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To: Gideon7
Compliments of Luftwaffe '46

ME P.1109: This project number is not entirely certain, as the original document is damaged and barely readable. This was a further development of Dr. Vogt's work on the BV P.202 dated July 15, 1944, and was similar in that the sweep of the wings could be varied to improve low-speed flight characteristics. There were two variable-sweep wings, one above and one below the fuselage. Two He S 011 turbojets were mounted in nacelles and were located on each side of the fuselage. Apparently, this design was the subject of some further development after the war, according to some sketches discovered in France, but it is not known whether this was done by Messerschmitt or some other firm.

And this is not the only one from the Nazi's aviation braintrust that features variable wings...

6 posted on 06/25/2006 2:03:10 PM PDT by Bender2 (Gad! The inmates have control... And I'm trying to quit smoking!)
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To: Bender2
More like the NASA AD-1..


9 posted on 06/25/2006 2:13:44 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Bender2

Its rather funny to look at many of NASA’s “experimental” designs from the last 40 years and compare them with German research from the second world war. I’m a proud American, but its rather pathetic we keep rehashing these ideas and claiming that they are our own.


33 posted on 08/31/2007 11:30:05 PM PDT by jbpropilot
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