first things first . So many years back and the details are a bit hazy but ı once had a booklet for spotters . Must have been early 1944 as it mentioned the "coming Invasion" . Had the He-113 , definitely mentioned that the long nosed 190 had been engaged in combat over Europe , had a very vague reference to '290 but nothing about the Fiat G-55 . My question then was whether what was generally taken as the best Italian fighter of the war was similarly engaged but reported as a German ? A further subtype of Kurt Tank's finest ? ı actually joined a now defunct site to ask that , my very first post anywhere , too .
only to stress that FW-290 existed in the Allied mind . Even if as a totally realistic suggestion that the langnase or Ta-154 would be that . Ju-290 in service since '42-43 and Allies would have known there should have been no repetition . Hence , this "was" a cover for something important , to explain how it would get so out of hand in 1946-47 . Formed after the 190 shock of 1941 , if you think this is bad , 290 will be a lot worse line of reporting , a yearning , a psychological need to fill the slot .
the required and standart notice ; that ı won't have the proof for what comes next . ı have searched the web , after seeing this . FW-290 is not the thing from that What If Speculative Modelling thread , with no negative attitude against the thread participants , one was not shot down by Robert S. Johnson's wingman on January 30th, 1943 , nor multiples were taken out in March / April 1944 . Though any true What Iffer would know ı , of all people , have two distinct 'proofs' that P-47Ns were reported for the Big Week and later as in "They looked remarkably heavy and fierce, and a lot like P-47's" or "This squadron [487th FS, 352 FG if ı get that right] engaged three FW-190s with longer noses and seemingly elliptical wings" on February 3rd, 1944 . ı won't be exactly popular to mind that they were supposed to be flown by Luftwaffe , first seen as motherships to Foo Fighters during the second Schweinfurth raid . All of them finally shot down , as soon as the pilot claiming one knew his gun camera film was unusable , but he had wingman co-operation , a story that began as an explanation for what was a disaster of the times .
people must understand this is a case study , for "real" people who are in the intelligence , on how people can see what they want to see . Am not real in that sense and have no doubts that there was real work on jet powered "all-weather" heavy fighters in Germany of 1945 . Especially the one that "got away"... Reality and fiction mix hard , but ı can honestly say , only for the one that got away that some of the numbers do not add up . Frontal turret and the tail turret not on same platform , but seperate projects , latter an attack type . If frontal turret , only 2 guns . Without turrets up to 6 "apertures" or gun locations , all of them fixed . 4 revolver cannons - in case of unavailability 6 Mk-108s that might well be taken from damaged planes . No drawings as ı asked this online about how a few of German engineers "reverse engineered" during interrogation after the Allied Victory . Design teams were shared between the Allies and for those not taken life must have seemed stark . Hence one poster in 2008 mentions the possibility of the FW-290 as a "small" rocket powered test plane . Remember the blind describing an elephant ? Became so real that the French mounted discrete expeditions to the Black Forest to find buried blueprints ; on the basis of one interrogated German who had a colleague that took them and the colleague was unfortunately killed , but the engineer might fill in all the blanks if he was employed for the next decade . The French even gave a name as well , which ı don't know . But ı have hearsay that Ian Fleming was tempted to write one , even possibly instead of Moonraker , but it might have ruffled Paris in the wrong way .
Grey Havoc said:
Wurger said:
What would be a "frontal sealed turret"?
Remote controlled turret, perhaps?
as for sealed turret , is the German word somewhat interchangeable with isolated ? Germans developed radars in "modern" radomes by the end , the word Berlin comes to my mind . If the turret was seperated from the radar bay , it would perhaps help to decrease the vibrations transmitted forward ?
