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Messerschmitt P.1111
The Messerschmitt P.1111 was a jet fighter/interceptor project, designed by Messerschmitt for the ''Luftwaffe'' near the end of World War II. History The innovative design of the Me P.1111 was completed in January 1945, and was intended as an improvement to the Messerschmitt P.1110 ''Ente''.Heinz J. Nowarra: ''Die Deutsche Luftrüstung 1933–1945'', Band 3, Bernard & Graefe Verlag Koblenz 1993, , page 253 The Messerschmitt P.1111 was an 8.92 m long tailless airplane with nearly delta-shaped wings, swept back at a 45 degree angle, and a wingspan of 9.12 m. It was equipped with a pressurized cockpit for a single pilot. The planned powerplant was a Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet engine, and armament was to be four 30 mm MK 108 cannon. During a design review comparison conference in Oberammergau on February 27 and 28, 1945 the P. 1111 fared outstanding in the area of performance in high-speed flight capability, take-off, climb and landing performance. The experts held the opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technik Museum Speyer
The Technik Museum Speyer is a technology museum in Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany. 208 History The museum was opened in 1991 as a sister museum of the Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim and is run by a registered alliance called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e.V.". , it has more than 2,000 exhibits and an exhibition area of more than 150,000 m² (indoors and outdoors). It attracts more than half a million visitors per year. In addition to the exhibitions, the museum also sports a 22 m x 27 m giant IMAX Dome theatre. Walk-in exhibits In spring 2002, Lufthansa donated a retired Boeing 747-200 aircraft, which is now accessible to visitors. In April 2008, a Soviet/Russian Buran programme, Buran spacecraft, OK-GLI, was transported to the Technik Museum and is now another walk-in exhibit. Other walk-in highlights are an Antonov An-22 and several other aircraft types, locomotives, the houseboat ''Sean O'Kelley'' of The Kelly Family, and German submarine U-9 (S188), submarine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
