Dornier LA-2000 Stealth Aircraft

[hesham]

Hi,

the Dornier designed the LA-2000,a subsonic ground attack stealth aircraft
in 1986.

http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1986/1986 - 1271.html?search=dornier stealth aircrafthttp://home.xmsnet.nl/hdejong/curious/stealth.htm
[substituted better copy of drawing - Overscan]

 

[JAZZ]

and with some colour

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Text from Flight International:

Dornier reveals stealth study
Dornier's study for a subsonic ground attack aircraft with a very low radar signature has resulted in this design, designated LA-2000. It features a 6m3 internal weapons bay with a retractable weapons platform. Air intakes for the twin unreheated low-bypass turbofan engines, each with a thrust of 2,550kg, are under the wing leading edge, with the jet pipes exhausting at the trailing edge of the wing through a single two-dimensional vectoring nozzle.

 

[vulture]

To Hesham;


Thanks! You've made my day! Thanks again.

Vulture

 

[hole in the ground]

Does anyone have a decent guess as to what the proposed engines could have been? I have been having a bit of a search and cant find any close enough to the proposed thrust figure.

 

[kaiserbill]

The Adour which powers the Jaguar and Hawk springs readily to mind.

 

[hole in the ground]

Ah, thank you very much

 

[Matej]

This aircraft is puzzling me a lot. According do Dough Richardson´s Stealth Warplanes, "The original drawing on which the magazine´s sketch was based had not been released by the company, but seems to have leaked from the German defence ministry."

This answers my question, how it is possible that it was published so soon (in 1986), but raises another obvious question - is the original drawing still available somewhere? And where to dig for the rest of original material - in some EADS archive or museum?

 

[fightingirish]

Another artist 3-view drawing of the Dornier LA-2000 stealth aircraft.


Some Info from the short article:
Wingspan: ~10m
Weapons bay: 6m³, 2 tons weapons load
Project weight: 11.6 tons


Source: Interavia Germany, May 1986, page unknown

 

[LVisingr]

Newly found drawing, from a friend from Germany...

 

[Hobbes]

Newly found drawing, from a friend from Germany...

Can you find out the source for that image? And did the book/magazine contain any more information on the LA-2000?

 

[LVisingr]

Can you find out the source for that image? And did the book/magazine contain any more information on the LA-2000?

My friend only said that it appeared in a certain private thread at FB, without any mentioned source, sorry.

 

[fightingirish]

[...]
My friend only said that it appeared in a certain private thread at FB, without any mentioned source, sorry.

IMHO the picture is taken from an issue of the Swiss magazine Interavia. Unfortunately the two university libraries near me are currently closed...

 

[flateric]

My friend only said that it appeared in a certain private thread at FB, without any mentioned source, sorry.

https://www.facebook.com/6693965864...584556373742/2470604633038401/?type=3&theater

 

[edwest4]

My first look at this aircraft.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/175322339166?hash=item28d206975e:g:87UAAOSwSLZig3kl

 

[Jemiba]

It should be remembered, that the Hobby mag wasn't really renowned for its accuracy. This drawing differs
quite considerably from this one : https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/dornier-new-projects.1911/post-187944 ,
which, of course, was published much later. So I think, it rather is an artist's interpretation, of what a stealth fighter
could look like.

 

[edwest4]

Thank you for your reply.

 

[fightingirish]

I think we might have found the source.

Newly found drawing, from a friend from Germany...
View attachment 629838

German Magazine "Hobby - Magazin der Technik" July 1986

 

[archipeppe]

Interesting project, it reminds me the later Avenger II.

 

[edwest4]

Very much the Avenger II.

 

[Dynoman]

Model of Dornier LA2000

 

[boxkite]

Does anyone have a PDF file of the entire magazine?

 

[fightingirish]

Hey folks, I just came across this 3-view drawing on the Facebook page Cancelled Aircraft.
The original source is the German magazine "Hobby - Magazin der Technik," published in July 1986.
Edit:
As @Jemiba noted in post #16, this unofficial drawing represents the artist's interpretation for the magazine.

 

[Avimimus]

The different artist conceptions show radically different degrees of thickness and internal volume...!