suspected in it.
cluttonfred said:OK, I am missing something. Where is the rest of the drawing?
Why are the main gear so long - there is no prop arc to account for? Just curious.....Speculative landing gear drawings
Why are the main gear so long - there is no prop arc to account for? Just curious.....Speculative landing gear drawings
Enjoy the Day! Mark
Why are the main gear so long - there is no prop arc to account for? Just curious.....Speculative landing gear drawings
David Masters also had a version of the drawing in his 1982 book German Jet Genesis. I asked David where he got the drawing from and he told me that it came from Heinz J. Nowarra (I presume that's the drawing on p853, Justo - David says 'hi' btw!
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It's not entirely correct to say that Ae 607 is a drawing number either - it's actually more like a sheet number. I've attached Ae 608 and Ae 601 to this post so you can see what I mean. It's possible that the Ae numbers relate to a particular collection of sheets. So there might have been several Ae 607s, each with a different drawing, graph or page of text on, each in a different collection.
David Masters also had a version of the drawing in his 1982 book German Jet Genesis. I asked David where he got the drawing from and he told me that it came from Heinz J. Nowarra (I presume that's the drawing on p853, Justo - David says 'hi' btw!
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It's not entirely correct to say that Ae 607 is a drawing number either - it's actually more like a sheet number. I've attached Ae 608 and Ae 601 to this post so you can see what I mean. It's possible that the Ae numbers relate to a particular collection of sheets. So there might have been several Ae 607s, each with a different drawing, graph or page of text on, each in a different collection.
There has been speculation on this forum that David Masters was a pseudonym and that he was an unknown quantity. It is reassuring to know that he is still around after all these years. If you get the chance, please pass on one reader's excitement at finding his German Jet Genesis on the shelves, all those years ago.
The sheets you include to illustrate the Ae system are in fact Ae 601/1 and Ae 608/1. This indicates that each is intended as the first in a potential series of sheets or pages numbered (say) Ae 601/2, Ae 601/3 and so on. One is diagrammatic graphs, the other plain text. This makes it clear that the base Ae XXX number designator is more akin to a technical study ID than either a single sheet on the one hand or a design project on the other. The first sheet in such a study might not be given its /1 suffix unless a /2 sheet were created, and even then sloppy practice might still leave it off. Or conversely, it might be given its /1 but /2 never materialised. In the case of the Ae 607, the sheet is clearly identified as Zeichnung Nr. Ae 607, Seite 1. Literally "Drawing No. Ae 607, Sheet 1", which, in shorthand, would be written Ae 607/1. In such a system, say a text commentary might well be identified as "drawing" No. Ae 607/2 so that the master copy would be kept with the Sheet 1 master. Or at least, this has been the practice in every drawing and design office I ever worked in/with. So I have fair confidence that the three-view drawing was the initial document or sheet in a technical study which might or might not have accrued subsequent bits of paper.
I wonder if he knows anything about the very early Levis models, especially the engine designs? There is a Levis five-cylinder inline aero engine dating from ca. 1914 on display in the Science Museum and a record elsewhere of a Levis twin-cylinder aero engine from 1912. Both were built for the Belmont Aeroplane Co. belonging to Messrs. James and Thompson. But I wonder whether there were ever any others? Levis company records at the National Motorcycle Museum go back only to the start of WWI.Dave Masters ... generally writes about classic motorcycles
I wonder if he knows anything about the very early Levis models, especially the engine designs? There is a Levis five-cylinder inline aero engine dating from ca. 1914 on display in the Science Museum and a record elsewhere of a Levis twin-cylinder aero engine from 1912. Both were built for the Belmont Aeroplane Co. belonging to Messrs. James and Thompson. But I wonder whether there were ever any others? Levis company records at the National Motorcycle Museum go back only to the start of WWI.Dave Masters ... generally writes about classic motorcycles
Is this project, the one that informed the lifting body designs in the USA?Flying wing fighter designed by Blohm & Voss early in 1945. Design is apparently unnamed, Ae 607 being the name of its blueprint. Image from Dan Sharp's "Luftwaffe: Secret Wings of the Third Reich".
I did wonder whether David Masters was a real person. Then one day I received a letter from him. It turns out that the main reason it's been so hard to find him (I tried Jane's, the publisher of German Jet Genesis, but they had no remaining information from their early 1980s book publishing days) is because he generally refers to himself as Dave Masters. Apparently Jane's insisted that he had to be 'David' so he went along with it but has always been known as Dave. He generally writes about classic motorcycles and has actually written many pieces for Mortons titles. He told me that his interest in German secret projects began in 1960 when he got hold of 20 old issues of the Air Training Corps magazine dating from the immediate postwar period which included articles about them. He put the book together based on these articles, other postwar articles and a single contemporary report - the famous German Aircraft: New and Projected Types from January 1946. As you've said elsewhere, I think, German Jet Genesis holds up well in some areas despite the lack of primary source material. Dave was a pioneer and is a thoroughly nice chap to boot. I'll pass on your good wishes when I next speak to him.
Regarding the Ae series, none of the drawings on 4097 have /1 on them. They're all single sheets. Some of the drawings even look identical but get different Ae numbers. There is only one Ae 607 but many graphs, charts and text pages do fall under a single Ae number. Looking through my other B&V files, some full reports do include Ae sheets - for example the technical data pages of the report on the P 150 (from 1941) are Ae 325/1 to Ae 325/10. The rest of the report, including the drawings, is entirely without Ae numbers. Some B&V sheets (many posted elsewhere on this forum by kiradog, for example) have AeM numbers.
