Hitlers stealth fighter

[makster]

If you have an interest in this period of aviation, I'd suggest getting hold of 'Wings of the Luftwaffe' by Eric 'Winkle' Brown.
He flew across Europe as the war ended and flew every type of German aircraft flying. This book is his appraisal of these aircraft. The pictures are a bit strange, seeing Lufwaffe aircraft with RAF roundels :shock:
His book 'Wings on my sleeve' is an excellent read too

I'm facinated by German WW2 aircraft. I nearly wet myself when I touched an ME262 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich a few years ago

Makster, im fascinated by this period of aviation too but have never gotten round to nerding out the best books/dvd's etc.

Would you be so kind to list your 'must see/read' favourites so that i can bulk buy and be amazed?

Most of my books are pilot autobiographies. If you're interested then I'm sure I could get a book lend scheme going
Drop me a pm mate

 

[Lysander]

Got a link?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/worl ... od#3132324

 

[dyna-ti]

If the nazis had won the space race

 

[makster]

If the nazis had won the space race

They kind of did!!

 

[FMJ]

If the nazis had won the space race

They kind of did!!

Indeed they did. All the US' engineers in the 50s and 60s were ex-pat Germans.

Gizmodo did a feature on the 2-29 last year. There's a link to 10 minutes of the Nat. Geo. documentary in it.

http://gizmodo.com/5305249/the-nazi-stealth-planes-that-could-have-dropped-a-nuclear-bomb-in-nyc

 

[mattbrown]

and nuclear, gotta thank them for helping with the atomic bomb

 

[velomaniac]

SMART plane

For me though it was that weird reconnaisance aircraft the Luftwaffe had, might have been an Arado. The cockpit/crew section was at one side of the centre of the wing with the engine tailboom on the other. looked ungainly and made of several bits of other planes bolted together but apparently worked fine :shock:

The Germans were generally very inovative during WWII but unfortunately were worse at equipment requisition than the current UK armed forces. Too many competing designs and interest groups.

Even the army, navy and airforce competed with each other as opposed to cooperating. The para's were part of the airforce with some unique bits of kit and did not often cooperate fully with the Wermacht :roll:

We'd have been stuffed if they ever worked together in an integrated manner with that teutonic efficiency of theirs :roll: