OK, one of them is this:
The
Focke-Wulf Fw Triebflügel (
Triebfluegel if the
ü-
umlaut is not used), or
Triebflügeljäger, literally meaning "thrust-wing fighter", 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 defense of important factories or areas which had small or no airfields.
The
Triebflügel had only reached wind-tunnel testing when the Allied forces reached the production facilities. No complete
prototype was ever built.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-W...iebfl%C3%BCgel
Also, this:
The
Heinkel Lerche (English:
Lark) was the name of a set of project studies made by
German aircraft designer
Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a revolutionary
VTOL fighter and
ground-attack aircraft.
The
Lerche was an early
coleopter design. It would take off and land sitting on its tail, flying horizontally like a conventional aircraft. The pilot would lie prone in the nose. Most remarkably, it would be powered by two
contra-rotating propellers which were contained in a donut-shaped
annular wing.
The remarkably futuristic design was developed starting 1944 and concluding in March 1945. The aerodynamic principles of an annular wing were basically sound, but the proposal was faced with a whole host of unsolved manufacture and control problems which would have made the project highly impractical even were it not for the materials shortages of late-war
Germany.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_Lerche
No need of Axis-wank world. Even if Third Reich just held Europe, could these two aircrafts out of design phase and into operational one? Are they really able to fly?
Thanks in advance!
