Dragonfly The Luftwaffe’s Experimental Triebflugeljager Project

Book Code:  SC0058

Dragonfly The Luftwaffe’s Experimental Triebflugeljager Project

 

This is the story of the world’s first attempt at perfecting a true, tail-sitting vertical take off and landing (VTOL) interceptor flying machine – Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau’s proposed Triebflugeljager or thrust wing fighter project of 1944. The Triebflügeljäger was not intended to be an air-superiority dogfighter, but a bomber killer rising straight up from its hiding place in the forest or urban area to meet and attack Allied bombers head on. With its mission completed it would return to its hiding place on the forest floor and wait to arise again. The Triebflügeljäger would have been a point-defense interceptor intended for the Luftwaffe home defense squadrons and its most important virtue was that it would not need a runway.

David Myhra

Softcover large format 120pp over 240 b/w and colour photographs, line drawings