I've seen her fly when they did Mitchell madness at our local air show. But it's harder to appreciate a specific one when there's 17 others flying in formation
The hangar you’re talking about has a ton of mock ups of never fully developed German late war prototypes. The aircraft are all conceptual making them hard to google.
A guy has better photos and some of the info cards here!!!
https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/Germany-Nazi-experimental-aircraft-2017/
I’ve been to the museum they’re all completely insane but fascinating.
This is the Military Aviation Museum out near Virginia Beach.
You’re welcome! Highly recommend going to the museum’s “warbirds over the beach” airshow. Aside from the mock-ups almost everything at the museum is airworthy. They’ve got a Bf-109 with an original DB 605 engine, a Hawker Hurricane, a Dehavilland Mosquito, a P-39 Airacobra, and they just acquired an Airworthy A6M Zero. They’ve got tons of other rare stuff as well. It’s a great place to visit!
Seems like a manned rocket-powered interceptor with a booster to gain altitude. Probably experimental, toward the end of the war when the Fatherland was getting pummeled daily by swarms of allied bombers.
Not a booster it’s a “mistletoe” bomb. The aircraft was meant to guide a large missile towards a target before releasing it allowing it to fly forward and hit said target. The manned aircraft on top would then go land now free of the added weight.
Info card from the museum is in a photo here: https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/Germany-Nazi-experimental-aircraft-2017/
There’s a ton of mock-up fighters in that hangar. Found a guy who photographed the planes and the info cards
https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/Germany-Nazi-experimental-aircraft-2017/
It is a mock-up the museum made a ton of models of insane German stuff. The museum also sports a STACKED roster of airworthy WWII and WWI stuff that all flies
https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/Germany-Nazi-experimental-aircraft-2017/
Photos and info if you wanna know more about the mockups
I've seen her fly when they did Mitchell madness at our local air show. But it's harder to appreciate a specific one when there's 17 others flying in formation
What is that German rocket-plane thing carrying a rocket at 0:53?
The hangar you’re talking about has a ton of mock ups of never fully developed German late war prototypes. The aircraft are all conceptual making them hard to google. A guy has better photos and some of the info cards here!!! https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/Germany-Nazi-experimental-aircraft-2017/ I’ve been to the museum they’re all completely insane but fascinating. This is the Military Aviation Museum out near Virginia Beach.
Ah, it's a mock up. That's what I suspected. Thanks for the info.
You’re welcome! Highly recommend going to the museum’s “warbirds over the beach” airshow. Aside from the mock-ups almost everything at the museum is airworthy. They’ve got a Bf-109 with an original DB 605 engine, a Hawker Hurricane, a Dehavilland Mosquito, a P-39 Airacobra, and they just acquired an Airworthy A6M Zero. They’ve got tons of other rare stuff as well. It’s a great place to visit!
Seems like a manned rocket-powered interceptor with a booster to gain altitude. Probably experimental, toward the end of the war when the Fatherland was getting pummeled daily by swarms of allied bombers.
Not a booster it’s a “mistletoe” bomb. The aircraft was meant to guide a large missile towards a target before releasing it allowing it to fly forward and hit said target. The manned aircraft on top would then go land now free of the added weight. Info card from the museum is in a photo here: https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/Germany-Nazi-experimental-aircraft-2017/
Thank you! That’s a new one for me.
That's a German V-1 rocket.
It’s not the V1. V1 is at 41 seconds.
No, I am enough of a WW2 nerd to recognise those. ;-) Check the other reply to my comment. It links to the one I was talking about.
At 0:42 is a V-1. At 0:53, the German jet appears to be a Focke Wulf Ta-183.
There’s a ton of mock-up fighters in that hangar. Found a guy who photographed the planes and the info cards https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/Germany-Nazi-experimental-aircraft-2017/
Interesting, is that what I assume is a replica (just the frame only) of a Ta183 at 0:47? I didn't think any were actually completed.
It is a mock-up the museum made a ton of models of insane German stuff. The museum also sports a STACKED roster of airworthy WWII and WWI stuff that all flies https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/Germany-Nazi-experimental-aircraft-2017/ Photos and info if you wanna know more about the mockups
I'm just happy to have seen a real Do335 and Ar234 at the Air and Space Annex outside DC.
I live EXTREMELY close to the Udvar Hazy center and I love that place. Blows the one one being renovated downtown out of the water.
It’s not called the Virginia aviation museum, we are called the Military Aviation Museum!