Luftwaffe 1946 Thread

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>>32874439

>>32874439
Nazi pod racer.

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Wehrboos will never compete with the efficiency of these designs. Make all the stupid looking shit you want. It'd all crash just like how the Luftwaffe was losing more aircraft from accidents in 1944 than from combat.

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>>32875346
Looks more like Grievous' ship from Revenge of the Sith.

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Tailless aircraft are sexy as fuck.

>>32874448

>bailoutblender.jpg

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>>32874439

>>32875346
>"Now this is blitzkrieging!"

>>32874448

What was the supposed advantage to this design?

>>32875686
pilots cant be captured for interrogation/bargaining after bailing out

>>32875686
No turbulence from the props along the leading edge of the wing, while still having a normal tail unlike most pusher-prop planes.

>>32875665
>Yipee
-Hitler on hearing the news the French surrender

>>32875735
>>32875686
Also room to mount radar in the nose, and to minimize lateral distance between the engines.

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Blohm & Voss had the best designs

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>>32875802
You were saying?

>>32875802
"How do you want your bomber, mein fuhrer?
"Just fuck my plane up, Fritz."

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>>32875802
that's not even the best one

>>32875813
Isn't that Richard Branson's space ship?

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>>32875822
They actually got this one flying and it wasn't terrible

>>32875370
How the hell does this even work? Someone had to be on drugs when they thought of this aeronautical abomination.

>>32875370
Imagine the sound that would make

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>>32875856

Pervitin is a helluva drug.

>>32874439
Isn't that from Crimson Skies?

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This would have replaced both the Stuka and the Hs 129

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>>32875665

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>>32875856
Lockheed made something similar except instead of jets it used a prop. It worked but they never went anywhere with the concept because it's retarded

>>32875837
hahaah fucking why

>>32875933
Not only does it look retarded but I imagine it takes quite a bit of skill to land one of those compared to a normal aircraft. It can't be easy to land it upright like that.

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Some Focke-Wulf designs were pretty interesting

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>>32875967

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>>32875936
Probably something to do with a more efficient layout for a three-engined seaplane.

>>32875972
Damn that's a cute plane.

>>32875936

Hitler's pecker was slightly canted to the right, so because of the offset of thrust to weight the plane had to trim enough to track at a slight, but visible angle through the sky. Like watching a plane come in to land with high wind

>>32875435
just jam the prop when you pull a lever that opens the canopy or something like that

IL-2 1946 is a good game for these.

>>32876115
just like an ejection system in the kamov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfpX-zA6uPY

>>32876115
It might be like the Do 335 where the bolts holding the prop on would explode and allow you to bail out without being turned into a smoothie

>>32876144
fuck im tired, i meant blow away the blades someway like the kamov

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Do the Wargaming Me 262 HG variants have any historical basis at all? Any napkins?

>>32875950
I'm not absolutely certain on this but I think the plan was to bail out instead of trying to land them. Goes for the German monstrosity as well.

>>32875333
>400mph dildo.jpg

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>>32876169
https://youtu.be/Nh9dhBJY010

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>>32876157
Wikipedia isn't listing any HG variants for the 262 at all, but that design sort of reminds me of the Messerschmitt P.1112

>>32875735
>>32875780
the engine looks way too far forward and the cockpit way too far back

would be an absolute bear to land

>>32875884

Nice.

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I can't recall the name, but it looks just like the bloodhawk from the old crimson skies game.

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>>32876192
Looks like one HG I proto made it. HG II was damaged and didn't fly. HG III is napkin only.

>>32875972
>put two insanely heavy engines on the far back of the plane, installed on thin, fragile ends of fins.
>fuk center of gravity
This thing would not even stand, yet alone fly.

>>32876683
They were ramjets, so basically just empty barrels with fuel injectors. Not heavy turbojets.

>>32876999
Oh, my bad. So the centrall one was a turbojet and the back-ones, support ram-jets?

>>32875967
where's the battlestar

>>32875472
basically a dh112 venom

>>32874439
>Luftwaffe 46
>otherwise known as pure made up fanfiction nonsense, 'but, hey! I drew a swastika on it, lol, it's historical!"

