| /Airplanes/Axis/Germany/01-Fighters/Fw-Triebflugel/Fw-Triebflugel3.htm | Up-dated: 02-09-2022 |
Top view: Flight position (Artist's view !) |
Vertical take-off position. German concept for an vertical take-off and landing tailsitter interceptor, designed in 1944, during the final phase of World War II as a defence against the ever-increasing Allied bombing raids on central Germany. The Triebflügel had only reached wind-tunnel testing when the Allied forces reached the production facilities. No complete prototype was ever built. (Artist's view !) |
Fw
Triebflugel Specifications |
| General |
Type:
VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) fighter/interceptor |
| Engine |
| 3 × Pabst ramjets, 8.9 kN thrust each* |
| Dimensions/Masses |
Length: 9.15 m
| Width: 11.50 m | Height:
? m |
| Performances |
| Max. Speed: 1000 km/h** | Ceiling: 15300 m | Range: -350 km |
| Armament |
MG:
2× 30 mm MK 108 cannons (2 x 100 rounds) & |
(*) Since ramjets do not operate at slow speeds,
either the rotor had to be driven by a fuselage mounted takeoff-booster or
3 × small Walter liquid fuel rockets or 2 × standard German Walter
109-501 RATO units , 14.71 kN thrust each
(**) Never exceed speed: 2700 km/h
