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With all the bog standard P-51s, Spits ,109s et al that is the lot of the commission builder, I spied this ludicrous aviation pipedream on sale a few weeks back, allegedly with damaged boxes and instructions for £19.99 delivered ( Shamefully I mentioned the other place and got a further £1.00 knocked off). Mine arrived in a brand new box, with perfect instructions, go figure. I rather fancy another excursion into the Man in The High Castle territory after my sweet little Ho 229, the full Alclad with red pinstriped tailband methinks, exactly the kind of daft techno-hubris the rampant
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1:48 Focke-Wulf Triebflügel WWII German VTOL Fighter Amusing Hobby Catalogue # 48A001 The Focke-Wulf Triebflügel, or Triebflügeljäger, literally meaning "thrust-wing hunter", was a German concept for an aircraft designed in 1944, during the final phase of World War 2 as a defence against the ever-increasing Allied bombing raids on central Germany. It was a vertical take-off and landing tail-sitter interceptor design for local defence of important factories or areas which had small or no airfields. The Triebflügel had only reached wind-tunnel testing when the Allied