>>32875967
>fockwulf
>literally someone reconfigured a messerschmidt airframe

>>32877142
>>32876999
>>32875972
Yes.

Basically a "Shit Hans, hit the Benzin!!!!!!" speed booster.

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>>32875371

Daily reminder that the US had working designs for better fighters than anything the Germans could produce but made a strategical decision to overwhelm them with proven, well-built designs.

Choose reliability in an industrial war, it always works.

>>32875710
hehehe

>>32878590
>P-80
>Working
>Reliable

Well, I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

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AMERIKA BOMBER

>>32875886
Plenty of Crimson Skies aircraft are based on weird-ass IRL protoype designs.

>>32875370
This looks so funny. I can't imagine being in the Luftwaffe looking at these things taking off without pissing myself with laughter.

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My favorite one I love the engines

>>32875370
>grand dad what did you do during the war?
>i fought flying nazi dildos

>>32875813
Looks like someone had been dipping into Hitlers meth supply

>>32875802
>>32875813
>>32875837
>>32875844
>>32875837
It's like they had a bet who's gonna design the most stupid aircraft untill they'll get letter from the Hitler that they need to stop wasting rescources.

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>>32875371
have you ever seen one in person ?

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Overrun before use.

>>32878610

Should read a bit more before laughing, son. The P-80 was indeed working (and could have probably been deployed if they were in a hurry, and with superior pilot training and resources it would have performed better than anything the Germans had) but they made the obvious choice of keeping the working, reliable, propeller driven designs.

Because instead of wunderwaffen they needed to win a war, ya know.

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>>32876354
old version of Microsoft flight sim have it

>>32875967
>No pitch control
OKAY

>>32878934
Elevons ? aircraft control surfaces that combine the functions of the elevator (used for pitch control) and the aileron (used for roll control).

>>32875802
>when a bro won't come at you

>>32874439
looks like a friggin podracer. sweet.

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>>32876115
Or you toss the pilot out of there with enough enthusiasm (and gunpowder) that he'll clear the pilot.

>>32879123
>>32876115
>>32875435
how it is normally done
is explosive bolts on the propeller and tail fin
then pop canopy and bail

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The first guy to use a bang seat in anger was in one of these.

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Not sure what the benefit of this design was

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Did you guys know that the MiG-15 was a ripoff?

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This aircraft runs on ramjets, which means that a rocket-assisted takeoff would be necessary,

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>>32879237
Supersonic coal powered interceptor.
Let's not push many boundaries this time :)

>>32879274
While the fuselage could have done it, is there anything suggesting the powerplant would actually have been able to push it past the sound barrier?

>>32878723
Nope. The EF 150 was designed and built by captured Junkers engineers working for the Soviets postwar.

All this shit reminds me of Secret Weapons Over Normandy. Anyone remember fighting Kreiger in the Daimler Benz Z?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk4DC5WNleU

>>32879351
What if the Germans had Lascannons?

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>>32879615
Same guys, different management.

>>32878926
If a pilot only saw this for a second, he would easily mistake which direction it was going in

>>32874439
Moar Do-335.

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>>32879984
"No."

>>32875371
>based p-47
Mah Nigga

>>32878750
There is just something so 1940 about the xp-55. I love it.

>>32875933
At least it has contra-rotating props so it wouldn't be like being in a blender in flight
>What is Newton's third law?

>>32875967
Are you sure these aren't from the sketchbooks of the children of Luftwaffe pilots?

>>32878724
P80 was shite, only thing it would have had on the 262 was better engines that lasted longer, in all other aspects it would have gotten it's ass handed to it. and as far as winning the war by the time the allies could have gotten it to europe the war was was already over.

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>>32876127
The he-162 series are a joy to fly in that game, my favorite is the 162c model, pic related.

>>32879246
>Did you guys know that the F86 was a ripoff?

