The Ta 153 was envisioned as the successor to the Fw 190 and was a completely new design. Yet it looks just like a Dora fuselage with the Ta 152C wing.
To not delay fighter production for too much Kurt Tank proposed to use a more derivative design which would become the Ta 152.
It used large parts of the Fw 190 for ease of construction and was essentially a "stretched" 190.
Now I wonder what the Ta 153 was. The wing, is an enlarged 190 wing lengthened at the wing roots and the internal structure should be too similar to be called a new design (?).
With the fuselage looking identical to the 190's which internal features/differences did warrant to call it as completely new a design? I would expect it to look completely different.
What benefits would this approach have offered compared to improved D-models and Ta 152s?
To not delay fighter production for too much Kurt Tank proposed to use a more derivative design which would become the Ta 152.
It used large parts of the Fw 190 for ease of construction and was essentially a "stretched" 190.
Now I wonder what the Ta 153 was. The wing, is an enlarged 190 wing lengthened at the wing roots and the internal structure should be too similar to be called a new design (?).
With the fuselage looking identical to the 190's which internal features/differences did warrant to call it as completely new a design? I would expect it to look completely different.
What benefits would this approach have offered compared to improved D-models and Ta 152s?