WOW292 Focke Wulf Flitzer Luft 1946 Project
WOW292 Focke Wulf Flitzer Luft 1946 Project
WOW292 Focke Wulf Flitzer Luft 1946 Project
WOW292 Focke Wulf Flitzer Luft 1946 Project

WOW292 Focke Wulf Flitzer Luft 1946 Project

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The Focke-Wulf Project VII Flitzer (“streaker” or “dasher”) was a jet fighter under development in Germany towards the end of World War II and entered service in early 1946.

The design began as Focke-Wulf Project V which had a central fuselage and two booms carrying the rear control surfaces, having great similarity with the de Havilland Vampire. Interestingly the first Vampire’s were delivered to the RAF in April 1945 at around the same time as the Luftwaffe first started trialing the Flitzer – who copied who is the question?! 

Project V had the air inlets still positioned on either side of the nose, just below the cockpit. The estimated horizontal speed was not satisfactory and in the next development the jet intakes were situated in the wing roots. Further improvements over Project V were a narrower fuselage and a changed pilot’s canopy. In order to improve the rate of climb, a Walter HWK 109-509 hypergolic liquid-propellant rocket was built in to give supplementary thrust. A complete mock-up was built and construction and assembly plans were finished, but the aircraft was not accepted by the Reich Air Ministry until 1946. Once teething problems had been resolved the Flitzer proved to be an admirable aircraft for its time and was well liked by its pilots for its forgiving nature.

Our second and last version Flitzer is in the markings of Adolf Galland one of the greatest aerial aces of all time.

Limited to 3 in number worldwide,

 

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