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After the surrender of Nazi Germany several of the secret or unfinished projects of German military aircraft gained wide publicity. Also certain postwar planes such as the Bell X-5, F-86 Sabre or the MiG-15 were deemed to have been based on the pioneering work of World War II German aircraft designers.
Model of Junkers EF 128, one of the last jet-powered projects before the fall of the Reich. The Emergency Fighter Program (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.
The Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt in Völkenrode, a top secret German aviation technology facility, with no airfield of its own; Eric "Winkle" Brown (1919-2016), the Royal Navy aviation officer who helped Watson obtain a number of aircraft; Siegfried Knemeyer, a World War II German aviation technology expert who worked for the USAF after the war
Conceptual design of Project Habakkuk aircraft carrier with 600-metre (1,969 ft) runway. Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
Hugh Cowin, "Blohm und Voss Projects of World War II", Part I, Air Pictorial, October 1963, pp. 313–314. Myhra, David (1998). Secret Aircraft Designs of the Third Reich .
Aphrodite was the World War II code name of a United States Army Air Forces operation to use worn out Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated PB4Y bombers as radio controlled flying bombs against bunkers and other hardened or reinforced enemy facilities. A parallel project by the United States Navy was codenamed Anvil. [2]
Data from Japanese Secret Projects: Experimental Aircraft of the IJA and IJN 1939–1945, [1] Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War [2] General characteristics. Crew: 2 pilot and radio operator; Length: 13.04 m (42 ft 9 in) Wingspan: 13.99 m (45 ft 11 in) Height: 4.23 m (13 ft 11 in) Wing area: 33.99 m 2 (365.9 sq ft) Empty weight: 6,015 kg ...
The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber) project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the United States (specifically New York City) from Germany, a round-trip distance of about 11,600 km (7,200 mi).