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steelpillow said:Oh, and your next project? My personal vote goes to "German tailless and flying wing development 1919-1945", but I'm guessing that my second choice, Secret Missiles of the Third Reich, is the more likely?
It is not.
This is the third in my Luftwaffe series.
Luftwaffe: Secret Wings of the Third Reich
by Dan Sharp
£6.99 in the UK
Contents include the usual suspects, and some unusual ones too:
Various Messerschmitt designs - the P 01 (including a previously unknown drawing of the first P 01-116 from early 1939, and I have explained why Lippisch started with '116'), P 03, P 04, P 05, P 06 (including previously unknown drawings), P 08 (including a previously unknown drawing of it with two massive cannon mounted in the nose), P 010, several P 10s (including previously unpublished sketches), P 11, low aspect ratio interceptor Super 163 (previously unknown), Me 163 A, B and C (previously unknown ugly original version), both Me 263s, Me 329 Stuka version (previously unknown) etc.
Various Lippisch designs - Delta VI (including mock-up photos), P 13a, P 13b (including previously unpublished Lippisch sketches) etc.
Various Horten designs - I, II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, IX (including previously unpublished drawings) etc.
Various Blohm & Voss designs - Nurflügel Jager (aka Ae 607 - with the original contemporary drawing, published here for the first time), Göttinger (previously unknown - like the P 208 but with a tractor prop), P 208, P 209, P 212 (the P 212.01 is previously unknown - what's shown elsewhere as the P 212.01 isn't actually the P 212.01!), both P 215s (the first version was smaller with no turret), some other previously unknown designs etc.
Various Gotha designs - P-60A, P-60B and both P-60Cs.
Various Junkers designs - both EF 128s (the first version is previously unknown), the Ju 248 etc.
Various Arado designs - the 1930s flying wing (previously unknown), seven of the nine twin-jet night fighters (five of them previously unknown), the E 581, more on the E 555.
Some Heinkel designs (including, I think, previously unpublished drawings), some Focke-Wulf designs (see below).
And some other designs too...
It's gone to press and should be out within a couple of weeks.
NB: Based on my research for this title, it turns out that what's previously been established as fact about the progression of German flying wings and tailless aircraft is not entirely accurate. Lippisch didn't leave the DFS because of the Me 163, and he didn't leave Messerschmitt because of the Me 163. Focke-Wulf designed a giant flying wing transport in 1942, Wolfram Horten didn't die as a result of enemy action and the final production version of the Go 229/Ho 229/Ho 267 was going to be a two-seater.
And I found the original Focke-Wulf 1000 x 1000 x 1000 report. The so-called 'C' was actually drawn up months before the other two. I believe the reason that someone called it the 'C' was because the file is in reverse order - with the first page right at the back. The sketch showing the 'C' was made towards the beginning of the project. If you opened the file and rifled through it looking for drawings, without bothering to read the intervening pages, you would come across the later two first (and you might called them 'A' and 'B' even though Focke-Wulf didn't call them that), then find the earliest drawing right at the end and decide it must be later.
It's no wonder the only known drawings of it are re-draws - the original is horrible. You'll see what I mean.