>>32879351
NEEDS MOR DAKKA

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Messerschmitt P.1101 under construction when it was captured by US forces. Greatly influenced the design of the Post-war Bell X-5

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>>32879670

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>>32880445
Honestly I'd argue the X-5 was effectively a P.1101 with a mechanism installed to let it move its wings in flight.

>>32875856
The concept made sense. It was an interceptor that only needed about a car parking space of a run way, the idea was they could put them in the parking lots of factories and other positions and be able to take off quickly and defend the local area from allied bombing.

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Arado 381 parasite fighter, designed to be carried by an Arado 234 light bomber/recon plane.

Only a few unpowered and unmanned test aircraft were made

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>>32880954

>>32874439

0 roll rate the machine

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>>32881084
I love early German jet aircraft designs and their 'where can we strap on more turbojets?' ideas

>>32875844
>wasn't terrible
It actually handled quite well, and had a god-tier FOV for a recon plane because of the whole asymmetry thing.

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This one actually looks good.

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The Horten can go fuck itself.

>>32876157
IIRC HG I was made, HG II was planned to be made, and HG III never left the paper.

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The Wasserfall ground-to-air missile would have BTFO Allied bombers; it was designed to home in towards bomber formations using signals transmitted from a nearby radar station, and then would home in on the pitch of the aircraft engines one it got too close for the radar signals to accurately guide it.

>>32880963
Arado 381 Suicide Coffin

>>32881217
Wasn't the Wasserfall terminally IR guided? Or am I confusing another missile?

I do know that the seeker got tweaked ever so slightly (lead versus pure pursuit) but otherwise directly cloned for AIM-9A tests (or whatever they called it in those six to eight weeks prior to tri service naming conventions kicked in).

>>32881291
My bad, it switched to IR targeting once it got close to the bombers, and used the pitch of the bomber's engines to detonate.

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Would night fighters have had a role in a cold-war era Nazi Germany?

>>32874439
Whatever plane they made would have no fuel, no competent pilot and wouldn't even put a dent in opposing air power. This assumes it doesn't crash on take-off or landing also.

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Terrible visibility.

>>32878715
>untill they'll get letter from the Hitler that they need to stop wasting rescources.
It's more likely they'd have gotten such a letter from Speer, Hitler was not known for his grasp of industrial efficiency.

>>32878724
Worth noting also that the British could have had a jet fighter in the air much earlier than they did, the Meteor simply wasn't a priority because meme weapons don't win industrial wars.

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Post schnellbombers.

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>>32881423

All of these aircraft look like shit that I've made in Kerbal Space Program.

>>32880365
You literally know nothing about the flight dynamics, engine, or just about anything at all about the P-80. It had a higher roll rate, tighter turn radius, better acceleration, and more reliable engine than the 262. The 262 was not a fighter in any form, nor were pilots told to try and mingle with piston engined prop planes, which they had no chance of maneuvering with.

Either educate yourself, or stop posting here and go back to shitthunder

>>32879855
>german psyops

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The Junkers Hubjager is pretty interesting

>>32881660
All your aircraft look like obscure German prototypes.

>>32882154
>this thing someone made in photoshop, I think is pretty interesting, well not really, lol. Kek

>>32882211
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_EF_009

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>>32878715

It’s almost like they kept cooking up “wonder weapons” to prevent being drafted into the infantry and sent to the Russian Front…

>>32882195
Am I destined to create Nazi war machines?

>>32882232
Depends. How many times have you killed Jeb today?

>>32882224
>Literally one reference
>the one reference infers it was almost entirely made up, by the author himself

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>>32882226

U.S. had neato planes in the works also;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XP-72

I wonder what could've been if germany had one or two more years of war.

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>>32882296

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>>32882308

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>>32882296

I raise you the most idiotic thing to ever come out of a Republic factory:

The XF-84H Thunderscreech.

>>32882241
Zero, that I know of.

>>32882330
A supersonic turboprop airplane? Why?

>>32882357

Because why not?

>>32882330
>thunderscreech
[Thunder Screeching]

>>32882348
If you want to build nazi war machines you need to work on your genocide skills.

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it's out of the op but if we're talking about hilarious prototypes the XF-84H needs to be mentioned.

