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Tuesday, May 14, 2019


3 comments:

mudpuddle said...

is that one of those buzz bomb thingies?

CyberKitten said...

It does look a bit like a V-1. It's the jet engine on top that's pointing you in that direction. This is an experimental jet fighter that (luckily) went into very limited production in the closing months of WW2.

The Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger (German, "People's Fighter"), the name of a project of the Emergency Fighter Program design competition, was a German single-engine, jet-powered fighter aircraft fielded by the Luftwaffe in World War II. It was designed and built quickly and made primarily of wood as metals were in very short supply and prioritised for other aircraft. Volksjäger was the Reich Air Ministry's official name for the government design program competition won by the He 162 design. Other names given to the plane include Salamander, which was the codename of its construction program, and Spatz ("Sparrow"), which was the name given to the plane by Heinkel.

[From Wiki]

mudpuddle said...

wood! amazing... volksjager=people hunter?