Alternative German Fighters: Me-209, Me-309, He-100, etc.

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Except the fact that Britain was developing Delta-Wing aircraft before the end of the war, so the Vulcan wouldn't have been influenced by German design...
 
Correct, I think the Vulcan was designed in 44 or 45.
The A10 was probably entirely indepedent as well, but you never know
 
well, the germans had crazy designs for just about every plane going, chances are there's a german plane that looks like any modern plane, that doesn't automatically mean they copied the design..........
 
Of course, but in one case didn't some Northrop designers visit a Horten in a museum whilst designing the B2?
 
plan_D said:
Except the fact that Britain was developing Delta-Wing aircraft before the end of the war, so the Vulcan wouldn't have been influenced by German design...
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The wing of the HP Victor was based on the work of Kosin and Lehmann who had done at least 3 versions of the crescent wing for the Ar 234.
 
The FMA IA 37 does look lie a space rocket plane
Heres some more

http://www.luft46.com/luftart.html


Skip Talbot's Messerschmitt Me P.1110 "Ente" single seat fighter


Marek Rys's EMW A-6


http://davidszondy.com/future/Thunderbirds/thunderbird1.htm
http://davidszondy.com/future/Flight/safeplane.htm <--Weird, interesting site


An Arado TEW 16-43/13 barely escapes a mid-air collision with a Davis Manta* fighter, while climbing vertically.
*The Manta was an American project for a long-range high-performance fighter, powered by a simple 1150 hp Allison engine driving a contra rotating prop. The patented Davis airfoil used on the Manta's wings enabled it to have an endurance of ten hours, making it an ideal escort fighter for bomber formations. The Manta project was canceled in 1943 under mysterious circumstances...


Davis Manta Fighter
http://home.wanadoo.nl/r.j.o/skyraider/aircraft1.htm
The Davis Manta Fighter was an American fighter design by David R. Davis of the Manta Aircraft Corporation, LA. It was supposed to act as a long-range bomber escort. Its sophisticated aerodynamics should've given it incredible performance. The design didn't pass beyond a full-scale mockup, built in 1942.


Daniel Uhr's Messerschmitt Me P.1110/I

Another modern looking design
 
Nice infos here.
Just two things to add:
The Horton Parabola wasn´t the Horten VI but a 1938 derivate of the Ho-III program (see Horten, flying wing, 5th ed. (Graz 1993), page 66f.), which never flew.
The Horton VI was a high performance glider, based on the Ho-IV with even more aspect ratio, wingspan and gliding abilities (1:45 compared to 1:36 of the Ho-IV), making it the best glider of it´s time and the next decades, too.
(see Horten, as above, page 109.)
It should be noted also that Northrop got his contract for his first flying wing just a week after the Times published a picture of the Ho-III (DG-10-125) flying and the title: "German flying wing over Berlin".
There truly was kind of cross influence from both sides, which allowed support for these risky designs.
 
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