B-17engineer
Colonel
Good point Marcel. Wasn't a good plane at ALL
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On landing, the rocket fuel often caused an explosion that usually destroyed the aircraft. time
Yeah, i think it was just to far ahead of its time... The wing design really was amazing. Lippish delta i believe its called and wasn't that same design used on the F4D Skyray? One amazing thing i think is that it could climb to combat altitude in 2 minutes. Even if the plane wasn't very effective, thats still pretty darn good.
German work on delta wing planforms, directed by Dr. Alexander Lippisch, led to a US Navy proposal in 1947 for a short-range carrier-based interceptor fighter using a similar layout. Project studies were initiated by the Douglas design team led by Ed Heinemann with the object of producing a fighter optimized for a high rate of climb and capable of intercepting enemy aircraft before they reached their targets. These studies led to a design which, rather than being a pure delta, was a tailless aircraft with a sweptback wing of extremely low aspect ratio, following Dr. Lippisch's own evolution of this layout for the Messerschmitt Me-163 target-defence interceptor.
The Ilyushin Il-2 wasn't a bad plane......