I was surfing around on the net a while back and came across some pretty interesting drawings of planes the luftwaffe were planning on building Look here at some of these designs. Does anyone here know if any of these planes were actually built and used?
Lets try this again shall we http://www.luft46.com/luftart.html
Some are real designs, most never flew…some of the odd asymmetrical designs are real ones, though.
The totally lopsided prop-plane in the picture credited to Ronnie Olsthoon was a real aircraft. I only recognise one other design (the one with the piggy-back jet engine)and I don’t know if any were built/flew. They did build some weird stuff tho’
Fuelled by stuff (two types of “stoff” IIRC) that would dissolve the pilot.
The Germans were a bit short of pilots towards the end of WWII.
Wasn’t the fuel called “T-stoff”. I think I read somewhere once that it was highly explosive and any exposure to air would ignite it. I think it was almost “if not more” lethan than nitro glycerine :eek:
I read Luftwaffe and lopsided and knew it had to be the BV 141. I find it strange that the page includes a pic of a “crash landed” one as, from what I’ve read, it was actually a good design. It looks strange and unsafe. But, it’s aerodynamically sound. The designer was never able to convince people of that and few were ever made.
AFAIK The Luftwaffe was only in the preliminary stages of building a flying wing. The prototypes were made out of wood.
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The Japanese airforce built and successfully used the Bakka, a human-guided missile. It was hooked onto a standard fighter and dropped at cruising altitude. The pilot, who had minimal training and may have been coerced into the mission, would ignite the rocket engine and have a few minutes to find a target. Then, he just aimed the Bakka, and the huge explosive cone in the tip, down.
A weird one that is not on the luft 46 list is the Dornier 335 . I was always interested by that plane.
Luft 46’s “Prototypes” page lists at least some of the designs that actually made it to the prototype stage. In addition, the Ruhrstahl X-4 made it to the prototype stage, as well.
Few, if any of them, however, saw combat. (After all…then they wouldn’t be on an unbuilt Luftwaffe designs site, would they? 
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