Fw Super Lorin

[dy031101]

This one looks very similar to Ta-183...... albeit without the T-tail and with two ramjet engines.  Looks like a hotrod to me.

One question though- since the ramjets have their own intakes (as they're mounted in pods) and the aux. engine in the tail is a rocket motor, what does the nose intake feed air to?

[Jschmus]

Wow!  I'm stumped.  The side view seems to indicate that the nose intake leads to something which exits out the bottom of the aircraft.  Maybe it was another form of supplemental propulsion?

[Ed S]

Three jets & a rocket.  I bet it's got just enough gas for a really fast trip around the pattern.

Ed

[dy031101]

Three jets & a rocket.  I bet it's got just enough gas for a really fast trip around the pattern.

For the same reason, I actually have a hard time accepting that the aircraft was to have both the auxiliary jet AND a rocket motor.