Heinkel He343

Hi Paul,
this could mean, that for some time both designations were used side by side, and that
there was an "EF 30" as well as an "EFo-30". But if those numbers were used chronologically,
the EF series seems to have started later, as the EF 30 was a Ju 52 design, whereas from EFo-08,
onwards there were jet aircraft amongst those designs.
BTW, in the Wagner book, the caption of the EF 50 says "from this model onwards all models were
designated only with the two letters "EF" instead of the three letters "EFo" "
So, plenty of opportunity for research, as Artie already suggested ! ;)
 
I forgot to tell you that German engineers invented oblique wing, crescent wing and W wing. ;)
 
Heinkel He 343 A-1 from Monogram's Close-Up #01:
 

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From, Jet Planes of the Third Reich - The Secret Projects-volume two.
 

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To all the model builders, the name "SilberBlitzen" is surly not correct, "Silberblitz" might have been the correct name. In German as well as in English, you usually don't choose a verb for a name (blitzen means something like flashing) but a noun.
 
SilberBlitzen pretends to be a plural, Silver Lightnings, as a name for the alleged squadron. Properly it would be Die silbernen Blitze or Die Silberblitze.

Edit: forgot an n, Thx Martin.
 
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Blitzen, if used as a name, refers to one of Santa's reindeers. Which is a clue to the nationality of whoever dreamed up SilberBlitzen.

Your next assignment: find out which (if any) US citizen was part of the He 343 development team. Hals- und Beinbruch!
 

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