nazi FSW bomber aircraft

Junkers Ju 287

"One of the strangest Luftwaffe aircraft to ever claw it's way into the air was the Junkers Ju 287. Begun in early 1943, the Ju 287 incorporated many advanced aerodynamic concepts, the most striking being the swept forward wings. This design feature was deemed radical enough to warrent the construction of a testbed aircraft, pictured above. This testbed flew on August 16, 1944."

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$tranger :

avatar : A North-Korean dictator.
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Last aircraft thread done : A former nazi bomber with a cool emoticon.

Are you ok $tranger ?

Originally posted by ultra_phoenix
$tranger :

avatar : A North-Korean dictator.
Mood : Drunk.
Last aircraft thread done : A former nazi bomber with a cool emoticon.

Are you ok $tranger ?

LOL!, thats where the su-47 and the bird of prey come from anyway..

May be, but I'm still worry for you. Having such avatar is not normal.

You're tired. Take a good break.

Although this thread may be 19 years old, in case anyone's aware, the first and second prototypes of the Junkers Ju 287 (also known by the cover designations Ju 288 V201 and V202) were merely technology demonstrators to test the flight behavior of the production Ju 287, which would have been a Ju 388 with forward swept wings and had six turbojets housed in two clover leaf-shaped underwing pods (three per pod). The Ju 287 V1 was built to test the aerodynamic properties of the FSW, while the Ju 287 V2 would have tested the FSW in high-speed flight, and the prototypes Ju 287 V3 to V6 were to represent the design of the production Ju 287. Only the first Ju 287 flew, and the second Ju 287 was preparing to have its engines installed when in late September 1944 the RLM ordered a stop to all jet bomber development to free up money and resources for Nazi Germany's jet fighter programs, including the Heinkel He 162 and plans for an Me 262 successor that led to the design of the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 and Messerschmitt P.1101. The Ju 287 V1 and V2 were left in stationary position at a Luftwaffe test center in Brandis, hidden with tree saplings, and retreating German personnel destroyed both aircraft to prevent them from falling into Allied hands, but the US Army overran Brandis on April 16, 1945 and saw the wreckage of the two aircraft (the forward swept wings were undamaged judging from one of the above-mentioned photos), and a few days later, American GIs captured the Junkers factory in Dessau.

A few months after the Nazi surrender, in July 1945, the Soviets took over Dessau and many veteran Junkers engineers were taken into Soviet custody, including Brunolf Baade. Development of a Ju 287 variant that was conceived shortly before war's end, the EF 131, was resumed under Soviet orders in late 1945 and by 1946 the first of three EF 131 prototypes on order was completed and carried out taxi tests in Dessau before being disassembled and hauled to the Soviet aircraft test site in Ramenskoye in September of that year along with a few examples of the Junkers EF 126 pulsejet-powered ground attack aircraft. The EF 131 took to the skies on May 23, 1947, and it was powered by six Jumo 004Bs housed in the same engine arrangement proposed for the production Ju 287. Flight tests of the EF 131 continued until 1948, when development of the aircraft was canceled as Baade himself turned his attention to the EF 140 twin-jet derivative of the EF 131 (of course, the EF 140 proved a dead-end like the EF 131, given that the Soviet Union already was developing home-grown jet bombers like the Tupolev Tu-12, Ilyushin Il-28, and Tupolev '82' [aka Tu-22]).

If anyone is interesting in learning more about the history of design, development, and flight testing of the Ju 287 and its derivatives, the following books can be consulted for more info:
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