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Baade 152.

Searched for a thread on this plane but couldn’t find one. This was an East German plane that never got to production.

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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:
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I'm not an aerodynamicist (if the word exists), but am I right in thinking that the nose down trim would need to be quite powerful?

A bit like the B737 MAX, maybe?
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Looks like a B-47 that was caught unawares, mugged, raped and impregnated by a mongrel on a dark night.
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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

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I had a very rough plastic kit of this, along with a Comet by the same manufacturer. Both were made in East Germany I think.
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In fact the swept wing design of the Boeing B-47 was influenced by german designs as well, that's according to Boeing:
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.
https://www.boeing.com/history/produ...stratojet.page

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The soviets even test flew one prototype before named "samoljot 150" designed by the same german team.
I think Samoljot was a subsidiary of Yunshuji. Or possibly the other way round.
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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).

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Originally Posted by Less Hair
Thats just "airplane".
Er, yes, as is Yunshuji (transport aircraft).

Next time I'll put more than one smiley.
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One old boy has got a good line in Schnapps at 6.29.
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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.
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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.
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