In any case, here are the Ae sheets present on ADRC/T-2 4097 (numbers written as they appear on the sheets - duplicates are where one or more copies of the same sheet appear on the microfilm reel):
Ae 620/1
Ae 620/2
Ae 618
Ae 615
Ae 613/1
Ae 613/2
Ae 612
Ae 611/1
Ae 611/2
Ae 610
Ae 609/1
Ae 609/2
Ae 608/1
Ae 607
Ae 605
Ae 602
Ae 601/1
Ae 601/2
Ae 601/3
Ae 601/4
Ae 601/5
Ae 601/6
Ae 601/7
Ae 601/8
Ae 601/9
Ae 601/10
Ae 601/11
Ae 601/12
Ae 601/13
Ae 601/14
Ae 601/15
Ae 601/16
Ae 600
Ae 599/2
Ae 599/1
Ae 598
Ae 597
Ae 595/1
Ae 595/1
Ae 595/1
Ae 595/2
Ae 595/3
Ae 595/4
Ae 595/5
Ae 595/6
Ae 591
Ae 590
Ae 589
Ae 588
Ae 587
Ae 586
Ae 585/1
Ae 585/2
Ae 585/3
Ae 585/4
Ae 585/5
Ae 583
Ae 582/1
Ae 582/2
Ae 582/3
Ae 582/4
Ae 582/5
Ae 582/6
Ae 582/7
Ae 582/8
Ae 580/1
Ae 580/2
Ae 580/3
Ae 579
Ae 578/1
Ae 578/2
Ae 577/1
Ae 577/2
Ae 577/3
Ae 577/4
Ae 577/4a
Ae 575/10
Ae 575/8
Ae 572
Ae 571
Ae 570
Ae 569
Ae 568
Ae 567/1
Ae 567/2
Ae 567/3
Ae 567/4
Ae 566
Ae 565
Ae 564
Ae 563
Ae 562
Ae 562-04
Ae 562-03
Ae 562-02
Ae 562-05
Ae 562-01
Ae 560
Ae 559/2
Ae 558
Ae 557/1
Ae 557/2
Ae 557/3
Ae 557/4
Ae 557/5
Ae 556
Ae 555
Ae 553/2
Ae 553/1
Ae 552/1
Ae 552/2
Ae 552/1
Ae 552/2
Ae 550
Ae 549/03 H03
Ae 549-03 H02
Ae 549-03 H01
Ae 549-03
Ae 549-02
Ae 549-01
Ae 549
Ae 549-0322
Ae 549-0302
Ae 549-0301
Ae 549-03 H02
Ae 549 H03
Ae 549-03 H01
Ae 549-03
Ae 549-0201
Ae 549-02
Ae 549-01
Ae 548
Ae 548 (again)
Ae 548 (again)
Ae 547/1
Ae 547/2
Ae 547/3
Ae 547/4
Ae 547/5
Ae 547/6
Ae 547/7
Ae 547/8
Ae 547/9
Ae 547/10
Ae 546
Ae 545/1
Ae 545/2
Ae 544/1
Ae 544/2
Ae 543/1
Ae 542/2
Ae 542/2
Ae 542/1
Ae 541/2
Ae 541/1
Ae 540
Ae 539
Ae 538/5
Ae 538/3
Ae 538/4
Ae 538/2
Ae 538
Ae 536
Ae 536
Ae 535 Seite 1
Ae 535 Seite 2
Ae 534
Ae 533-1
Ae 533-2
Ae 533
Ae 532/1
Ae 532/2
Ae 532/3
Ae 537
Ae 529-7
Ae 529-6
Ae 529-4
Ae 529-5
Ae 529-2
Ae 529
Ae 528
Ae 527
Ae 526
Ae 525
Ae 525
Ae 524
Ae 523/1a
Ae 523/2a
Ae 522/1
Ae 522/2
Ae 520
Ae 519
Ae 519
Ae 519)
Ae 518-1
Ae 518-2
Ae 518-3
Ae 517/2
Ae 517/1
Ae 516/2
Ae 516/1
Ae 515/1
Ae 515/2
Ae 515/2a
Ae 515/3
Ae 515/4
Ae 515/3
Ae 515/2
Ae 515/1
Ae 514-4
Ae 514-3
Ae 514-2
Ae 514-1
Ae 513
Ae 511
Ae 510/1a
Ae 510/2a
Ae 509
Ae 509
Ae 508-1b
Ae 508-1a
Ae 508/1
Ae 507.7
Ae 507.6
Ae 507.5
Ae 507.4
Ae 507.2
Ae 507.1
Ae 506/1
Ae 506/2
Ae 506/4
Ae 506/3
Ae 505-1.4a
Ae 505-1.2a
Ae 505-1.4a
Ae 505-1.2a
Ae 505-1.2
Ae 505-1.3
Ae 505-1.4
Ae 505-1.1
Ae 505-1
Ae 504/2
Ae 504/1
Ae 503/1
Ae 503/2
Ae 503/3
Ae 502-9
Ae 502-8
Ae 501-H02
Ae 501-H05
Ae 501-H04
Ae 501-H03
Ae 501-H01
Ae 501
Ae 501
Ae 501-24
Ae 501-15
Ae 501-14
Ae 501-13
Ae 501-12
Ae 501-11
Ae 501-09
Ae 501-10
Ae 501-09
Ae 501-90
Ae 501-H05
Ae 501-H03
Ae 501-H02
Ae 501-H01
Ae 501-07 -08
Ae 501-05
Ae 501-03
Ae 501-06
Ae 501-04
Ae 501-02
Ae 501-01
Ae 501 Blatt 2
Ae 501 Blatt 1
Ae 500/4
Ae 500/3
Ae 500/2
Ae 580/3