World War II is about to end, a new type of aircraft landed in the sky, and the radar cannot detect its speed, which is even faster than the fastest interceptor at the time, and can even cross the Atlantic Ocean one-way, but this aircraft is neither British nor American, it is Germany in World War II. This terrible concept of aircraft is an innovation of the Holden brothers.
is used to bomb New York, the first stealth bomber Holden H18 that has never been built. This is not just a top-secret German aircraft, but is actually the first step in the plan to attack and conquer the United States. The initial strategy was to harass the East Coast population center, turn the United States into local defense, and infuriate the American public's desire for war. The plan also includes a list of 21 targets, mainly attacking the East Coast aircraft manufacturers, aiming to ground the U.S. Air Force,
Its origins can actually be traced back to the United States being involved in the conflict, and even before World War II. According to the Hitler Diary in 1937, Smith hoped to arrive in the United States in 1938 by showing a new aircraft design, thereby winning a huge contract with the Hitler administration. He also delivered a speech to emphasize that the new Luftwaffe lacks bomber power and hopes to have bombers traveling to and from New York with a load of 4.5 tons. The project was slow until the late War in 1942 that the project was accelerated.
At that time, they believed that the new bomber was a derivative of HE-277, JU-390 and ME-264 at that time. If launched from the Azura Islands, the mission can be performed I would do it in a minute, but in turn, each of these aircraft designs proved unsuitable throughout the war.
ME 264 fighter
me264 cannot be equipped with the decorations needed for assault, and the junkers lack range, although it is rumored that the ju-390 did indeed conduct test flights on the United States, but so far, this has not been confirmed.
JU-390
At that time, Germany wanted to have an strategic bomber , which had a range of 11,000 kilometers or 6,835 miles, and a bomb load of 4,000 kilograms or 8,818 pounds. Simply put, it was bombing from Berlin to New York, and then returned, and kept stopping to refuel in the middle.
Flight Plan
The top five German aircraft companies started working and submitted designs, unfortunately none of these designs met the strict requirements, which required Hitler's army to go and use them as front-line bombing bases, which was a round of modifications to propose a solution, but there was little improvement except for flying to the United States to abandon bombers and return through submarines.
cannot fly directly, and the Azura Islands need to be used as a supply point
But there was a team missing the Holden brothers and their flight wings in the choice of aircraft designers, they were left out just because the German command thought the Holden brothers were not interested in bombers, they focused only on small fighters, and after learning about this, Holden thought they could overcome these design requirements and start working on Christmas 1944 Conceived their new transatlantic bomber.
Engineering Drawings
They made a rough sketch with weight calculations for fuel assembly decorating landing gear and bomb loads, some of which have as many as eight jet engines , but they chose six as a good middle ground, and the new criticism design has several advantages over the previous type In the entire large surface area dedicated to generating lift, the aircraft's fuel efficiency can be increased by 20% to 30% due to the smaller cross-section of the wing, and the range is longer. It can also have a smaller radar profile, making it the world's first stealth aircraft bomber
The final brother two design, which will be called the Holden 18, it can ride four crew members, with a wingspan of 19 meters in length, a 40 meters wide and a wing area of 150 square meters, which is used in this flight bomber using six turbojet engines , and buried the engine in the fuselage with air intakes at the leading edge of the wing. Using these engines, the aircraft can cruise at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour and never exceeds 900 kilometers per hour.
This is actually twice the speed of Allied aircraft, almost impossible to intercept, and the range has never been formally determined, and although weight and speed are a key issue, it is said to be able to easily cross the Atlantic Ocean with a payload of 4,000 kg bombs.
The entire aircraft will be composed of a wooden frame and carbon-based glue, causing the radar signal to be weakened. When the Allies had basic radars, engineers at that time may not have considered the plan to pass the radar smoothly without being discovered, but the Holden brothers proposed the final design and radar avoidance plan in a presentation of Berlin before February 25, 1945.
The original five aircraft companies were questioned whether the concept could be feasible and whether it could really be built. Leave a silent company, but you can see that they were planning something that wings outperform any original design. A few days later, the brothers were asked to attend a meeting with the Empire Marshall Guling, who informed them that the plane would continue to move forward and to work with the Junkers company to build
The brothers were able to successfully build the plane, not only ensured a huge publicity victory for the German side, but the idea of investing in this futuristic aircraft would ensure the reputation of Guling's failure, perhaps ensuring that it could pass safely in the event that Germany might be defeated.
The brothers have financial knowledge and new industrial capabilities, so why did this miracle bomber never take off
This is because the brothers came to the design team, and the two found themselves without command and worked with an engineer committee. At the same time, the company made great changes to their design. A huge vertical tail wing and a rudder were added to control the movement of the aircraft, and at the same time it would provide more control, which would greatly increase the man-hour output and increase drag, thereby reducing the range
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 The engines moved outside the wings and tied them under the cabin, almost subverting the designs of the brothers compared to the original design, but it was approved by the German government, and the work will be tested in the fall of 1945, with a new long concrete runway to accelerate it as a side, documenting a further derivative version of the version a merger with the improvements of the version b, called the c or b-2 version, it is hard to say what it is, and in fact there is little left of the project.
But obviously it has six engines, a turret in the middle of the wing, and a huge tail, even bigger than the b version, it comes from two concepts, but does not really have an advantage or the Holden brothers are very disliked,
Holden brothers
As the war is coming to an end, Hitler pushes the last resource to the increasingly ridiculous miracle weapon, delusional cable tide.Unfortunately, Holden 18 did not make it on the list because there was not enough material and not enough ability to keep it going. The war finally failed before we saw the beast flying into the sky with computer modeling. Today we can look at the design and see how advanced the two brothers were in the design at that time. It turns out that Holden 18 was so fast and not easy to find that it would be very successful in mission and aviation purity.
Thank goodness here, it was not developed during World War II, otherwise it would be a catastrophic consequence. However, if you know the military fans, you will definitely feel familiar when you see the picture above. Yes, it is very similar to the American b2 stealth bomber. What's the secret in the middle? Next time, we will talk about the b2 stealth bomber .
B2 Stealth Bomber
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