Flying Bomb Projects

[hesham]

Hi,


here is a two Germany flying bomb projects,the first called Ballistikfreie wing-bomb,
it was from Arado company,and the second was from Luftfahrt-Forschungsantstalt or
Aviation Research Institute for Human-Controlled Bomb of 1943.


http://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/arc...se/Bemannte Geschosse Luftwaffe Kamikaze.html

 

[Jemiba]

"ballistikfrei" means non-ballistic. By clicking on the drawing in the link, you'll
get the full drawing with explanation of the components.

About the "project by the Luftfahrt-Forschungsanstalt": Careful, that's not said in the scanned
documents! Actually it's not mentioned anywhere, who made that sketch, but the explanation,
how a manned bomb should be designed, mentions that this layout (pilot seated dorsally) would
impair vision onto the target.
The sketch is shown in the file containing the documents and is mentioned in the article as "attached
to the proposal", but it carries no page number, so I would recommend prudence to put it in direct
relation to that proposal from October 1943, which was principally about the deployment of an airforce
unit tasked with "effective attacks on pinpoint targets", not a specific design.

 

[hesham]

OK my dear Jemiba and many thanks.

 

[hesham]

And from Flieger Revue Extra 40,it's Heinrich Project.

 

[hesham]

From Rivista Aeronautica 1937,

what was this ?.

 

[Apophenia]

From Rivista Aeronautica 1937,

what was this ?.

Can't say exactly but the Italian writers have garbled the name of "capitano Mc Millian" [sic]. The reference should be to Captain Norman MacMillan, MC, AFC who wrote many books and magazine articles between the world wars.

The latter included submissions to Flight and The Aircraft Engineer Magazine, but this theoretical 'robot plane' seems to have originated in an article for The Aeroplane.