The Hütter Hü 136 was an experimental

dive bomber A dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets in order to provide greater accuracy for the bomb it drops. Diving towards the target simplifies the bomb's trajectory and allows the pilot to keep visual contact througho ...

design produced by German engineers Wolfgang and Ulrich Hütter during World War II.

Design

The Hütters, best known as glider designers, responded to Reich Air Ministry calls for high-performance, strongly built dive bombers. The ''Sturzbomber'' or ''Stubo'' specification came in two parts: Stubo 1, a single-seater with the flight capabilities of a fighter but armoured and with a bombload; and Stubo 2, a two-seat bomber with similar performance but a bombload. The Hü 136 design was highly innovative, with the pilot sitting far to the rear of the aircraft, his cockpit forming part of the vertical tail surface. The design had no

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, with a jettisonable dolly for takeoff and a retractable skid for landing. To overcome the likelihood of contact between the propeller and the ground on landing, the

propeller A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon ...

would be blown off before landing and descend separately by

parachute A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag or, in a ram-air parachute, aerodynamic lift. A major application is to support people, for recreation or as a safety device for aviators, who ...

. The

German Air Ministry The Ministry of Aviation (german: Reichsluftfahrtministerium, abbreviated RLM) was a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933–45). It is also the original name of the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus building on the Wilhelmstrasse ...

(Reichsluftfahrtministerium) did not pursue the design, preferring to adopt the existing Henschel Hs 129.

Specifications

Replica

One replica is on display at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Design

Specifications

Replica

References

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