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Junkers G.38 flying wing concept. All passenger accomodations would have been placed within the aircraft's wings with forward facing windows. A twin boom design with two engines in pusher configuration was also envisioned. Source: "Prof. Junkers nannte es "Die Fliege"" by Hermann Pohlmann

Blohm & Voss Ha 139 Flying boat projects and derivatives. Ha 139 information & photograph archive. https://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?17545 Hamburger Flugzeugbau pdf document, detailed overview of the Ha 139 with rare photographs from the...

A single He 111 H-16 was modified to engage low speed aircraft (mostly reconnaissance and light bomber biplanes) on the Eastern Front. Armament consisted of 5x forward facing 20mm cannons (3x in cockpit and 2x in wing roots) + 1000 kg payload for bombing. Flown by Oberstleutnent Günther Bertram...

Hi there. I hope this is the right place to ask, don't really know what I am doing I’m trying to contact a specific user on the closed 12 O’Clock High (TOCH) forum, and I can’t access it because registrations are disabled, and the contact form hasn’t worked. I’m the grandchild of Lt. Werner...

Sometime during WW2 Focke-Wulf studied a series of 3 very heavy bomber/reconnaissance aircraft designs, which go as follows: Wulf Fw P.0310.224.20 Long range bomber powered by 4 BMW 801E engines. Patrol and reconnaissance configurations were envisioned. Wulf Fw P.0310.224.30 Long range...

The Germans designed plenty of jet aircraft but which of them were actually good?

Blohm & Voss P.191 Very large, 8-engined aircraft. Designed to protect German bombers from flak by neutralizing it midair. Looking for information.

Hello I'm new to this forum. I'm about to start college next August for mechanical engineering; I'm particularly looking to concentrate on aerospace engineering design especially in both aircraft design and spacecraft design. I don't really care to wait till sophomore or junior year to start...

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Claude Dornier, The Do 335 Push-Pull Monster, WWII Nazi Blunders & Their Nemesis

Hitler's "Lightning Bombers": The Schnellbombers

Guten Tag! I really like the VJ-101C, it is like a German version of VTOL capable F-104G Starfighter clone without T-tail. It seems to be promising with a lot of potential. What will happen if it became a real operational military grade VTOL fighter jet instead of a short lived experimental...

www.DeutscheLuftwaffe.de was a website that archived original documents of World War II era German aircraft. It appears to have been restructured, with a lot of information being lost.

Hello all. I looked around and did not see any existing threads addressing this matter so I decided to start one. What I have been wondering for some time is the lack of manned turrets of world war 2 German bombers. All the pre war and early war models seem to have had dorsal and ventral gun...

Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke, The company was formed by the 1964 merger of two German aerospace firms, Focke-Wulf and Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH (Weserflug). The formation of VFW was a natural outcome, as the two companies had been collaborating, along with Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB), in the...

CONTENTS GUNS Ikaria MG FF (20-mm) Mauser MG 151 Series (15/20-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 103 (30-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 108 (30-mm) Mauser MG 81 (7.92-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MG 131 (13-mm) Mauser MG/MK 213 C Rheinmetall-Borsig BK 3.7 (37-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig BK 5 (50-mm) Mauser...

I am trying to ascertain the avionics suite of the Luftwaffe F-4F after the mid-life update and the eventual ICE upgrades. There is a nice panorama view of the cockpit of the F-4F #99+91, which is clearly non-ICEd, at...

Hi everyone, I tend to be quite interested in discussing the details of a scenario where the Entente holds the front near the Franco-Belgian border in 1940 (mostly in other forums). I was now wondering what the impacts would be for the RAF. Obviously we may see fewer American aircrafts in...

Henschel GT 1200 By the beginning of 1937, Dr Lorenz of Technisches Amt (Luftwaffe’s Technical Office) was sponsoring the Walter HWK RI-203 rocket engine that promised enormous power for its weight. This engine used compressed air to force a weak concentration of mono-propellant hydrogen...

In the late-war period a battery of the ill-fated 5cm FlaK 41 was directed by a remote controlled system, overcoming it`s manual traverse problems and testing what would be the Gerät 58 5,5cm control system. Does anyone know about this development?