Awesome WW2 experimental Aircraft

Some photos of a Tachikawa_ki-94 under construction.
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Griffon engine Wellington?
Nope, Merlin 60 series with 2-stage superchargers. The funny bit on the fuselage is a pressure vessel inserted through where the nose turret used to be. They were intended to let Pathfinders fly over the German defences, but in the end Mosquitoes did the same job rather better.
 
Nope, Merlin 60 series with 2-stage superchargers. The funny bit on the fuselage is a pressure vessel inserted through where the nose turret used to be. They were intended to let Pathfinders fly over the German defences, but in the end Mosquitoes did the same job rather better.

IIRC the Merlin 60 series was actually developed for this Welllington, but then someone suggested putting it in a Spitfire. Lucky, really.
 
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Another good German one is the Me 264. This version features the props in a push pull configuration aided with two Jumo 004s
 

Nick P

Donor
What are the bottom right two?

Middle one appears to be a De Havilland Mosquito in German markings. Instead of the actual Ta-154 Moskito.
Bottom one is a Heinkel He-162 Sea Salamander.... a waterborne version of the original People's Fighter.
 
Middle one appears to be a De Havilland Mosquito in German markings. Instead of the actual Ta-154 Moskito.
Bottom one is a Heinkel He-162 Sea Salamander.... a waterborne version of the original People's Fighter.
The German Mosquito also has a Dornier style twin rudder tail.
Pretty cool.
 
The two Fleet Shadower prototypes spring to mind. They went nowhere due to radar but the specification they were built to were very challenging.

 
Just Leo,

You! You! .... overly imaginative little boy.

You just suggested a whole series of "WI a DeHavilland Mosquito collided with an XYZ?"
 
Just Leo,

You! You! .... overly imaginative little boy.

You just suggested a whole series of "WI a DeHavilland Mosquito collided with an XYZ?"

There is a P-38 timeline featuring a piece of DH Mosquito equipment, so it's not just me. The best parts of a Mossie would have made several other aircraft better, particularly the crappy parts. I do try not to put crappy parts on good aircraft. I'm not really that imaginative, and I do get old age pension cheques. My memory is failing though, because I don't remember suggesting anything.
 
The two Fleet Shadower prototypes spring to mind. They went nowhere due to radar but the specification they were built to were very challenging.


Britain would have been better off with A-31s (A debacle because of 0 incidence wing chord; what were they thinking?) or autogyros.
 

Archibald

Banned
It looks like some kind of Kitten Halifax. I can see a wildlife documentary about it "When the Baby Halifax is born, the distinctive cockpit and four engine wing are already in place, but the baby bomber has not matured yet, and can barely fly.
When it grows, it learns to retract its undercarriage; it grows turrets, and defensive machine guns, and a bomb bay. Gaining in weight and size immensely, it morphes into a redoutable killing machine"

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