"Powered by a turbine engine that was mated to a supersonic propeller"

"The XF-84H's propeller traveled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards."

>>32882330
shit, the thread updated after I submitted >>32882390


fucking thing scared 1950's test pilots into quitting, the pressure from the prop at idle knocked people cold on the tarmac, the constant vibration caused myriad health problems among other separate ground/flight crews

absolutely amazing machine for all the wrong reasons.

>>32882330
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>32882411
>the pressure from the prop at idle knocked people cold on the tarmac
AHAHAHAHAHHA, that would've been fucking hilarious to watch

>>32882330
>>32882357
>>32882361
>>32882364
>Literally called the Thunderscreech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YItexQxJS9U

>>32882427
>"Fucking normies, get off my tarmac"
>SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>32882427
The fucking thing gave one of the engineers a seizure just standing close to it.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2003/09/11/934718.htm?site=science/greatmomentsinscience

>>32882330
>confederate flag
nice

>>32882440
>if /r9k/ were a plane

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>>32878715

Richard Voigt was the head designer of most of BVs designs

When he worked for Dornier he was told that he should develop a distinctive style to set his designs apart. Probably followed that advice a bit too literally.

>>32879237
what french comic series involved this plane?

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>>32882330

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>>32875856
>>32875933
>>32882330
>>32882296

The british went a step further with the Fairey Rotodyne - instead of having props or even jets on the wing tips it just ignited fuel-air explosions on the tips of the main propeller.

>one benefit is that because the main propeller is propelling itself - not being spun by a motor in the main aircraft body like a helicopter is - there's none of the torque problems that helicopters have to handle with tail rotors.
>the down side is that it is spinning so fast that it has to be carefully designed so that the blades don't constantly create deafening sonic booms, and even staying subsonic it is really loud BEFORE the constantly explosions that are moving the blades are considered.
>not very fuel efficient, to save fuel the strapped small jet engines on the wings for travelling long distances quickly
>only use anyone could think of for it was intercity transport of small numbers of people - essentially competing with business jets.

>>32882906

Sorry, correction, they OF COURSE stuck turboprops on the wings for horizontal flight.

>>32882300
You wouldn't have to wonder if you actually read a book or two. It's an accomplishment that the 262 even went into service at the late time that it did. The constant bickering between Goering and the upper echelon of the Luftwaffe that lead to the 'Fighters Revolt' of 1945 was supposed to end with Adolf Galland himself, general of the Fighters and creator and head of JV44 being executed on Goering's orders, just for being logical and wanting to save the Luftwaffe and divert resources from obsolete programs and put them to good use, like 262 pure fighter variants

>>32880445
>>32880479

Bell was working on vg/swing wing designs before they ever had access to the P1101

It was strongly influenced by it, but not entirely derived from it.

>>32882330

Didn't the Thunderscreech make people on the ground literally shit themselves from the noise/vibration?

>>32883095

No, its an accomplishment that the 262 went into service at all.

Willy messerschmitt himself projected an inservice date of 45/46 when the program started, and its rather surprising that it advanced as quickly as it did, especially considering the situation and manpower limitations.

Galland may have been right in hindsight, but keeping the 109 in production was done because of a few factors. There was a massive amount of tooling already in existence for it, the production had largely been spread out to forest and cave factories already, and perhaps most importantly it lent itself well to production with non-strategic resources like steel and wood.

>>32879351
>soviets and germans collaborate on new HIND project

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>>32881304
> Radio guidance to target
> IR terminal guidance
> Acoustic fuze for warhead

If it gets more German than that, I haven't yet heard of it.

>>32875686
It's effectively sabotage. Maintenance is real and a driveshaft spinning a mid-fuselage prop is the stuff mechanic nightmares and lost sorties.

Splitting a fuselage sucked enough with later jets. Fuck yanking a tail for a prop blade replacement.

