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What do you mean with "luft'46" ?
It wasn't a project, but an attempt to create an aircraft similar to the P-38 Droop Snoot, and the document you've
attached gives its role as "Leitflugzeug" (leading aircraft), intended to achieve a high accuracy for horizontal bombing,
as it was fitted with a Lotfe bombing sight.
Perhaps you could mention the sources of those photos/facsimiles ? Please remember, it's mandatory anyway !
That document given the weights mentions the lower part of the Mistel as "Stoffträger" (from "Sprengstoffträger", carrier
of explosives) and somehow brings us back to the discussion we had here: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,23397.0.html
In post #49 there, I tried to sum up the weight of explosives, the fuselage could have been filled with and the results are
quite similar. And so I really doubt the feasibility of that weight of explosives, because of the flyability of the resulting Mistel !
It wasn't a project, but an attempt to create an aircraft similar to the P-38 Droop Snoot, and the document you've
attached gives its role as "Leitflugzeug" (leading aircraft), intended to achieve a high accuracy for horizontal bombing,
as it was fitted with a Lotfe bombing sight.
Perhaps you could mention the sources of those photos/facsimiles ? Please remember, it's mandatory anyway !
That document given the weights mentions the lower part of the Mistel as "Stoffträger" (from "Sprengstoffträger", carrier
of explosives) and somehow brings us back to the discussion we had here: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,23397.0.html
In post #49 there, I tried to sum up the weight of explosives, the fuselage could have been filled with and the results are
quite similar. And so I really doubt the feasibility of that weight of explosives, because of the flyability of the resulting Mistel !