TYPE: Interception fighter. Project

ACCOMMODATION: Pilot only

POWER PLANT: Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet, rated at 1,500 kp

PERFORMANCE:  +600 mph (estimated)

COMMENT: The Blohm & Voss Bv P.212 was a proposed jet fighter designed by Blohm & Voss for the Jägernotprogramm (Emergency Fighter Program) Luftwaffe design competition during the Second World War.
In early 1945, a replacement was sought for the Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger (Peoples fighter) under the continuing Emergency Fighter Program, challenging engeneers to develop a new aircraft built around the Heinkel-Hirth HeS 011, a new turbojet engine which was being developed, in order to create a better high-altitude fighter jet. By February 1945, the Luftwaffe had received several proposals. Three proposals had been received from Messerschmitt, two from Focke-Wulf and one each from Heinkel, Junkers and Blohm & Voss respectively. The competition was won by the Junkers EF 128, a broadly similar design
Three iterations of the Bv P.212 were studied, all featuring a similar general layout of a short fuselage with nose intake leading to a single buried Heinkel-Hirth HeS 011 jet engine, and a tailless swept wing.
Bv P 212.01 presented here was the first design. It had a short, squat fuselage and a short air intake for the He S 011 jet engine. Its wings were swept at a 45-degree angle.
Bv P.212.02 was the second design and featured a slightly lengthened fuselage and was seen as a refined version of the original.
Bv P.212.03 was the third version and boasted a further lengthened fuselage with a pressurized cockpit and larger internal fuel tanks. Its wings were swept back at forty degrees. Uniquely, the wings were designed to be made out of either wood, steel or luminium as available. With an ideal fuel weight, the aircraft could fly for up to four hours at a time. This was the model presented to the Luftwaffe (Ref.: 24).

Type: Interceptor fighter

ACCOMMODATION: Pilot only

POWER PLANT: BMW 003 turbojet, rated at 800 kp

PERFORMANCE: 477 m.p.h. at 19.500 ft (estimated)

COMMENT: The Blohm & Voss Bv P 211 was a design proposal submitted by Blohm & Voss to the Volksjäger jet fighter competition of the Luftwaffe Emergency Fighter Program towards the end of the Second World war.
During the latter part of 1944, when the High Command of the Luftwaffe saw that there was a dire need to put up a strong defense against the devastating Allied bombing raids. On September 1944 the aircraft manufacturers Messerschmitt, Arado, Focke-Wulf, Heinkel, Junkers and Blohm & Voss were asked to propose designs for single-engined light fighters weighing no more than 2000 kg that would use one BMW 003 jet engine per unit.
Owing to the war-related scarcity of strategic matrials such as aluminium, the jets were required to be simplified in order to be built using a strict minimum, as well as to be built in adequate quantities as quickly as possible in underground factories. Despite these requirements that would impinge on the overall quality of the new planes, their performance was required to surpass that of the best piston-engined fighters, being able to reach a maximum speed of 470 mph with a minimum combat action time of 30 minutes.
Blohm & Voss submitted two preliminary designs, the Bv P 210 tailless swept wing jet and the more conventional, tailed P 211. Only the Bv P 211 was progressed further in two variants.
The Blohm & Voss Bv P. 211.01 had a low swept wing but with a conventional tail. The single BMW 003A-1 engine was located amidships in the lower fuselage, with a tail boom extending above and behind it. Although it had good aerodynamic properties and was praised by officials, it did not go into production.
The second variant, The Blohm & Voss Bv P 211.02 was similar to the P 211.01 but, since low cost and ease of manufacture were important, had a simpler straight, unswept wing. The wing was placed in the shoulder position, slightly below the top of the fuselage. The P 211.02 included wood in its construction. Parts of the plane were built, such as the steel air-intake/fuselage load-bearing structure for the single BMW 003A-1 engine. However, the P 211.02 didn’t go past the project stage for the project was finally awarded to Heinkel whose He 162 Spatz went into mass-production (Ref.: 24).

TYPE: Interceptor, fighter. Project

ACCOMMODATION: Pilot only

POWER PLANT: Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet, rated at 1,500 kp

PERFORMANCE: Not available

TYPE: Interceptor, fighter. Project

ACCOMMODATION: Pilot only, prone position

POWER PLANT: 2 x Heinkel HeS 011 turbo jets, rated at 1,300 kp each

PERFORMANCE: Not available

COMMENT: Project of a twin engined delta fighter. Only a model was built

TYPE: Interceptor fighter. Project

ACCOMMODATION: Pilot only

POWER PLANT: Walter HKW 109-509 A-2 liquid fueled rocket engine, rated at 1,700kp

PERFORMANCE: 621 mph

COMMENT: Although nicknamed “Volksjäger” (“peoples fighter”), this project was not proposed for the RLM “Volksjäger” competition from September 1944. This design was possibly submitted for the “Miniaturjäger” (Miniature fighter) competition of the RLM.

TYPE: Interceptor. Project

ACCOMMODATION: Pilot only

POWER PLANT: One Walter HKW 109-509A, rated at 1.700 kp

PERFORMANCE: Not available

COMMENT:The Sombold 344 “Schußjäger” (Shoot Fighter) was a rocket powered aircraft designed in 1943/44. It was originally intended as a parasite escort fighter, but its original design was changed in January 1944. The second version of the aircraft retained the two MG machine guns, but its front section was an ejectable explosive nose with stabilizing fins filled with 400 kg of explosives. The pilot sat in the cockpit near the tail which was in the back section. The plane would have been released from a mother plane upon reaching combat altitude. Then it would ignite its single rocket engine and dive towards the enemy bomber fleet at a 45 degree angle. Shortly before contact it would release its explosive nose, equipped with a proximity fuze into the center of the combat box formation in a way that it would damage as many bombers as possible. Then it would try to get away with the remaining fuel in its rocket engine and finally land on its fixed skid. A 1/5 scale model for aerodynamic tests existed when the works on the So 344 were abandoned in early 1945 (Ref.: 23).

TYPE: Interceptor, fighter. Project.

ACCOMODATION: Pilot only

POWER PLANT: Two Lorin ramjet engines, rated at 1.500 kp each (estimated) plus one Walther WHK 109-509A liquid-fueled rocket engine, rated at 1.700 kp

PERFORMANCE: 680 mph in 36090 ft (estimated)

COMMENT: Very little is known about this project, which was designed around the same time as the Focke-Wulf Fw Ta 238. The “Super Lorin” featured sharply swept back wings which were mounted mid-fuselage. There were two ramjets mounted at the tips of the swept back tail plane, this was thought to minimize airflow disturbance. Since ramjets do not begin to operate until a speed of approximately 150 mph is reached, Schmidding solid- fueled or Walter WHK 109 liquid-fueled rockets were proposed to accelerate the aircraft until the ramjets could begin operating. The landing gear was to be a tricycle arrangement, and armament would have been two MK 108 30mm cannon. The aircraft shown here is fitted with two Ruhstahl/Kramer X-4 guided missiles. (Ref.: 16).