"Focke-Wulf Triebeflügel Review" Topic

"MiniArt has followed sensible form and released a new access ladder and all-new colours from other Axis nations to the "What-If" design Focke-Wulf Triebeflügel & Nachtjager kits. This is the third boxing, with some new parts and all new decals (and amazing box art!) We thought we might show you the history, and the new arts in the kit in our preview.

The Focke-Wulf Triebflügel, or Triebflügeljäger, literally meaning "thrust-wing hunter", was a German concept for an aircraft designed in 1944, during the final phase of World War II as a defence against the ever-increasing Allied bombing raids on central Germany. It was a vertical take-off and landing tailsitter interceptor design for local defence of important factories or areas which had small or no airfields…."

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Armand

Great imagination gone into this. I do love the optional markings for various Axis nations.

I always think that the most amazing German designs to attack bomber streams at supersonic speeds all overlook the problem of something like the genuine Me262.

In the end you have to land the think, at a "slightly" reduced speed or even vertically. With the skies filled with P51D Mustangs….YAKATAKATAKA etc

Certainly some "out of the box" thinking by the Germans which they were known to do. Even some were only seen on the drawing board.

But history can't deny the concept of the V1 and V2 which were pretty much the precursors to the today's very effective cruise missiles. And the Me262 the father[or mother] of the modern jet fighter bomber.

The torque from that large prop with all that weight on the ends would have made horizontal flight a tough deal to control. The Germans were throwing ideas at the walls by 1944 to see what would stick.

And how does the pilot bail out?

Do they have to blow the wings off first?

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand