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The Focke-Wulf ''Peterle'' was a design study for a
turboprop
A turboprop is a turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller.
A turboprop consists of an intake, reduction gearbox, compressor, combustor, turbine, and a propelling nozzle. Air enters the intake and is compressed by the compressor. Fuel ...
-powered
fighter-bomber
A fighter-bomber is a fighter aircraft that has been modified, or used primarily, as a light bomber or attack aircraft. It differs from bomber and attack aircraft primarily in its origins, as a fighter that has been adapted into other roles, wh ...
, undertaken in
Germany
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during
World War II
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.
Development
It was based on the work previously done on
Focke-Wulf Flitzer
The Focke-Wulf ''Flitzer'' ("streaker" or "dasher", sometimes incorrectly translated as "madcap") was a jet fighter under development in Germany at the end of World War II.
Development
The design, also called Entwurf VI, had a central fuselage a ...
. The ''Peterle'', known in Focke-Wulf documents as ''Einmotoriges Jagdflugzeug mit PTL-Gerät 021'' was for an aircraft very similar in shape. The performance was calculated to be much better, but the unswept tail surfaces were predicted to cause problems at high speed, and the project was abandoned.
Some sources refer to this design as the Fw 281, but this is a fictitious designation derived from project label Baubeschreibung Nr. 281 for the ''Einmotoriges Jagdflugzeug mit PTL-Gerät 021''.
[Dan Sharp; Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe: Jet Fighters 1939-1945, hardback, Mortons, 2020.]
Specifications (as designed)
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Abandoned military aircraft projects of Germany
Project VIII
Single-engined pusher aircraft
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