4 engine german bombers , did they have any in service ? (3 Viewers)

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No-ones mentioned the Junkers Ju 287...the V1 had four Jumo 004s, production version planned to have 6 BMW 003s. (at least one V2 was actually built in Russia after the war)

The Ju 287 was only intended as a medium bomber given its size and bombload. The Ju 287 V2 was actually not completed in the USSR after WW2; if you have read Horst Lommel's 2004 book from Schiffer Publishing about the Junkers Ju 287, the V2 was nearing completion in late 1944, but was eventually moved to the edge of a forest at Brandis along with Ju 287 V1, and both V1 and V2 were finally blown up by the Germans near the end of the war to avoid capture by Allied forces. Some remnants of the Ju 287 V2 were, however, used in construction of the EF 131 bomber prototype after WW2, namely the wing sections, which could explain why some older publications on Nazi jet aviation (e.g. Hitchcock's 1974 Monogram publication on the Ju 287) confused the EF 131 with the Ju 287 V2 when claiming that V2 was completed and flown in the USSR after the war, because the EF 131 had six engines like the second Ju 287 prototype and V2 was originally intended to have four jets under the wings and two jets on the forward fuselage before Junkers later decided to have the Ju 287 V2 feature turbojets mounted in triple packs under the wings, as would be conceived for the third Ju 287 prototype, planned Ju 287A-1 production version, and EF 131.
 
I don't believe that any Luftwaffe multi engined bomber flew anywhere near New York but then I believe that man did land on the moon and that the Pentagon was,tragically,hit by an airliner.
Steve
I don't believe that any Luftwaffe multi engined bomber flew anywhere near New York but then I believe that man did land on the moon and that the Pentagon was,tragically,hit by an airliner.
Steve
The Bv 238 was only intended for ocean reconnaissance, not strategic bombing, even though Blohm und Voss did propose a landplane bomber version of the Bv 238 as the Bv 250 (see http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww2/bv250/bv250-1.gif). The plane that some sources claimed flew within 12 miles of New York City was the Junkers Ju 390. However, no conclusive evidence emerged to validate that claim.
 
The Ju 390 was a 6 engine development of the 4 engine Ju 290 transport aircraft.
This is how Hitler or other top Nazis gets to South America.

With the right trade winds (see below), a lightened aircraft and some additional fuel the 10,000 km flight Berlin to Sao Paulo is doable.

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The amount of fuel needed for the Ju390 to make a trans-Atlantic flight would exeed it's max. take off weight.

The only way top German officials were going to sneak off to South America, was by U-Boat and one did (U-977) and most likely U-3523, although it was later sunk near the Netherlands.
 
The amount of fuel needed for the Ju390 to make a trans-Atlantic flight would exeed it's max. take off weight.
Wikipedia has the range as close to what we need, Junkers Ju 390 - Wikipedia

Combat range: 9,704 km (6,030 mi, 5,240 nmi) (reconnaissance mission)

We need sufficient fuel and cooperative winds to push the plane another 300 km. If a 3% increase in travel distance requires so much fuel as to exceed max take off weight, how did the LW expect to to reach America with bombs and return?
 
how did the LW expect to to reach America with bombs and return?
The idea was worked on for years and the Amerika Bomber program produced several candidates (including a design by the Horton brothers) but nothing ever came of it.

The most effective design the Germans had, was the A9/A10 missile of the Aggregat family (of which the A2 aka V-2 was one) and could have wreacked havoc on the east coast of the U.S. far better than any bomber.
 

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