The Focke-Wulf Triebflugel

In 1944, at Focke-Wulf, Professor Otto Pabst worked on an interesting fast vertical takeoff aircraft named the Triebflugel. Its purpose was to rise quickly from just about anywhere and attack the allied bombers.
Similar to a helicopter, it was powered by THREE large wing-like rotors but unlike a helicopter, the rotors turned around the fuselage. To preclude fuselage torque, the rotors were powered by small ramjets mounted on the tips and these were to be boosted to start speed by rockets. The landing gear casters in the tail were retractable.The use of the ramjet made it possible to use various cheap fuels.
The big problem consisted, however, in passing from the vertical flight to the level flight and back. The landing presented a particularly delicate moment because the pilot did not have good rearward visibility because of revolving airfoil. One wonders how he/she would have bailed out.

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What people say... I have just finished Fiddlers Green's Triebflugel. I want to congratulate Chip for releasing this model and Chauncy Green for such a wonderful design. The model went together very well which is a credit to the design effort that went into this. Since the model is approx. 1/75 scale it will fit in with the 1/72 collection I am doing. If you have not got this model yet, get it, it's well worth the time it will take to build it. Saul (FEB 3) One would tend to think that all three-view technical drawings and profiles of the same plane would be the same... one would be wrong. It's surprising how much these thing vary. I'm not just talking about small details either, the actual part shapes and proportions are noticeably different and once an inaccurate drawing is published, it is often picked up upon by others and repeated. As if that weren't enough, I have one book of WW2 period scale drawings that states that one guy's work was too accurate for the War Department's liking, so he had to go back and change the shape of certain things. They warned the reader about the B-29 vertical tail, but who knows what others there are? Chauncy Green