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Focke Wulf Jet Fighters (Hardcover)
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Focke Wulf Jet Fighters (Hardcover)
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The biggest success of the Focke Wulf company during the Second
World War was the choice of a radial engine for the Fw 190 fighter,
in this way avoiding to compete against Messerschmitt for the in
line engines. The decision of the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe to
assign the few turbojets available to the Messerschmitt and Arado
firms and the discovery of the terrible aerodynamic effect known as
compressibility buffeting by mid-1942, made the life of fighter
designers of the time very interesting. The Kurt Tank team proposed
to install a centrifugal turbojet of his design in the nose of an
Fw 190 A/3 with the intention of replacing it with a Jumo 004 B
when available in 1943. Several designs followed that were able to
use all turbojets, turboprops, ramjets and rocket engines, either
projected or at their disposal. They constitute the documental
foundation of this book. After failing in the TL Jagdfleugzeug
contests in March 1943, Volksflugzeug in September 1944 and
Hochleitungs Nachtjager in January 1945, Focke Wulf could finally
overcome its competitors with the great Jagernotprogramm design Ta
183. Although it was too late to intervene in the Second World War,
it served as inspiration for numerous designs of other countries
during the first years of the Cold War.
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