[AERIAL STURGEON]

I have that in my "Worlds worst aircraft" by Jim Winchester. It has lots of weird planes

I have the same book. I'd take anything that you read in it with a grain of salt because the author was pretty clueless about a number of things. One glaring example that springs to mind is the Brewster Buffalo. The author cites its performance at Midway as the F2A-3 as justification for it being "bad," yet completely ignores its amazing success (as the F2A-1/B-239) on the Finnish front. The most successful single airframe in aviation history was a Buffalo flown by two pilots.

As for the Bv-141, it certainly wasn't a bad aircraft. Blohm und Voss had brilliant engineers, and the 141 was one of their most brilliant projects. According to everyone that actually flew it, it was a dream to fly. Its off center design made it, from a piloting standpoint, virtually aerodynamically perfect. The pilot really had very little to worry about when it came to yaw and trim, and visibility from it was unmatched.

The only reason that it wasn't produced was because the RLM and Goring didn't like the way it looked.


But I would like to see it in the sim. Unlike the Lerche, it actually flew.