This is where things get interesting. Now we get the chance to fly the planes that didn't make it off the drawing board. The great unbuilt works of the Luftwaffe. Too bad most of these are fakes :(Although the Luftwaffe designers did have equally bizarre ideas. Peep these kraut crack jobs.
Dornier Do-335A-12 Pfiel (Arrow).The Dornier Do-335 Pfiel (Arrow), an experimental heavy fighter in flight test at the end of the war. It was one of the fastest piston-engined planes ever, but jets were already in service in 1944 and the 335 was obsolete before it got started. This is the 2-seat trainer version, referred to as the "Anteater" for its humpback and long snout.The Tamiya 1/48 kit. I like 'what if' scenarios, so I painted this in desert camouflage as if the plane had gone into service with 9./ZG26 in the North African desert. Decals borrowed from an Aeromaster Bf-110 sheet. Tropical filters taken from bf-109 kits
Focke-Wulf Treibflugel ("Thrust Wing").A proposal for a vertical take-off interceptor. The propulsion would have been provided by 3 ramjet-powered rotary wings rotating around a gyro-stabilized fuselage. It was never built. Probably a good thing for the test pilots.The 1/72 scale Huma of Germany kit.
Focke-Wulf Ta-183 Huckebein.A proposal for a jet fighter that was never built, but was well into development at war's end, with wind tunnel models built and tested. One can see many features already appearing that would be used on jets in coming years. In fact, the design was used by Russia as the basis for the MiG-15 fighter. This model even carries wire guided air-to-air missiles, which were in limited use at war's end.Markings are conjectural for JG1 Richtofen.
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