There's an intriguing piece of film footage from the Lippisch archives of a P13a gliding in for a landing in a hilly region of German occupied...
Yes T.A., the pancake was a spectacular design . Testing of concept models showed tail-sitting hovering modes but the full size craft did not seem...
There's some stunning Footage of a Fa-223 airlifting a whole fieseler storch off the ground here. Image and Film Galleries And the remains of a...
We don't but I only linked it out of interest. If a 262 was in the transonic range (and still in one piece!) then speculatively a rocket boost...
The test reports of the 262 and Mütke's disputed claims refer to engine flameout around mach 1 so that the planes only achieved Mach 1+ for a few...
Some interesting comments from here Leduc, the test flights regarding the french Leduc ramjet fighter prototype: On April 21st, 1949, after...
That's very true about the Wassefall T.A. Guiding it by sight was very tricky unless they made a warhead powerful enough to explode amongst a...
The supersonic windtunnels were used extensively in the German rocket and missile programs such as Wasserfall and the A4. The Germans had built a...
Considering the Germans already had used jets, had axial flow turbines, afterburners, turbo props etc and were aware of centrifugal turbines I'm...
I think you are making the assumption that these ramjet tests were exclusively to test an engine for the P13. (BTW, right click on the missing...
Um, why would I be upset answering questions and explaining things? It's fun! Not sure why you find it unlikely that a large engine was tested on...
Shucks, thanks. (I posted some comments in the Me262 supersonic thread too if you're interested and wrote large portions of the wikipedia V1...
The engine would have to be tested in a wind-tunnel due to the airspeed startup requirements. Rather than running the ramjet on the ground, I...
Sorry, but many ramjets work perfectly well at speeds as low as 200km'hr. You are mistaking the higher efficiency of ramjets at supersonic speed...
Hi. Actually the FW 61 is not an Autogyro at all. It was the worlds first successful helicopter and took off vertically. The image shown earlier...
