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Good find. The BV 141 on page 3 simply blows my mind.

yup, the germans were the best aircraft designers in 1946...  :)

Good job they never used them  :o

the germans were the best aircraft designers in 1946...  

Makes you wonder the outcome of WW2 if Hitler had waited 7 years and, THEN had the Battle of Britain, I don't think we'd have stood a chance. - Sadly.

All those projects were designed long before the end of WWII when aircraft production in Germany was stopped.

If only the 262 had been put into service at the beginning of '44 - the airwar would have been nearly unwinnable for the allied airforces.

The story that the Me-262 could have made a major difference in the war if not for Hitler's insistence that it be built as a fighter-bomber seems to exist in a fuzzy state between myth and fact. Most recent documents on the Me-262 suggest that the teething problems with the Jumo-004 engines were really the critical path for aircraft development, and though Hitler's insistence on development of the aircraft as a Jabo led to an bureaucratic fiasco, it doesn't seem to have made all that much difference in practice.

In fact, some authors have suggested that the idea of using the Me-262 in the "Jabo" role was not stupid at all. Hitler felt, with good reason in November 1943, that existing aircraft types could deal with Allied bombers. His major concern was to be able to deal with Allied amphibious landings on the beachhead where they were most vulnerable, and if there had been substantial quantities of jet bombers available that could have penetrated the thick fighter screen over the Normandy beachhead, they might have made all the difference.

Or maybe not. While I can outline the different possibilities, I have no stake in this particular controversy one way or another. History is not a controlled experiment, and the number of possible options to events is so open-ended that speculating what might have happened otherwise is possibly amusing but not very credible.

If only the 262 had been put into service at the beginning of '44 - the airwar would have been nearly unwinnable for the allied airforces.

I would like to see someone attempt to create one of these beasts for airshows