This Luftwaffe Experimental looks cool...

[Lionheart]

Hey guys,

This thing looks pretty cool. I dont remember seeing it before in the Secret Weapons archives.

http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/axis/luft/fw/283.htm


Bill

[Pips]

Ugly looking thing isn't it? :)

[harleyman]

What a Mo Chine..........Looks like it could haul...........

But its got a bad case of the UGH.....:costumes:

[Lionheart]

Those engines must be very lightweight or the thing would flop back on its tail on the ground.

The engines have small holes in the forward intake 'bulkheads'. I didnt read on it, but it looks like some form of pulse jet, perhaps.


Bill

[simkid22]

I would not want to land that on grass. :isadizzy: I didn't think the Germans could make landing gears that were closer together than the Bf-109. :costumes:

[harleyman]

I just figured out what it looks like...A sand shark......... Might be a Pulse Jet.......Like the ,,Ahhh..I forget the name now..The germans used them to bomb Europe..not real suscessfully eighter......

http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/axis/luft/fw/283d.jpg

[GeorgeM]

I don't think it's ugly at all, in fact I rather like it. If someone does this for FSX it might actually tempt me to fly a jet! Peculiar enough for Piglet, perhaps?

[BananaBob]

Looks like an antiquated Viper from Battlestar Galactica, an early, early, model, LOL :ernae:

[Silver Fox]

http://www.luft46.com/fw/fwta283.html

Give it a delta wing and it is an early Viper. :)

[EMatheson]

hmmm... I kinda like it!

[kurt190]

Those engines must be very lightweight or the thing would flop back on its tail on the ground.

The engines have small holes in the forward intake 'bulkheads'. I didnt read on it, but it looks like some form of pulse jet, perhaps.


Bill


Ramjets Bill - light with few moving parts. A bugger to start though!!

kurt

[YQTFun]

Like the ,,Ahhh..I forget the name now..The germans used them to bomb Europe..not real suscessfully eighter......


I think you mean the V1

http://www.einsteins-emporium.com/technology/aviation/space/images/usm1d-st.jpg

[kimdahl]

Hi guys

If you can't wait till Piglet makes one (IF he does), this old FS2002 bird actually works quite well in FSX with only a few minor quirks:

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo110/kimdahl_2008/Ta-283_1.jpg

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo110/kimdahl_2008/Ta-283_2.jpg

It's got a modern cockpit instrumentation, but that can be changed if you like. And it has a rather nice VC considering its age. File name fw283.zip at Avsim.

Regards
Kim

[maguireted]

German Engineers of the Second World War were sometimes unbelievable in their ideas ...." .... uber alles" .... Anna

[Bjoern]

I kind of like the story.

But "Josef Schmidtlap"?
Come on, whatever happened to "Schmidt" or "Mayer" or "Bauer" or "Wilhelm" ?!?
;P

[BananaBob]

http://www.luft46.com/fw/fwta283.html

Give it a delta wing and it is an early Viper. :)

I can envision through evolution how one could come to this design from this early German jet. :ernae:
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/8194/vipermk2st8.jpg

[Lionheart]

I can envision through evolution how one could come to this design from this early German jet. :ernae:


Goodness Robert! That is one fine rendering of a Viper fighter.. I see the resemblance masssively.


Anna,

I totally agree. Some of the designs coming from Germany in both WWI and WWII were incredible, even for todays standards, they are still way ahead of their time.

I wish some German engineers would come over here to America and make us some Potatoe fuel refinery plants so the price of fuel would come down. (I can just imagine it now. Instead of smelling smog in Los Angeles early in the morning, one smells french fries.... :d ).



Bill

[Bjoern]

I wish some German engineers would come over here to America and make us some Potatoe fuel refinery plants so the price of fuel would come down.

Damn, I'm in the wrong engineering field. Well, I think I'll just build you a doomsday device instead! :costumes:

[Lionheart]

Damn, I'm in the wrong engineering field. Well, I think I'll just build you a doomsday device instead! :costumes:

LOLOL... :costumes:

nah.. We have plenty of those..

I was always so impressed that the Germans made their own fuel after we had taken down all their fuel refineries. Tigerkartroffelbenzine.... Makes more sense then giving a bunch of, well.. you know. :d



Thanks KimDahl on the heads up of the FS2002 model.

:ernae:


Bill

[BananaBob]

I have to bite my tongue on the "potato" spelling Bill, was going to call you Quayle, but I just can't be that cruel, LMAO :costumes:

[Bjoern]

I was always so impressed that the Germans made their own fuel after we had taken down all their fuel refineries. Tigerkartroffelbenzine.... Makes more sense then giving a bunch of, well.. you know. :d


Well, that hydration idea never came back after the war. What a shame, especially since we have a fair amount of coal here.


Nice to know: South Africa covers one third of its fuel demand with synthetic gas made from coal.

[cheezyflier]

I have to bite my tongue on the "potato" spelling Bill, was going to call you Quayle, but I just can't be that cruel, LMAO :costumes:

man, there's a guy who will go down in history as being the most vanilla you could possibly be

[Lionheart]

I have to bite my tongue on the "potato" spelling Bill, was going to call you Quayle, but I just can't be that cruel, LMAO :costumes:


Arrghh...

<-- smacks computer on the side of the box grumbling 'dang spellchecker'

If you think about it.. I spelled it right, or it would be pronounced 'po-tay-tew' instead of 'po-tay-toe'. :d