Give me a single reason why this toy shouldn't have been produced since 1940, or even earlier.It seems to be a no-brainer configuration.Imagine having a smaller version of it, equipped with 2 DB601s, during the Battle of Britain. Imagine building it instead of Bf 110s.
>>64572023So beautiful
1. It was an experimental paper design2. The Reichsluftfahrtministerium decided to fund the Heinkel He 280 and Messerschmitt Me 262 which were much more mature design wise3. Jet engines were a meme in the 1940's and it wasn't until years later that they became reliable enough to try as last ditch weapons (their engine life and reliability was terrible, but when you're not expected to survive....)4. Experimental jet aircraft were considered retarded, especially when the Bf 109's, when using similar fuel to the Spitfires, were able to nearly match them. Meaning that having some super experimental jet aircraft is pointless.5. It's better to have 10 mature aircraft built, than it is to build a single experimental prototype>b-b-b-butYeah OK if they suddenly had hundreds of them, sure. But you might as well go>Well the Brits have hundreds of Meteors then!Since the Brits at least had viable jet engines in 1936, they just had autism fight over who's job it was to fund it.
>>64572048OK, but what about the configuration alone (a push double propeller) ? It seems rather obvious. Even with DB601s (available since 1938) they could have built something similar, even if a bit smaller.I can't grasp why nothing like that was proposed before 1943.
>aggressively swept wing prop>oh, they are swept so hard because the center of gravity is so far back>fighter bomber>fighter>is bigger and heavier than the do 335>christI assume those are DB603s, not like it matters because whatever piston engine you are putting deep into the fuselage will have cooling issues and this thing has two.Controls of the plane should be worse at low speeds because it is no longer benefiting from propwash.Whenever this would have been built would have suffered from unknown fenomena associated with swept wing aircraft that have yet to be discovered.I am not sure on this one but pusher props have vibration issues, and therefore have shorter lifespans, as they are spinning trough air that has become turbulent from traveling over the airframe.
>was an experimental paper designend of thread
>>64572023Neat
>>64572048>Jet engines were a meme in the 1940's and it wasn't until years later that they became reliable enough to try as last ditch weaponsNo, they were not. Only stick-in-the-mud traditionalist 'my pa used radials so I don't need no newfangled stuff' idiots said that, and that mindset was retroactively justified by pointing to German problems due to lack of good metals.A 1942 aircraft like the 262 or Meteor was not a 'last ditch' weapon, it became one in 1944. The USAAF shat the bed with how they tried to fly P-80s, another point where the incompetence of various officers was masekd behind 'ooh yeah well it was all just experimental tech ecksdee'>Experimental jet aircraft were considered retardeEven more bullshit, everyone with half a brain knew that props were at the end of their game due to propellers almost going supersonic, they clearly understood jets were the future as soon as tehy saw the tech.
>>64572080>the configuration alone (a push double propeller)Untested, untried, and after 1939 the Luftwaffe kept on just building what was in production because it was going to be a short war.When they realized it was not going to be a short war in 1942 they started all kinds of new developments, dusted of older ones, etc.But they stil didn't want a plane with a super long, untested propshaft and gearbox in it, als Messerschmidt unironically bamboozled the RLM by promising his next plane would totally be the best thing ever.This 'next plane' was the 209, 309, 210 and 410, in turn.
Udet and his colleagues, chosen as old friends of Goering, were not competent enough to head the aircraft development department.
>pushersDouglas Aircraft tried it with the XB-42jets came along soon after, and post-WWII Douglas came up with America's first jet bomber the XB-43
The XB-42 was successful in long-distance flight tests, so it's a shame it was swept away by the jet age.
