assembled from the fuselages of the He 177 A-3, the tail of the Ju 188G-2, main undercarriage and nosewheels taken from shot-down B-24 Liberators, all of which were fixed to lower weight and complexity, and equipped with spats to reduce drag.
the Soviets captured the engineers who worked on the Ju 287 (though not before both prototypes were destroyed by the Germans to prevent their capture), and employed them to build their own forward-swept wing bomber prototypes, the OKB-1 EF-131 and EF-140
And those faired wheels were taken from crashed B-24 Liberators....
ReplyDeleteWHOA! That's incredible trivia! Thanks! Adding that to the post!
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