17.02.2009, 12:29
Same here - it's also one of my favourite Luft '46 designs and I would also like to see it in the game someday. I have the Huma-Modell kit built and it really looks great.
This design was turned down and Kurt Tank came up with a new design which had little to do with the first one except for the ramjet and rocket propulsion concept (and didn't look half as good!). It was also rejected by the RLM. Realistically, I doubt it would have been much use. It was to have been a high speed intercepter which required rocket propulsion to take off and gain sufficient altitude and speed to start-up the ramjet engines at which point it would fly really fast and require a lot of skill from the pilot to make successful interceptions and shoot down enemy bombers (let's forget about fighters!) - think along the lines of the games BI-6. Once speed is lost, the engines would shut down and the aircraft would have to glide back to base
This design was turned down and Kurt Tank came up with a new design which had little to do with the first one except for the ramjet and rocket propulsion concept (and didn't look half as good!). It was also rejected by the RLM. Realistically, I doubt it would have been much use. It was to have been a high speed intercepter which required rocket propulsion to take off and gain sufficient altitude and speed to start-up the ramjet engines at which point it would fly really fast and require a lot of skill from the pilot to make successful interceptions and shoot down enemy bombers (let's forget about fighters!) - think along the lines of the games BI-6. Once speed is lost, the engines would shut down and the aircraft would have to glide back to base