I hope I am posting this thread in the correct location. I have a long term research project which deals with the development of tanks and other AFV from just before to just after WWII. I am looking in particular at the ethos of various national development directions engine, armour and...
Hi folks,
Embark on this with some trepidation (speaking as a firm sceptic about claims that Nazi Germany came anywhere near developing a functioning nuclear weapon or even knowing how such might be done) but digging around for stuff on Richard Rhodes and the Japanese nuclear efforts, I found...
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Maybe this really belongs in 'The Bar' but just indulging in a little alternative history speculation, I wonder what might have happened if what are to us genuine American, Soviet and British 1930s-1940s designs such as (e.g.) the Tremulis ‘Zero’ Fighter, the Lockheed L-133, the...
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DB 608
Work on this engine were launched in 1938. DB-608 is a further development of the engine DB-601. When the working volume of 36.6 liters the engine developed takeoff power 1210 kW (1650 hp.) At 2800 rev / min. The estimated altitude is equal to 5200 meters. Dry weight was 745 pounds...
Following the sad passing of the author Manfred Griehl last November, I doubt his pending volume on Fieseler (Fieseler: Flugzeuge seit 1933 - Typenkompass) will ever see publication. This is a great shame as Gerhard Fieseler was a World War I fighter ace who was also a stunt, aerobatic and test...
From Jet & Prop 04-05-06/2001,
we can talk here about Germany early canard aircraft and projects,the Aachener Segelflugzeugbau GmhH company with its designer Prof. Klemperer created many aircraft,one of them was a flying boat canard project,followed by FVA-3 single seat canard light aircraft...
Hi,
in the book; Rotorcraft of the third Reich,they spoke about NR-53-I and
NR-53-II,as they were an enclosed cockpit with undercarriage helicopters,
which they remained only a projects,dis anyone hear about them or had
a drawings to them ?.
In "Helicopters Of The Third Reich" by Steve Coates a German designer and constructor of helicopters is mentioned,
who, contrary to Anton Flettner, Gerd Achgelis or Henrich Focke remained widely unknown : Walter Rieseler, born in
1890. He started to build his first helicopter in 1936 after...
Watch this:
http://www.helios-verlag.com/index.php?id=184
The last images from the video pertain to a "suicidal" AA rocket intended to ramm bombers over the Reich. Some sketches seem to exist, one of them showing two of these underslung the wings of a Me262. I`ve never heard about it. Does...
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...so as not to hijack the British thread!
Let's start with a subject to which I hope to be able to make a meager contribution to: design constraints and philosophy behind design decisions.
Hermione Giffard's PhD thesis and hopefully soon-to-be book "The Development and Production of Turbojet...
The MBI book on the Heinkel He 162 presents several contenders in the "Volksjäger" competition, including the Blohm & Voss P 211.
Attached below are three-view arrangements of the two proposals described above.
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british intelligence objectives sub-committee
final report no. 254
german aircraft industry
nazigermany
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united kingdom
world war ii
In the autumn of 1944, Reichsmarschall Göring requested that Junkers, Arado and Messerschmitt design and produce very long range high speed bombers capable of carrying 4-ton bomb payloads. The goal was to be able to attack distant maritime convoys and strategic targets in both the U.S. and the...
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