SECRET PROJECTS OF THE LUFTWAFFE Blohm & Voss BV 155:

Dan Sharp

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Softback 116 pages, Illustrated with photographs , plans and six pages of colour profile artwork Dimensions â : â 17.78 x 0.64 x 24.13 cm The story of the Messerschmitt Me 109's ultimate development, the Blohm & Voss BV 155, begins in 1942 with plans to split the Me 109 family into three branches - a standard fighter, a high-altitude fighter and a carrier-based fighter. Initially these were known as the Me 409 but later became the Me 155 A, B and C. The project was given to the French to develop, where it stalled. But when Germany got its first taste of what the USAAF's bomber force was capable of - suffering huge damage to its war-critical industries as a result of massed raids on its factories and cities - work on the Me 155 B was recommenced as a matter of urgency. With the Me 262 consuming most of Messerschmitt's design capacity, the project was then passed on to a subcontractor: Blohm & Voss. Richard Vogt, B&V's chief designer, quickly realised that Messerschmitt had made very little progress on the design and was forced to begin again almost from scratch. In just over a year, a prototype was built and flown - but the war ended before production could begin.

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• Title: SECRET PROJECTS OF THE LUFTWAFFE Blohm & Voss BV 155:
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