Vahe Demirjian
Banned
There's a short book available for purchase at Amazon.com titled German Air Projects 1933-1945, Volume 3: Bombers.
This book contains all German bomber designs of the Nazi era that either remained paper projects or reached the prototype stage but didn't go into production. Ironically, this book omits the Arado E.560 and the Daimler Benz flying aircraft carriers, even though it does include all the Nazi flying wing bomber projects as well as the Junkers EF 132 backswept wing derivative of the Ju 287 and EF 131. However, Marek Rys, the author, errs in: (1) lumping the Heinkel He 277 with the He 177B and referring to the He 277 and He 177B as He 277B-6 and He 277B-5 despite the fact that the He 177B and He 277 were different aircraft, the He 177B designation being allocated much later than He 277 (Rys also doesn't mention that the He 177B was originally designated He 177A-8 and He 177A-10); and (2) rehashing misinformation from William Green's book Warplanes of the Second World War: Volume 10 about the Ju 287 V2 and V3 even while correctly noting that the EF 131 was a different plane than the second and third Ju 287 prototypes*, and rehashing the false claim that the first Ju 287 prototype was damaged in the Allied air raid on Rechlin (in actuality, the Ju 287 V1 was moved back to Brandis from Rechlin in late 1944, and later blown up by the Germans with explosives along with V2 to avoid capture by Allied forces).
*Marek Rys's drawing of the Ju 287A-1 is accurate, even though it is partially erroneously labelled Ju 287 V3 considering that V3 lacked armament unlike the production Ju 287.
This book contains all German bomber designs of the Nazi era that either remained paper projects or reached the prototype stage but didn't go into production. Ironically, this book omits the Arado E.560 and the Daimler Benz flying aircraft carriers, even though it does include all the Nazi flying wing bomber projects as well as the Junkers EF 132 backswept wing derivative of the Ju 287 and EF 131. However, Marek Rys, the author, errs in: (1) lumping the Heinkel He 277 with the He 177B and referring to the He 277 and He 177B as He 277B-6 and He 277B-5 despite the fact that the He 177B and He 277 were different aircraft, the He 177B designation being allocated much later than He 277 (Rys also doesn't mention that the He 177B was originally designated He 177A-8 and He 177A-10); and (2) rehashing misinformation from William Green's book Warplanes of the Second World War: Volume 10 about the Ju 287 V2 and V3 even while correctly noting that the EF 131 was a different plane than the second and third Ju 287 prototypes*, and rehashing the false claim that the first Ju 287 prototype was damaged in the Allied air raid on Rechlin (in actuality, the Ju 287 V1 was moved back to Brandis from Rechlin in late 1944, and later blown up by the Germans with explosives along with V2 to avoid capture by Allied forces).
*Marek Rys's drawing of the Ju 287A-1 is accurate, even though it is partially erroneously labelled Ju 287 V3 considering that V3 lacked armament unlike the production Ju 287.
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