The P.173.02 looks very very similar to the BV 250 (infact appears to be a terrestial version of the BV 238)
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Google translated from Chronik Eines Flugzeugwerkes 1932-1945 - Blohm & Voss Hamburg, Hamburger Flugzeugbau GMBH by Hermann Pohlmann. Published by Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1982. ISBN 3-87943-624-X (pages 147, 148, 149)
BV 250
Greater transporter
- Bomber - reconnaissance fighter bomber
Long before the first flight of the BV 238 V-1 had the design office deals with a country version of the BV 238th
On a related project study P 161 was created in March 1942 a detailed construction details »BV 238-land ', later official-type Term "BV 250«.
For various uses could be achieved the following benefits:
1. Under normal transport routes about 2000 km was over 40 tons Load will be charged, for example, two to three 10 tons of heavy armored vehicles. With a relatively small increase of the loading area would be even the transport of a 35 to 40 tons heavy tank have been possible.
2. As a bomber with a flight distance of 7000 km were 20 tons of bombs be carried.
3. As a long-range bomber 4 AQUA tons of bombs was a flight distance of 10,000 km to reach
4. As a long-range reconnaissance of such 14000 km.
From the above in use. Jngszwecken would most notably the large transporters have been of interest because of Normal transporter of the German Air Force The Junkers Ju 52, was for some Transport tasks much too small.
From the flying boat BV 238 has been in the design Build everything except the underwater hull adopted, namely in the dimensions and weights of the BV 238:
DATA TABLE
The main difference to the flying boat lay in the transformation of the underwater vessel to the recording room for the retracted wheelsets of Zentralfahrwerks, the nose wheel and dropping loads large caliber. Since the body only a width of 3.5 m had was the gauge of the undercarriage a row of six in three rows arranged Doppelradsätzen (total twelve o'clock wheels) is not large enough for a sufficiently high roll stability. These could only be achieved through two Supporting wheels, articulated the aspirations of the in the outer wing retractable supporting swimmers.
The total package of Combination was about six meters, a rather daring design. The effort, from the terms Design and manufacture complete BV 238 flying boat with as little Redesign, a new, multi - to-use and fast lieferbares Make land plane, forced to Compromises, for what should be a long-range bomber or long-range reconnaissance with the large Cargo space? And for the heavy-truck 150 soldiers with full equipment or two or three 10-ton tanks for relatively short flights
- Was actually the entire top deck with recreation area, kitchen, etc. superfluous.
Engine plant, equipment and weapons
BV has been taken over by the 238th The redesign of the hull bottom and the re-development of the chassis have been carried out, the manufacturing was not started.
