Blohm & Voss BV P.215.02
My second submission for the flying wing challenge.
History:
A specification was issued by the German Technical Air Armaments Board in late January 1944 for a dedicated jet night fighter. Dr. Richard Vogt, who designed the several tailless aircraft, immediately began work on an aircraft to meet the specifications issued for the new night fighter. Vogt used some of his previous tailess designs as the overall basis for the new BV P.215 night fighter. The pressurized cockpit held a three man crew; a pilot, radar operator and navigator/radio man, and all three were provided with ejection seats. A wide variety of offensive armament could be carried in the aircraft's nose including up to 5 or 6 MK 108 cannons, and defensive armament consisted of a FHL 151 remote controlled, rear-facing turret armed with either one or two MG 151/20 20 mm cannon. Two SC 250 250 kg (551 lbs) or SC 500 (1102 lbs) could be carried in a belly recess, and plans were drawn up to put as many as 56 unguided rockets in the nose! The end of the war ended any further development of this novel aircraft.
Controls:
All Normal flight controls.
TRIM is Trim, Deactivate with AG8 when using the turret.
Activate Turret with AG3 and use VTOL and TRIM to control.
Notes:
100% scale in size. Performance is well below what it should be since I cant remove drag from this thing.
Thks to @Baby for help! Couldn’t have done it with out ‘em.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Predecessor The FlyingWing Challenge
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 62.3ft (19.0m)
- Length 31.5ft (9.6m)
- Height 16.0ft (4.9m)
- Empty Weight 9,166lbs (4,157kg)
- Loaded Weight 13,347lbs (6,054kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 0.505
- Wing Loading 23.4lbs/ft2 (114.2kg/m2)
- Wing Area 570.5ft2 (53.0m2)
- Drag Points 6452
Parts
- Number of Parts 179
- Control Surfaces 8
- Performance Cost 712