The aircraft in this list include prototype versions of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and unfinished wartime experimental programmes. In the former, development can stretch back to the 1920s and in the latter the project must have started between 1939-1945.
Legitimacy of German projects
After the surrender of Nazi Germany several of the secret or unfinished projects of German military aircraft gained wide publicity. Also certain postwar planes such as the Bell X-5, F-86 Sabre or the MiG-15 were deemed to have been based on the pioneering work of World War II German aircraft designers. German aircraft manufacturers such as Henschel in Kassel had their archives destroyed in the course of the Allied bombing of the Third Reich at the end of World War II. Hence some of the late Henschel projects that were recreated later are based on documents found in other locations or on second-hand sources and not on the original Henschel technical drawings.
(Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH)
(Bachem-Werke GmbH)
- Bachem Ba 349 Natter
- Ba BP 20 - (Manned Flak Rocket) First versions of Ba 349, some unable to take off vertically, with fixed landing gear and solid nose for flight testing
(Bayerische Motoren-Werke GmbH)
(Daimler-Benz)
- Daimler-Benz Trägerflugzeug - Giant carrier aircraft designed to carry either the Schnellbomber or SO Flugzeug, project (dubbed Projekt A and B by Nowarra 1993)
- Daimler-Benz Schnellbomber - parasite jet bomber (designs with twin-tail and V-tail configurations) carried by Trägerflugzeug.
- Daimler-Benz SO Flugzeug - parasite manned missile carried by Trägerflugzeug. Possible suicide craft as escape downwards near target nearly impossible at speed.
(Dornier Werke GmbH)
(Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug)
- DFS 39 - Lippisch-designed tailless research aircraft
- DFS 40 - Lippisch-designed tail-less research aircraft
- DFS 194 - Rocket-powered research aircraft, forerunner of Me 163
- DFS 228 - Rocket-powered reconnaissance aircraft (2 prototypes)
- DFS 332 - twin-fuselage experimental aircraft
- DFS 346 Supersonic research aircraft (incomplete prototype only)
- DFS Bombensegler - "bomb-carrying glider"
- DFS Eber ("Wild Boar") - Armed ramming interceptor
(Gerhard Fieseler Werke GmbH)
(Flettner Flugzeugbau GmbH / Anton Flettner G.m.b.H.)
(Focke-Achgelis & Co. GmbH)
(Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH)
( Gothaer Waggonfabrik)
(Ernst Heinkel A.G.)
(Henschel Flugzeugwerke A.G.)
(Ulrich Hütter and Wolfgang Hütter)
(Junkers Flugzeug-Werke A.G.)
- Junkers Ju 85 parallel design of Ju 88; cancelled in favor of the Ju 88
- Junkers Ju 89 heavy bomber prototype, Ural bomber design candidate
- Junkers Ju 186 proposed four-engine high-altitude bomber
- Junkers Ju 187 projected dive bomber
- Junkers Ju 268 unmanned parasite fighter
- Junkers Ju 286 proposed six-engine high-altitude bomber
- Junkers Ju 287 projected dive bomber
- Junkers Ju 287 Heavy bomber (jet-engined) (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 288 Bomber B program favored contender (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 290 Long-range bomber (prototype)
- Junkers Ju 322 Mammut transport glider (prototype), 1941
- Junkers Ju 390 six engined Amerikabomber design competitor, derivative of the Ju 290 (two airworthy prototypes)
- Junkers Ju 488 proposed four-engine strategic bomber
- Junkers EFo 8 (Entwicklung Flugzeug)
- Junkers EFo 9 Hubjäger (German: "lift-fighter")
- Junkers High speed jet aircraft designed for record breaking speed
- Junkers EFo 11 Hubjäger (German: "lift-fighter")
- Junkers EFo 12
- Junkers EFo 15
- Junkers EFo 17
- Junkers EFo 18
- Junkers EFo 19
- Junkers EF 043
- Junkers EF 050 VTOL design study
- Junkers EF 061 pressurized high-altitude bomber prototype
- Junkers EF 072 early design for EF 077
- Junkers EF 073 Medium bomber developed into Ju 288
- Junkers EF 074 design designation of Ju 288
- Junkers EF 077 Airliner project developed into Ju 252
- Junkers EF 094 design designation of Ju 322
- Junkers EF 100 long-range reconnaissance/bomber developed from the EF 53
- Junkers EF 101 Mistel carrier design
- Junkers EF 109 twin-boom ground attack aircraft
- Junkers EF 110 ground attack aircraft
- Junkers EF 111 ground attack aircraft
- Junkers EF 112 twin-boom ground attack aircraft
- Junkers EF 115 projected bomber
- Junkers EF 116 projected W-wing jet bomber
- Junkers EF 122 four-engine development of Ju 287
- Junkers EF 125 two-engine development of Ju 287, precursor of EF 140
- Junkers EF 126 Lilli experimental pulsejet fighter, Miniaturjägerprogramm design candidate
- Junkers EF 127 Walli rocket-powered fighter, Emergency Fighter Program design candidate
- Junkers EF 128 tailless, swept-wing jet interceptor, Emergency Fighter Program design candidate
- Junkers EF 130 projected flying-wing bomber
- Junkers EF 131 six-engine development of Ju 287, test flown postwar in the Soviet Union
- Junkers EF 132 planned jet bomber
- Junkers EF 140 jet reconnaissance/bomber, completed postwar in the Soviet Union
- Junkers EF 150 jet bomber, Russian designed and completed postwar in the Soviet Union
- Junkers EF with BMW 801
- Junkers EF 2x Jumo 004
Stöckel
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
- Rys, Marek German Air Projects 1935-1945 vol.3 (Bombers). Mushroom model publications. 2007.
- Witkowski, Ryszard "Rotorcraft of the Third Reich". Mushroom Model. 2007. Redbourn, UK.
- Nowarra, Heinz J.. Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933-1945 - Vol.1 - Flugzeugtypen AEG-Dornier. Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1993. Koblenz. (Gesamtwek), (Band 1)
- Nowarra, Heinz J.. Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933-1945 - Vol.2 - Flugzeugtypen Erla-Heinkel. Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1993. Koblenz. (Gesamtwek), (Band 2)
- Nowarra, Heinz J.. Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933-1945 - Vol.3 - Flugzeugtypen Henschel-Messerschmitt. Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1993. Koblenz. (Gesamtwek), (Band 3)
- Nowarra, Heinz J.. Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933-1945 Vol.4 â Flugzeugtypen MIAG-Zeppelin. Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1993. Koblenz. (Gesamtwek), (Band 4)
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