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Flitzer
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Wartime model of the Project VI design
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Role
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Fighter
Type of aircraft
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Manufacturer
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Focke-Wulf
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Status
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Unfinished project
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Number built
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One mockup built and a few prototype sub-assemblies completed
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The
Focke-Wulf
Flitzer
("streaker" or "dasher", sometimes incorrectly translated as "madcap") was a jet
fighter
under development in
Germany
at the end of
World War II
.
Development
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The design, also called
Entwurf VI
, had a central
fuselage
and
two booms
carrying the
rear control surfaces
, having great similarity with the contemporary
de Havilland Vampire
.
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It also had the air inlets still positioned on either side of the nose, just below the
cockpit
.
[3]
The estimated horizontal speed was not satisfactory and
Flitzer
was revised whereby the jet intakes were situated in the wing roots. Further improvements included a narrower fuselage and a changed pilot's
canopy
. In order to improve the
rate of climb
, a
Walter HWK 109-509
hypergolic
liquid-propellant rocket was built in to give supplementary thrust. A complete mockup was built and all construction and assembly plans were finished, but the aircraft was not accepted by the
Reich Air Ministry
(
Reichsluftfahrtministerium
, RLM).
[4]
Although referred to as
Fw 272
in some sources, the
Flitzer
was never given an RLM designation, and the putative designation "Fw 272" is derived from drawing Nr. 272 for the
Flitzer
.
[5]
Specifications (design draft of 15 September 1944)
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Data from
[6]
General characteristics
- Crew:
one pilot
- Length:
10.55 m (34 ft 7 in)
- Wingspan:
8.00 m (26 ft 3 in)
- Height:
2.35 m (7 ft 8 in)
- Wing area:
17.0 m
2
(183 sq ft)
- Empty weight:
2,730 kg (6,018 lb)
- Gross weight:
4,350 kg (9,589 lb)
- Powerplant:
1 ×
Heinkel HeS 011
turbojet , 14.7 kN (3,306 lbf) thrust
- Powerplant:
1 ×
Walter HWK 109-509
rocket , 16.7 kN (3,750 lbf) thrust
Performance
- Maximum speed:
955 km/h (593 mph, 515 kn)
- Endurance:
1 hours 50 minutes
- Service ceiling:
13,000 m (42,500 ft)
- Rate of climb:
18.2 m/s (3,600 ft/min)
Armament
See also
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
References
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- ^
Focke-Wulf Project VII
Flitzer
- ^
Myhra, David (1998).
Secret Aircraft Designs of the Third Reich
. Atglen: Schiffer. pp. 141?42.
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Lens, K.; H. J. Nowarra (1964).
Die Deutschen Flugzeuge
. Munich: J F Lehmans Verlag.
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Nowarra, Heinz (1983).
Die deutsche Luftrustung 1933?1945
. Bonn: Bernard and Graefe. pp. Teil 2, p.117.
- ^
Dan Sharp, 2020.
Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe: Jet Fighters 1939-1945
, Mortons.
- ^
Schick, Walter; Meyer, Ingolf (1997). Luftwaffe secret projects : fighters 1939?1945. Hinckley, England: Midland Pub. pp. 159?161.
ISBN
1857800524
.
Bibliography
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- Masters, David (1982).
German Jet Genesis
. London: Jane's Publishing.
- Schick, Walter; Ingolf Meyer (1997).
Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Fighters 1939?1945
. Hinckley: Midland Publishing. pp. 143?44.
- Smith, J. R. (1973).
Focke-Wulf: An Aircraft Album
. London: Ian Allan.
- Smith, J. R.; A. Kay (1972).
German Aircraft of the Second World War
. London: Putnam.
- Wagner, Wolfgang (1980).
Kurt Tank: Konstruckteur und Test Pilot bei Focke-Wulf
. Munich: Bernard and Graefe.
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