The Arado E.581-4 was a German

flying wing A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage, with its crew, payload, fuel, and equipment housed inside the main wing structure. A flying wing may have various small protuberances such as pods, nacelles, blis ...

bomber project. It had three landing gears, and an unusually low fuselage.

History

The aircraft was originally designed as the

Arado E.555 The Arado E.555 was a long range strategic bomber proposed by the German Arado company during World War II in response to the RLM's ''Amerikabomber'' project. The E.555 designation was applied to a series of long range jet bomber designs of va ...

, and a scaled down version was designed in 1944, developing into this craft. Production was never completed, however, as it was dropped in favour of maximising production of existing designs.

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