The Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau "Flat Riser"

by David Myhra PhD

Overview

The trouble with conventional aircraft is that they need runways, long expensive concrete runways so that they can take-off and land. During times of war, the enemy's airports and their hard-surfaced runways make inviting targets. They might just as well have big white letters stating "BOMB HERE"! What is needed in times of total war is an interceptor which can take-off and land vertically from hiding places like cities, farms and wooded areas. This is the story of one VTOL (verticle take off and landing) proposed by the Focke-Wulf company, for the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II. For more information, please visit "www.stealthaircraftandaviationhistory.net" or http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=myhra&x=19&y=13 or http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/david-myhra?keyword=david+myhra&store=ebook

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013969353
Publisher:	RCW Technology S&S, Inc.
Publication date:	02/23/2012
Series:	The Luftwaffe Project Design Board , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

• David Myhra, PHD, has written more books (30+) on World War Two German flying machines and their designers than anyone living or dead. He has interviewed dozens of former German aviation designers and gas turbine and rocket scientists throughout the 1980s in places such as West Germany, East Germany, France, the USA, South America and other countries. He was also involved in the production of numerous TV documentaries such as the History Channel’s 2005 “Nazi Plan To Bomb New York” and the National Geographic TV Channel’s 2009 documentary “Hitler’s Stealth Fighter.” (This featured the building of a full-scale replica of the Horten Ho 229 V3 by the Northrop Corporation and its radar cross section (RCS) testing at their classified radar test range in the California Mojave Desert.) Visit his website: http://www.luftwaffeaviationhistory.net/