Junkers Ju88

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It is interesting but making things jettisonable for a 'quick get-away' often backfired. I imagine that the feature was rarely if ever used and yet simply equipping a plane to jettison a gun or whatever merely added weight and complexity to the design.
 
can you imagine with this big butt of a weapon how heavy it made the a/c. Incredibly slow would have made it a tempting target for Soviet AAA and that was considered as it was already proven the 3m Mk 103 with tungsten ammo could blow the crap out of about any Soviet tank plus more rounds per minute than a slow revamped 7.5cm gun

Erich ~
 
That was for water-landings. If the Stuka had to ditch, the landing gear would hit first causing the aircraft to flip over on its back and that's not a good thing for a flight crew.
 
Well more specifically after the man who developped the airships.
 
Yeah, it was the Ju-88 P series that tried 75mm, 37mm and 50mm cannon in a ventral pack... - It's as Lanc Erich say, they were very heavy and unweildy, explosive bolts were fitted in case of fighter attack or flak taking-out an engine...only good for 244 mph, but they were used in limited no.'s, with a degree of success by Panzerjager-Staffel 92, firing 2 rounds per pass;- first from a 1000 ft in a glide-dive, then at 250 ft, quite accurately, but they had a slow rate of fire and the inability to evade, rendered them just another 'passing phase' in the tank battles...
 
the piggy back bomb operated with the pilot above in the smaller Bf 109 of Fw 190, so all three engines were running to create the needed lift.

E ~
 
No, you needed the power of all three engines to get off the ground. Plus, if you try and start the engine on the ground and it won't, you can get out and fix it. Good luck with that stunt in mid-air.
 
In light of the V-Weapons, IMO they were a waste of aircraft...- Not unlike the B-17's they tried using as Flying-bombs, although those ones were 'war-weary', with 20,000 lbs of Torpex packed-in and remotely-guided to approximate target-areas, Operation Aphrodite didn't really succeed either...their two-man crews had to bale-out over the Channel...
 
you can't say the V weapons were a waste of aircraft, firstly becuase they weren't really aircraft, secondly becuase look at the technology involved, especily the V2, it would take to long to but down all the technology involved but they were an amazing weapon..................
 
you can't say the V weapons were a waste of aircraft, firstly becuase they weren't really aircraft, secondly becuase look at the technology involved, especily the V2, it would take to long to but down all the technology involved but they were an amazing weapon..................
 
What I mean't Lanc, was that in the light of the V-weapon programme, the Mistel programme was a waste of aircraft, and fuel....
 
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