Subject:
|
Re: Hs132 Jet Divebomber Resource
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.build.military
|
Date:
|
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:00:20 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1863 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.build.military, Joel Jacobsen writes:
> In lugnet.build.military, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> >
> > Gary and all, sorry to redirect this thread a bit, but I thought I
> > should share:
> >
> > In lugnet.build.military, Gary Thomas writes:
> > > In lugnet.build.military, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > > > Hmmm...I'll have to take a look at it and see about building my own.
> > > > Actually, the Luftwaffe projects on my drawing board are the He162 and
> > > > the Hs132A--the jet divebomber where the pilot lay prone (prototypes
> > > > only, naturally).
> > >
> > > I love that plane (the Hs 132) - can't wait to see it.
> >
> > The glazed nose is still an issue I haven't gotten around--all
> > of my solutions just screw with the proportions a little too much.
> >
> > But I have found some excellent CGI renders of the Hs132; you
> > might want to look at this. For German X-planes, there seems
> > to be a large following of hobbyists devoted to rendering them
> > photorealistically:
> >
> > http://visi.net/~djohnson/mmart/mm132.html
> >
> > It's beautiful, really.
> >
> > best
> >
> > LFB
>
> Okay...
>
> I looked at that site..
>
> I thought I knew of a lot of the X-planes Germany was working on..
>
> I GOTTA ask... the Germans didn't have ALL of those things in the works...??
> Some of those have to be someone's fictional ideas... right? (looks hopeful)
As far as I know, none of those planes were fictional, though most were just
paper proposals. The sawblade Fw-500 thing seems pretty far-fetched though.
- Gary
> I mean.. if they really did think up all that stuff... that's scary... if
> even 1 or 2 of those could have gotten into production before '44... wow.
>
> Things could have turned out rather differently.
>
> Glad they didn't but.. wow... makes you think...
>
> I can definitely see German influence in a LOT of post-war aircraft styles
> where I didn't necessarily see it before, now....
> Thanks for sharing, Lindsay.
>
>
> JJ
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Hs132 Jet Divebomber Resource
|
| (...) Well.. that was one of them.. the other that seemed far-fetched to me was this one: (URL) then... I looked again at it's neighbor on that page: (URL) me amazed. This is far beyond anything I've ever read about. Guess I wasn't reading in the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.military)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Hs132 Jet Divebomber Resource
|
| (...) Okay... I looked at that site.. I thought I knew of a lot of the X-planes Germany was working on.. I GOTTA ask... the Germans didn't have ALL of those things in the works...?? Some of those have to be someone's fictional ideas... right? (looks (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.military)
|
21 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