>>32878590
Wikipedia:
After the war, the USAAF compared the P-80 and Me 262 concluding, "Despite a difference in gross weight of nearly 2,000 lb (900 kg), the Me 262 was superior to the P-80 in acceleration, speed and approximately the same in climb performance. The Me 262 apparently has a higher critical Mach number, from a drag standpoint, than any current Army Air Force fighter."[6]

>>32879666
came here to post about this

>>32883267

german engineering really means "because we can"

>>32875967
The Ta 283 athodyd (ramjet) fighter

The Me p.1110
The sexiest of them all!

https://youtu.be/-WtVMSdQpUw

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>>32883849
Forgot the picture

>>32883849
>>32883860
Holy boundary layer ingestion, batman!

>>32883849
thanks for the video, but i prefer the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icDjfa1JZII

>>32882226
>It’s almost like they kept cooking up “wonder weapons” to prevent being drafted into the infantry and sent to the Russian Front…

I certainly would!

>>32882390
Sounds like it didn't work.

>>32879666
I fucking loved that game. It was the first game my dad ever bought me

>>32883434
>one source, from a poorly researched book

In reality, the P-80 was a fighter, meant to actually engage other fighters. The 262 could merely fly in straight lines, at high speed. That's it.

Level speed (mph/ft)
Me-262: 484/0, 502/7500, 513/12900, 525/13700, 525/16300, 529/17400, 519/20000, 513/26600, 518/3200 (RAE Report Avia 6/9201 and TsAGI tests)
P-80A: 510/0, 514/5000, 524/15000, 534/25000, 512/34900, 494/39900 (USAAF Memo Rep. No. TSFTE-2009)
Climb Rate (fpm/ft)
Me-262: 3000/1900, 2800/4400, 2680/6700, 2600/9100, 2350/9600, 2070/12600
P-80A: 4900/0, 4500/5000, 4000/10000, 3600/15000, 3200/20000, 2750/25000

The Schwalbe had a slightly higher critical mach, 0.83 (0.80 for the P-80A), which, in a hypothetical dogfight, would give it a chance to escape the Shooting Star in a dive (the US fighter had a higher ceiling).


Some sources claim the 262 had a better acceleration, but this may have stemmed from taking at face value the cross-tests the USAAF had run, after the end of the war, between a specially prepared Me-262 (e.g its paint polished, etc) against the early, De Havilland Goblin-powered XP-80 prototype.

With about the same total thrust, the P-80A was about 2000lb lighter.
The Shooting Star had a lower drag area - 3.20 sqft, against the Schwalbe's 4.68 sqft
The spool-up time of the centrifugal turbojets of the time was lower than their axial counterparts

The P-80A had a very high roll rate, said to be pretty close to that of the FW-190, the 262 could hardly roll or turn at all.

A simple rolling scissors defeats the 262 every time.

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>>32883434

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>Nathan they haven't posted it yet
>what do you mean sparks
>boss you better post it

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while the game featured non of these concept aircraft they were true to their WWII designs

>>32884403
>Whitty & Douglas M210 Raven
Literally the most retarded engineering I've ever seen.

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>>32884465
look at this badboy

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designed to launch planes

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>>32884561
>carry and launch other aircraft

>>32882696
It was called Wunderwaffe

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Designed to carry 22 other aircraft

>>32879237
It was surprisingly stable at super sonic speeds.

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>>32884589
They wanted this shit bad

And now for something more boring, but actually real. The closest thing to an Amerika Bomber. Conceivably able to drop one atom bomb on NYC from Berlin.

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>>32884640
oops

>>32884578
Parasite planes were much more common than you think, almost to the point that they're not even worth discussing, they were so tried and used

>>32884671
>Parasite planes
This was a bank of aircraft in the zeppelin to be launched as a mobile airstrip. the planes would fallout the bottom to be launched.

>>32881356

Such directional stability

does there exist a single functional aircraft with the propulsion system located behind the center of mass?

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>>32885348
Let me rephrase that... I'm looking for a fighter plane with the propulsion behind the center of mass.

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>>32885368
Its called jet aircraft. they have been around for a while.

center of lift is another story with pros and cons.

