Re: Fw Triebflugel page is Up!

On Apr 16, 10:11�am, Dan <B...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Ken S. Tucker wrote:
On Apr 15, 7:21 pm, Dan <B...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Rob Arndt wrote:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/FOCKE1.htm
Rob
   "This tail-sitting coleopter was ideal for point defense operations?"
By what stretch of the imagination? It never went into operation so that
statement is false. It might have been, but never was.

Saw a TV show about this,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-13_Vertijet
pilot said it was hell to land.

The Coleopter was a dumb design. If it had
two wings it could have landed conventionally,
even dead stick. The Take-off was easy the
landing would be a scream.
Ken

    There was a propeller tail sitter (Pogo?) that was apparently worse
to land. These 2 aircraft, which did OK in normal flight, proved the
Nazi coleopter idea was impractical.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired- Hide quoted text -

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Impractical? Yes.

But the tail-sitter concept and coleopter ideas were widely copied
postwar by the US, USSR, and France which all built demonstrators.

You might want to ignore the coleopter part and realize that the
German late-war VTO/VTOL designs were of extreme interest to the
world. It is still relevent today due to airfield vunerability. No
conventional jet can hide in urban or rural areas whereas any VTOL can
operate practically anwhere.... in a street downtown, a forest, on top
of a mountain, from practically any non-carrier vessel at sea, etc...

What counts here is the aviation concept more than the design.

No matter how impractical the Triebflugel would have been, it still is
an intriguing a/c and imagine what it would have looked like in
combat. I would have given anything to see the look on the bomber
gunners' faces when the Triebflugel attacked. Imagine a flaming halo
coming straight for you. I bet the first gunners would have been so
focused on the fire halo that they would have paused as the Luftwaffe
pilot opened up.

But we will never know...

Rob

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