Arado Ar E.555

[newsdeskdan]

The dead give away is always someone putting a manufacturers RLM code onto an internal company project code - Ar 555 instead of E 555. Had the RLM chosen one of the E 555 designs for production its not likely to have ever received the same number.
These lazy attempts to make something look like a legitimate "almost-were" always signpost a true "never-were".

Indeed. It's rather like those spam emails claiming to be from your bank, asking you to click a link, which let themselves down by making simple spelling errors in common words. You could almost believe - given the graphics and layout - that they are real, but the basic details are wrong.

That said, I would be overjoyed to see evidence of any kind from Herr Bohr indicating that the design shown is based on genuine WW2 documents.