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>>32885368
if you mean propeller aircraft. then the Dornier Do 335 saw combat

>>32885368
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAAB_21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_F.E.8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airco_DH.2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_F.E.2

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Arado Ar 234
First Jet powered bomber
Fast but a very small bomb load and very short ranged.
Not really a experimental but was only able to be produced in small numbers.

Germany did too many special snowflake weapon systems but Hitler was swayed by Rule of Cool over practical.

>>32884308

Perfect for Boom and Zoom tactics favored by 109 aces.

>>32884578

If it hung all its planes outside itself and they turned their engines on did it move faster?

>>32885859
yes. thats basically how zeppelins moved faster anyway

>>32885859
how are you planning on booming and zooming anything thats faster and higher-ceiling than you

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>>32884561
>>32884578

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>>32886097

>>32876178
kek

>>32879213

Only germans could make a happy-plane intake not look happy.

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I wish Sweden didn't suck these days.

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>>32887150

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>>32887178

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>>32887226

>>32881374
Blohm + Voss, fuck your normal airplanes we want to see if this fucked up looking thing can be made to fly...

>>32878724
p-80 is shit and so are you

>>32884308
Yeah no me-262 is still better bitch

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>>32874497

>>32888252
>>32888264

You have to be to 18 to post on this site, now back to your shit containment zone

>>>>/wtg/>>>>>>

>>32878612
>>32878617
>Hans! Zis bomber can't get off ze ground!
>MORE ENGINES

>>32882330
Dirty deeds... THUN DER SCREECH!

>>32888299
JEWS!

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>>32888264

>ITT: things straight outta kerbal space program

>>32875868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Hi_NCYNTM
something like that I'd imagine

>>32875665
Kek

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>>32875813

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>your physics can't defy my engineering

>>32875884
it's still called pervitin here in the czech republic. and it's very popular.

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>>32875813
It's not Pepe... It's his airbourne cousin!

>>32881130
What is this plane?

>>32884647
Germans fucked up by not having long rage bomber that was able to go over Urals.

>>32887150
>Swedish black bird
Neat.

>>32874439
So basically what I'm getting from this thread is that the nazis were middle school-tier aircraft designers

>>32879375
Yes. Takeoff rockets to get it to speed and altitude, then the coal powered ramjet takes over. Remember that ramjets work more effective the higher and faster you get.

>>32874439
Its to bad Hitler couldn't have waited another 10 years before he started WW2. The amount of meme machines would have been insane

>>32890270
You'd get another decade's worth of napkin sketches, but that's about it. Only wartime desperation got these designs beyond that, and in most cases their odd looks are because they then got stuck in early development, before someone had to make the fucking thing fly.

>>32889944
all dose dubs

>>32876212
how exactly would laying in the prone position assist with handling G forces? I'm having trouble imagining how the effects would be different from a normal seated position.

>>32890449
I know. But with advances in technology I'm sure the Germans could have come up with things that looked even more insane.

>>32890474
Instead of your hearth needing to pull the blood all the way up from your feet to your brain it merely has to pull it form your face to your neck.

>>32890491
On paper perhaps. In the air you'd get another Sabre/Mig 17/J29.

>>32890474
Humans are actually much better at handling G-loads in some directions than they are at others. This is why most modern fighter jets don't have upright seats, they actually recline pretty far back.

>>32884403
>>32884421
>>32884429
respect. this is a nice game.

>>32884589
>>32884609
ok !? what is this thing?
can you give me some info about it?

>>32875802
>*autistic screeching*

>>32879274
Quite an improvement over the wood burning propulsion system.

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>>32887178

What's the context of this picture?

Why are the French shooting down an American P-38 Lightning?

Is this some kinda alt-history WWII?

>>32883983
What does that result in?

>>32890887
it was an aircraft designed to carry u to 22 planes to and from air combat. its unclear if launching the aircrft in air was apart of the plan or if they were supposed to land this guy

>>32878590
Be more subtle when you are going to troll.

>>32875967
for fighting ww2 era cylons?

