24.10.2010, 20:56
Murph Wrote:Except in Il2 world with it's special physics, the TA 183 couldn't have flown. Post war tests on the airframe proved that the tail would come off, among other problems.
It could have flown, just not at such high speeds, and that tail design wasn't the only one they were using, they had a more conventional variant aswell as a rather completely shapely redisigned Ta-183 that was longer and looked more like the F-86 or MiG-15/17 to some degree.
http://www.luft46.com/fw/ta183-ii.html