Jet Fighters Jet Bombers & V-Weapons
Documentary (2016)
French title: Les dernières armes d'Hitler
Last chance weapons for Nazis.
De Havilland DH98 Mosquito
Heinkel He 178
Drawing board design.
Heinkel He 178 V1
Pictures of maiden flight on 27 August 1939.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Heinkel He 280 V3
First flight on July 5 of 1942.
Heinkel He 280 V2
First flight on 30 March 1941. Note the reactors without their cowling to avoid the risk of ignition due to kerosene leaks.
Depending the source, this could be too the Heinkel He 280 V1.
Messerschmitt Me 163A V4
V4 Prototype first flight by 2 October 1941, bearing the radio call sign letters (Stammkennzeichen) KE+SW. Set a new world speed record of 1,004.5 km/h. Ten Me 163A (V4-V13) were built for pilot training and further tests; these were unarmed.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Messerschmitt Me 163A & Messerschmitt Me 163B
From left to right.
Messerschmitt Me 163B-0
Walter HWK 109-509A rocket engine.
Fuelling C-Stoff / T-Stoff propellant.Both fuel and oxidizer were toxic and required extreme care when loading in the aircraft.
To help prevent explosions, the engine and the propellant storage and delivery systems were frequently and thoroughly hosed down and flushed with water run through the propellant tanks and the rocket engine's propellant systems before and after flights, to clean out any remnants.
Get into the Cockpit.
Instrument panel.
Messerschmitt Me 163B-1
Registration +14. Luftwaffe's first dedicated Me 163 fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 400. See discussion tab.
Towed by a Scheuch Schlepper.
Feldwebel Siegfried Schubert was the most successful pilot, with three bombers shot down to his credit.
Unidentified Luftwaffe Aircraft
Twin-engine twin-tail aircraft of the Luftwaffe. Most probably a Messerschmitt Bf 110 or maybe a Dornier Do 17 with the national insignia on the wings hidden by a net.
Messerschmitt Me 163B-1
From fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 400.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
I./JG 400's base at Brandis, near Leigzig.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Messerschmitt Me 262 V1
Messerschmitt Me 262 V1, first prototype, initially powered by a single Jumo 210G with 2 blades propeller in the nose, but later fitted with two BMW P.3302 turbojet engines and tail reshaped. Seen here in April 1941 after upgrade. Registration PC+UA.
Messerschmitt Me 262 V3
Third prototype fitted with two Junkers Jumo 004A turbojet engines, and conventional landing gear.
Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant
Cargo glider, 200 built.
Messerschmitt Me 262 V3 in the foregound.
Messerschmitt Me 262 V3
PC+UC taking off. Note the black nose outfit.
Disadvantage of conventional landing gear.
Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant in the background.
Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a Sturmvogel
Tricycle landing gear fighter-bomber version.
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe
Refuelling.
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1/U4 Pulkzerstörer
Bomber destroyer armed with a single 50 mm Mk.214a cannon in the nose.
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a Schwalbe
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a/U3 Schwalbe
Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a/U3 Schwalbe white 3 of Kommando Braunegg (later part of 2 Nahaufklärungsgruppe 6). Fitted with a single cannon and two cameras, this airframe was a operational testbed for the reconnaissance variant.
Removing the compartment containing the film to be developed
... and now towing the aircraft to the maintenance unit.
Arado Ar 234 B-2
Powered by a pair of Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engines. Tricycle landing gear.
Arado Ar 234 V1
First flight on July 30 of 1943. Fitted with jettisonable tricycle gear-style trolley and landing skid.
Arado Ar 234 V7
For increased thrust during takeoff, Ar-234s used Hellmuth Walter designed liquid-fueled, rocket-assisted takeoff (RATO) boosters, one mounted beneath each wing.
Junkers Ju 86 D-1
To the left. Ju 86 D version or Junkers Ju 86 E if radial engines, not visible here.
Arado Ar 234 V8
Four-engined prototype design with lower-thrust BMW 003 turbojet engines while retaining skid/trolley undercarriage.
Arado Ar 234 V9
Representative prototype of the Arado Ar 234 B production aircraft, with the V9 being the first airframe with retractable tricycle undercarriage.
Siebel Si 204 D-1
Background behind Arado Ar 234 V9 mentioned above.
Junkers Ju 86 A
Background behind Arado Ar 234 V9 mentioned above.
Arado Ar 234 V3
3rd prototype registered DP+AX. First flight on September 29 of 1943.
Fieseler Fi 103 V-1 Vergeltungswaffe
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Gloster Meteor F.1
Introduced by No. 616 Squadron RAF in July 1944.
Hawker Tempest Mk.V
Introduced by No. 3 Squadron RAF in April 1944.
Mittlewerk EWM Vergeltungswaffe V-2
Peenemünde Army Research Center.
Mittlewerk EWM Vergeltungswaffe V-2
First Tests at Peenemünde Army Research Center.
Mittlewerk EWM Vergeltungswaffe V-2
Blizna V-2 missile launch site.
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