>>32891852

"The success of the 1110 layout depends upon obtaining a satisfactory
solution to the engine intake problem. Since the small fuselage precluded
a fuselage nose entrance and the thin wing (plus main wheel stowage)
prevented the use of a wing intake, the solution lay in the use of fuseläge scoops. These chosen were of the send-flush type, located at about
2 and 10 o'clock on the fuselage sides, above the after portion of the wing
root. Boundary layer control, power induced, was considered necessary to
make these scoops work. Two boundary layer suction slots wore located on
the inner surface of each duct, all four slots connecting to a common
secondary duct which fed to a separate blower on the engine shaft. This
blower raised the secondary flow to about the same pressure as that
recovered in the primary flow at the engine entrance. The total air requirements
of the engine were 24 cu, m/s (8i+.5 cu ft/s). Wind tunnel
tests of a 1/2 scale model (at 50 ra/s, 164 f/s) of the duct and boundary
layer control system showed 1/3 of this flow (8 cu ra/s, 28.3 ft/s) would
have to go through the boundary layer blower in order to attain a total
head recovery of Bk% q in the remaining 2/3 (primary) flow. The blower
power for this arrangement came out 200 shaft h.p. at sea level. Although
the recovery in the primary flow was undesirably low, excessive blower
power would be required to bring it up to the desired value of 95-98?J.
'x'ne deficiency in ram recovery gave a calculated thrust loss (as compared
to that with the nose intake) of 0%, The 200 shaft h.p. to the blower
lost another k% of the thrust. The drag co-efficient of the airplane,
however, was about 16$ less than that of the 1101 or 1106 designs giving
a net increase in V max. of about 2 1/2%, making the top speed of the
1110 design about 1015 to 1020 km/hr (630-635 mph). (NOTE: 620 mph at
23000 ft. given by Hornung - See Table I)."

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a953437.pdf

>>32892948

in other words a pretty much non-workable design

lots of additionally complexity for a fairly negligible gain, and it probably would not have worked on the full scale aircraft.

>>32880963
>landing skid
oh god

>>32892305

its true though

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>>32887150
My god...that is beautiful!

>>32889318
This 100%.

>>32880963
Let's see here, C-stoff is mostly methanol and hydrazine, T-stoff is mostly high test hydrogen peroxide.

Oh joy.

>>32879213
It looks terrified

>>32882154
Did WWII Germany play Kerbal Space Program?

>>32879237
fuckin battlestar galactica. Gas the cylons before they can betray their masters.

>>32887150
>Implying it didnt ever suck

>>32882520
Laughingyellowface.jpg

>>32882226
They kept cooking them up to keep up morale after it became clear that they were going to lose at the rate they were going. The war was lost after Stalingrad.

>>32877607
>>32875972
It's a SLAM drive.

>>32897220

and aircraft makers were trying to retain engineers/draftsmen/jig makers

near the end of the war it was ordered that if they were caught inflating the number of needed personnel for a project, they could face court martial. supposedly messerschmitt would just double the numbers of how many they thought they would need

>>32889892
What's the purpose of that needle? To stab someone midair?

>>32898899
To blend in with the Narwahls.

>>32875418
Unstable as fuck too. Shame the Nazis didn't have flight computers

>>32898950
well they did have room full of mathematicians

>>32898899
aerodynamics and/or a pitot tube, I'd guess.

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>>32898944

>>32875813
what the frog.

>>32877144
>nazi BSG
Goddamn now i have a hardon

>>32879222
>HELO attack ze verdammt Cylons!

>>32880393
>did you guys know that given a certain problem and the same tools to fix it, engineers usually come up with the same answer

>>32881340
>mein Messerschmidt has eaten all ze cakes

>>32889892
Wait what, did Nazis invent VTOLs as well?

>>32875922
>"Hanz! The Fuhrer is coming to pick up those plans for the new plane tomorrow!"
>"FUCK. Just throw something together in Kerbal Space Program, throw some guns on it, and make up some bullshit about it being the next generation of aircraft, he always buys it."

>>32878934
Who needs pitch in the void of space niqqa

>>32898899
Test instrumentation

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>>32888515
Tibetans, actually.

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>>32888264