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AUTHOR: Myhra, D
FORMAT: 128pp 95 Bw 62 col Pb
This is the story of the world's first attempt at perfecting a true, tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) interceptor flying machine - Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau's proposed "Triebflugeljager", or thrust wing fighter project of 1944. The Triebflugeljager was not intended to be an air-superiority dog-fighter, but a bomber killer rising straight up from its hiding place in the forest or urban area to meet and attack Allied bombers head on. With its mission completed it would return to its hiding place on the forest floor and wait to arise again. The Triebflugeljager would have been a point-defence interceptor intended for the Luftwaffe's home defence squadrons and its most important virtue was that it would not need a runway. Highly unusual, then as well as today, the Triebflugeljager was an amazing prototype.
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