Focke-Wulf Ta 183

The Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein (also Focke-Wulf fighter project VI ) was a German fighter aircraft project with jet drive from the Second World War.

It is a einstrahliges, single-seat aircraft, whose wings were swept back, which had a pressurized cabin and was armed with cannons. It was equipped with a retractable nose gear wheel.

Ta 183 Design I and II

The design concept was based on studies by Hans Multhopp to Hunter Project VI of Focke -Wulf ( name by Nowarra, in Wagner, the term PV is used ) from the years 1942-1943, which were not realized. To better distinguish the different designs, this design was later often referred to as Ta 183 Design I. Already in mid-1944 was announced a development order for a 1000 km / h fast fighter. As part of the hunters emergency program in the fall of 1944, the design was Ta 183 Design II at the suggestion of Kurt Tank on December 19, 1944 presented in a comparative discussion in the DVL and accepted in February 1945.

Specifications

Ta 183 Design III

Compared with the original design, which provided for a T-tail and the installation of armament in the bow below the engine inlet, showed the final draft Ta 183 Design III is a conventional tail, a trunk with a further to the fuselage center gerückten cabin, redesigned wings and cannons above the engine inlet. In March 1945, 16 pre-production models were ordered. Since the desired He- S -011 jet engine was not yet available, the prototype should be V -0 to V-4 fitted with a Jumo 004B jet engine. The first flight was scheduled for May / June 1945. On 8 April 1945, the development offices were occupied by the Allies, work on the first pre-production model were not finished.

Other Designs

Some findings of this development work, including those of the Messerschmitt P.1101, about the benefits of swept wings were further used in the development of jet aircraft of the second generation as the MiG -15, Saab 29 Tunnan, the North American F -86, or by Kurt Tank 1947 developed in Argentina Pulqui II