Baade 152.
Incredible waste of money. They even developed East German jet engines. The entire project being based on Junkers research from WW2 and their (forced) postwar work in the Soviet Union.
This is the original promo film:
This is the original promo film:
It's originally a bomber layout from the same period of time for some WW2 nuke bomber. The soviets even test flew one prototype before named "samoljot 150" designed by the same german team. Imagine, mid to late 40s.
This one:
https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=1359
This one:
https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=1359
Last edited by Less Hair; 29th Nov 2020 at 17:47.
In fact the swept wing design of the Boeing B-47 was influenced by german designs as well, that's according to Boeing:
https://www.boeing.com/history/produ...stratojet.page
Near the end of World War II, Boeing aerodynamicist George Schairer was in Germany as part of a fact-finding mission. At a hidden German aeronautics laboratory, Schairer saw wind tunnel data on swept-wing jet airplanes and sent the information home. Engineers then used the recently completed Boeing High-Speed Wind Tunnel to develop and design the XB-47, with its slender 35-degree swept-back wings.
Last edited by Less Hair; 29th Nov 2020 at 14:46.
Thats just "airplane". It was still using the same numbering system like the 152 that goes back to the Junkers "EF" scheme (Entwicklungsflugzeug, development aircraft).
Last edited by Less Hair; 29th Nov 2020 at 19:16.
There was still some promo stuff for this hideous thing lying around at Elbeflugzeugwerke, Dresden when I was doing some work there a few years ago.
What sort of stuff did you still find? I have been there during their Fokker production times but not much was left except for that final fuselage, some Dresden made Il-14P and some spit shiny left over former East German Air Force Flogger that had received heavy maintenance at Dresden before unification.