This is the story of the worlds first attempt at perfecting a true, tail-sitting vertical take off and landing (VTOL) interceptor flying machine Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbaus proposed Triebflugeljager or thrust wing fighter project of 1944. The Triebflugeljager was not intended to be an air-superiority dogfighter, but a bomber killer rising straight up from its hiding place in the forest or urban area to meet and attack Allied bombers head on. With its mission completed it would return to its hiding place on the forest floor and wait to arise again. The Triebflugeljager would have been a point-defense interceptor intended for the Luftwaffe home defense squadrons and its most important virtue was that it would not need a runway. Highly unusual, then as well as today, the Triebflugeljager was an amazing prototype.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Myhra, D.
Title
Dragonfly. The Luftwaffe's Experimental Triebflügeljäger Project
Details
English text, paperback, 240 bw- and colour photographs, drawings, large format. 128 pages.
State
new
Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 77 Lower Valley Road PA 19310 Atglen, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
