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The only German aircraft already built and flown that had a range close to this was the Messerschmitt Me 261 Adolfine, with a maximum range of 11,025 kilometres (6,850 mi). Had sufficient time and resources been devoted to the project at a point in time early enough, an Amerikabomber may have become operational before the war's end.
Blohm & Voss BV 144 [5] - Prototype passenger transport (1944) Blohm & Voss BV 155 - high-altitude interceptor developed from the Me 155 (1944) Blohm & Voss BV 237 - dive bomber, ground attack. Blohm & Voss BV 238 - prototype flying boat. Blohm & Voss BV 40 - Glider fighter. Blohm & Voss BV 138 - Flying boat.
This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used ...
The VFW-Fokker 614 (also VFW 614) was a twin-engined jetliner designed and constructed by joint Dutch and West German aviation company VFW-Fokker.It is the first jet-powered passenger liner to be developed and produced in West Germany (the East German Baade 152 being the first German jet airliner), as well as the first German-built civil aircraft to have been manufactured for a decade.
The Ural bomber was the initial aircraft design program/competition to develop a long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe, created and led by General Walther Wever in the early 1930s. Wever died in an air crash on June 3, 1936, and his successor Albert Kesselring continued the project until he left office. One of the Dornier Do 19 prototypes in flight.
Arado Ar 66, trainer + night ground attack. Arado Ar 234 Blitz ('Lightning'), bomber + night-fighter (jet-engined) Blohm & Voss Ha 140, torpedo bomber floatplane (prototype) Blohm & Voss BV 237, dive bomber, ground attack (project) Dornier Do 11, (Do F) medium bomber, 1931. Dornier Do 13, medium bomber, 1933.
27 August 1939. The Heinkel He 178 was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel. It was the world's first aircraft to fly using the thrust from a turbojet engine. The He 178 was developed to test the jet propulsion concept devised by the German engineer Hans von Ohain during the mid-1930s.
The Emergency Fighter Program (‹See Tfd› German: Jägernotprogramm) was the program that resulted from a decision taken on July 3, 1944 by the Luftwaffe regarding the German aircraft manufacturing companies during the last year of the Third Reich. This project was one of the products of the latter part of 1944, when the Luftwaffe High ...