Germany fighter picture, enjoy

[FW-190 Pilot]

http://www.luft46.com/rmart/rm162ty.jpg
http://www.luft46.com/roart/rotrb-1.jpg
http://www.luft46.com/aoart/ao132-1.jpg
http://www.luft46.com/gmart/gmjga-4.jpg
http://www.luft46.com/duart/dup60a.jpg
http://www.luft46.com/vaart/mz197-4.jpg
http://www.luft46.com/vaart/stent-1.jpg

and this is my favourite
http://www.luft46.com/duart/duvtol.jpg
enjoy, the website itself have plenty of germany planes

[FW-190 Pilot]

new waves of german aircraft
enjoy
this one can actually take a truck, very big aircraft :shock: (i know americans can have such aircraft now too, but this is world war 2!)

http://www.dslnorthwest.net/~astarr/ww2/me-323-commandtruck-lg.jpg

this is the FW-190 plane with prototype 37mm cannon to destroy tanks
online.de/home/luftarchiv/waffen/mk213.jpg
and this is the bomb


http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/FGww2APcarts2e.jpg
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=70498

[WhiskyAlpha]

Hi,
it's a Messerschmidt 323. Constructed as a real Glider, it was able to carry more weight as it's own. But caused by lack of airplanes to get it airborne, it was decided to mount 6 engines - and of course, netweight changed! Have You ever heard about the Gotha and Arado transportplanes?
Servus

[Sturmtruppen]

:shock: Oh my god!,this photos are brilliants!,thanks for them! :shock:

[WildBoar]

Unfortunately those planes were very unweildy and a lot of them were shot down making their way to North Africa. there is gun camera footage I believe of them being shot down over the Med.

[Dani]

http://img39.echo.cx/img39/8713/lrg13551wz.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Me 323 again

[Dani]

Me P.1101 - only one prototype built:

http://img39.echo.cx/img39/5018/lrg01063an.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[IRONMAN]

Unfortunately those planes were very unweildy and a lot of them were shot down making their way to North Africa.

Unfortunately?

[pdf27]

Problem with most of those pictures is the engines. German WW2 jet engines were frankly rubbish, and had naff-all development potential.

Best engine thrusts
Mid-1943: German 1,600 pounds, UK/US 1,400 pounds
early-1944: German 1,600 pounds, UK/US 1,700 pounds
mid-1944: German 1,800 pounds, UK/US 2,000 pounds
end-1944: German 1,840 pounds, UK/US 3,400 pounds
early-1945: German 1,840 pounds, UK/US 4,000 pounds.
late-1945 German 2,850 pounds, UK/US 5,200 pounds

The figure for late-1945 assumes that the Germans got the HeS-011 engine to work (which was planned to power most of the jets to be found at Luft'46). That would probably never have happened - the Russians tried to make it work after the war and failed completely, despite having better access to strategic metals, better mettallurgical technology, and much more time. That is incidentally why the MiG-15 and the like were powered by license produced/pirated (not sure on the exact terms of the license) RR Nene and Tay turbojets - the Russians really hadn't got a lot of jet experience, and the German jets they captured were worthless. As an example, the jet engines used by the Me-262 used mild steel and aluminium for the turbine blades (only giving a life of ten hours or so even with active cooling) and only had a pressure ratio of 3:1. This severely limits their power to weight ratio, fuel efficiency and peak speed. To reach the higher pressure ratios required for better efficiency they needed better metallurgy and design, neither of which they had.
The German engines had a lifespan of 5-10 hours. Even with a lot of work the Russians couldn't get this much above 50 hours - at a time when US/UK engines (pretty much the same thing at the time) were doing around 500 hours, and had reached nearly 5,000 hours by 1950.