The Focke-Wulf ''Flitzer'' ("streaker" or "dasher", sometimes incorrectly translated as "madcap") was a jet
fighter under development in
Germany
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at the end of
World War II
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.
Development
The design, also called Entwurf VI, had a central
fuselage
The fuselage (; from the French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraft t ...
and
two booms carrying the
rear control surfaces, having great similarity with the contemporary
de Havilland Vampire. It also had the air inlets still positioned on either side of the nose, just below the
cockpit
A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a Pilot in command, pilot controls the aircraft.
The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the ...
.
The estimated horizontal speed was not satisfactory and ''Flitzer'' was revised whereby the jet intakes were situated in the wing roots. Further improvements included a narrower fuselage and a changed pilot's
canopy. In order to improve the
rate of climb, a
Walter HWK 109-509
The Walter HWK 109-509 was a German liquid-fuel bipropellant rocket engine that powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and Bachem Ba 349 aircraft. It was produced by Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft (HWK) commencing in 1943, with licensed p ...
hypergolic
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The two propellant components usually consist of a fuel and an oxidizer. The ...
liquid-propellant rocket was built in to give supplementary thrust. A complete mockup was built and all construction and assembly plans were finished, but the aircraft was not accepted by the
Reich Air Ministry (''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'', RLM).
Although referred to as Fw 272 in some sources, the ''Flitzer'' was never given an RLM designation, and the putative designation "Fw 272" is derived from drawing Nr. 272 for the ''Flitzer''.
[Dan Sharp, 2020. ''Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe: Jet Fighters 1939-1945'', Mortons.]
Specifications (design draft of 15 September 1944)
See also
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Emergency Fighter Program
References
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Luftwaffe Projects(In Russian)
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Abandoned military aircraft projects of Germany
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Twin-boom aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Single-engined jet aircraft
Aircraft with auxiliary rocket engines