The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber) project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) to obtain a long-range...
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competitor in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium's (the German Air Ministry) Amerikabomber (America Bomber) programme, for a strategic bomber capable of attacking...
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to be an Amerikabomber candidate, to be powered with four BMW 801 radial engines and up to 11,000 km range. Junkers Ju 390 – an Amerikabomber candidate...
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changes in the He 277's overall design philosophy evolved after the Amerikabomber requirement’s emergence in 1941, from the changes in the He 277's general...
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bomber. It was one of the aircraft designs submitted for the abortive Amerikabomber project, along with the Messerschmitt Me 264, the Focke-Wulf Ta 400...
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in Nazi Germany in 1943 by Focke-Wulf as a serious contender for the Amerikabomber project. One of the first aircraft to be developed from components from...
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"rocket bomber"). It was one of a number of designs considered for the Amerikabomber project, which started in the spring of 1942, being focused solely on...
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designs, such as the Horten H.VII fighter-trainer and the Horten H.XVIII Amerikabomber. According to the aviation historian Jean-Denis G.G. LePage, other German...
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military project of the Empire of Japan, similar to the Nazi German Amerikabomber project, to design an intercontinental bomber capable of reaching North...
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the Horten H.XVIII, an intercontinental bomber that was part of the Amerikabomber project, and a prototype for a smaller version was ordered for the 1000...
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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...
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the event that Britain fell (this was similar to Nazi Germany's own Amerikabomber program design competition through the RLM, itself initiated in the...
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gun-mount configuration) Bombs: up to 4,000 kg (8,800 lb) of bombs Amerikabomber Dyer, Edwin M. III (2009). Japanese Secret Projects:Experimental aircraft...
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Condor airliner Focke-Wulf Ta 400 six-engine, trans-Atlantic range Amerikabomber design competitor Focke-Wulf Fw 491 (Fw 391 development) (project) Focke-Wulf...
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in May 2020. In the late 1930s, the German government launched the "Amerikabomber" (English: America bomber) project, and Eugen Sanger's idea, together...
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A-series He 177 by February 1943, one of these being the Heinkel firm's Amerikabomber candidate, only one, the He 177B, emerged in the concluding months of...
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War II AN/APQ-13 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Amerikabomber Avro Lincoln Nakajima G8N Renzan Heinkel He 277 Junkers Ju 290 Messerschmitt...
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tricycle gear arrangement for the four-BMW 801E radial-engine powered Amerikabomber entry version of the proposed He 277 by February 1943, which was also...
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Gablenz in May 1942, concerning the suitability of aircraft for the Amerikabomber contract competition as that proposal first appeared, Generalfeldmarschall...
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designs, notably the Focke-Wulf Fw 238, the Focke-Wulf Ta 400 six-engined Amerikabomber design competition competitor, and other large bombers. The big, 6-BMW...
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Reichsluftfahrtministerium's (RLM) would request the similar ultralong-range Amerikabomber program on 12 May 1942. The USAAC sent out an initial request on 11...
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Amerika Bomber competing designs. It used six engines, as with the later Amerikabomber design competitors, to compensate for nearly all German aircraft engines...
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requested designs from the major German aircraft companies for its Amerikabomber program, in which a long-range strategic bomber would strike the continental...
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proposed long-range version of Fw 200, 1941-1942. Focke-Wulf Ta 400 – Amerikabomber design competitor, never built, 1943. Focke-Wulf Fw P.03.10206 – series...
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his firm's failed Heinkel He 177A heavy bomber—including an unbuilt Amerikabomber design—until the war's end concluded the production of the firm's Spatz...
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reconnaissance + night-fighter, 1943. Junkers Ju 390, six-engine long-range Amerikabomber competitor (prototype) developed from Ju 290, 1943. Junkers Ju 452,...
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daughter, Yoriko Asakura, buried some of Fujita's ashes at the bomb site. Amerikabomber Bombardment of Fort Stevens Fu-Go balloon bomb Operation K As well as...
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Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Focke-Wulf Fw 191 Heinkel He 277 (as designed for Amerikabomber role) Junkers Ju 88 Junkers Ju 188 Junkers Ju 288 (as temporary fitment...
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building a bomber that could strike the United States from Germany (the Amerikabomber project). The RLM gave him a research institute near Braunschweig and...
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Me 328A The proposed parasite fighter intended for carriage by the Amerikabomber, Me 328B The proposed bomber variant. 280 production vehicles on order...
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