Fw 239 sketch - authentic?

Ummm... angling the engines in like that would actually accentuate aircraft yaw in the event of a single-engine failure - not to mention increasing turbulent airflow/buffeting/high temps on the tail surfaces of the aircraft at all times.

So I think it is unlikely that any aeronautical engineer was involved in that drawing.
 
So that was the initial "concept" drawing... replaced by later studies that actually looked like flyable aircraft.
 
The angle is way to extreme to be some accidental thing imho.

The engines matches the angle of the fuselage side. I would guess that they were trying to find ways of lowering drag by matching the nacelle with the local flow.
 
It's definitely not accidental. I have seen no credible explanation to explain the angle of the engines.
 

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