Focke Wulf - 'Schnellbomber' (1942)

Good stuff Peter! Nice design indeed... great as a 3D subject as well! ;)



I like that modified fake B-25 too, by the way.
The original B-25 image appears labelled as B-25H... ???
 
Thank you all.


Hmmm...a scratch build AND a 3D as possibilities.... ;D


I would dearly love to see both. Double icing on the cake that would be.


P
 
Gorgeous work Peter!
May I ask - what is the inspiration for the camoflage pattern in the second profile?
 
Hi Nick.
I used to have a programme add-on (at my old workplace) that exploded and splintered colours and shapes. I kept some of the results.
The inspiration for this one was 'Tundra' or lichens I suppose.


I have a few more I might use on my next set.


P :D
 
Hi all
my German language is very poor, but have I missed any reference to performance figures on the data pages?
Or are there any speed, service ceiling estimates for both these schnellbombers anywhere?


Many thanks
P
:)
 
In the scans in #5 by borovik max speed is given as 630 km/h at sea level and as 740 km/h
at 6.500 m. Maximum altitude is gevien as 11.300m and range between 1500km (60% power setting)
to 1750 km (45% power setting). Those estimates seem not to differ for the version with nose and
tail wheel.

".. my German language is very poor,"
Don't worry, every day on job I realise, that this is true for many Germans, too ! ;)
 
Thank you Jens.
My English is also, at times, abfall, if that's correct?


:) P
 
We are interested more in the really important aspects of an aircraft, which are shape
and style . Performance data, especially those, that had never been proven, are nothing
but smoke and mirrors and our brain is trained to blind out those unimportant things auto-
matically.
So, it's not "Abfall" (waste), but long time training to apply Occam's razor, something,
many younger people, who are still getting excited about Mach numbers and the like, still
have to learn ! ;)
 
Hi,


from its report,here is the face drawing to it.
 
Hi,


it was the Focke Wulf P.101014-22 Project,all details here;


http://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/archiv/Dokumente/ABC/f/FockeWulf/projekte/Focke%20Wulf%20Bomber%20222%20CD/Focke%20Wulf%20Projekt%20222%20CD.pdf
 
Another smoke and mirrors question.....
What might the bomb payload have been for these?

Many thanks
P
 
According to the datasheet for the "Schnellbomber with Jumo 222 engines"up to 2,000 kg internally,
or 3,000 kg (two aerial torpedoes) under the wings .
 

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Maybe it is just me, but the top and head-on views (straight wing, not gull wing version) looks like the Heinkel 219A / He 219C.

Would there have been much difference between this Focke Wulf Schnellbomber and a Ju 222 powered He 219 with a bomb bay replacing the belly gun pack?
 
Piper106 said:
Maybe it is just me, but the top and head-on views (straight wing, not gull wing version) looks like the Heinkel 219A / He 219C.

Would there have been much difference between this Focke Wulf Schnellbomber and a Ju 222 powered He 219 with a bomb bay replacing the belly gun pack?
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The concepts are totally different, the Focke-Wulf bomber was designed so that all its systems were electrically driven, saving almost 250 kg of weight to carry more fuel and bombs.

The Heinkel was designed to meet a specification that called for a night fighter with additional capacity to carry bombs in daytime ground attacks, a stupidity of the RLM.
 
Flitzer said:
Hi all
my German language is very poor, but have I missed any reference to performance figures on the data pages?
Or are there any speed, service ceiling estimates for both these schnellbombers anywhere?


Many thanks
P
:)
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Just to let you now, ''Flitzer'' can have several meanings (generally a fast moving person), in the good old days (late 60 th and 70 th) it was a well known phaenomenon in Germany (I guess also in other countries) that streakers (aka ''Flitzer'') were usually young men running naked around the block after having some drinks at a party...:).
 
Adler said:
Can it be that the diagram is meant to show gunner positions specifically?
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Got me. It looks like the forward-facing guy is the pilot who has a periscope for some odd reason and a 20mm cannon next to him for use. That's all very odd. Of course, the inclusion of the remote-control gun positions is an absurdity that the Germans could never get to work quite right.
 

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