Blohm&voss B.V. P 204

[chrisonord]

At the end of the second World War,  the allies searched Germany  for the technology the Germans had been working on. The British  team  nicknamed themselves  the bureau  of axis acquisitions,  as a joke, but their name  became  official. During an inspection of an airfield,  the team came across  a heavily  concealed  subterranean  hangar which was made from concrete  and covered  in earth and greenery. After putting  a charge on the smaller  door they managed to get in and found  some quite unusual  aircraft,  some assembled and ready to go,  and one  much larger  partially  built  aircraft  that really  took  their eye. After some searching  of the side rooms  some drawings were found,  and at the top it just said B&V p204. Said drawings  showed final assembly and ancillary installation,  so they were put with the part built  aircraft  and taken  to the U.K, to a secret  location  to be assembled and hopefully  put into serviceable condition. The aircraft was brought over with a similar designed  aircraft  but much smaller, intelligence  had been  gathered  on this and it was call that B&V P178, also to be a bomber  destroyer, like the 204.The 204 was originally designed to be a high altitude high speed  reconnaissance aircraft,  until  Hitler  saw it and said  it has to be a bomber  interceptor  instead.  The layout of the aircraft wasn't  suited for said  task, but the designers did their best with what they had to change its job. The second  crew member  no longer took pictures  and wound up/down  the outriggers,  he had to hand load the 70mm cannon,  man the tail gun via a periscope operate the outriggers,  and, if being used as a night fighter,  operate  the radar. Once together  and running,  the aircraft  had to be modified  as there was no way  the second  crew member  could  get out safely, so the outriggers  were operated via the pilot   via a pair of awkward  ratchet  spools and cables.  No ammunition was  found  for the 70 mm gun but the other 5 guns were operational. One 30 mm cannon and a  7.92mm machine  gun were installed  in the left wing root, two 20 mm cannon  in the lower nose, 70 mm cannon  on the left fuselage  and a 20 mm cannon  in the tail. This would have been quite a headache  for allied bombers  had it been  operational. After just 2 flights  it was discovered that the argus engines were causing  serious health  problems  for the pilot,  and further  tests  were kept  very short, and the aircraft  was fitted with several  different  damping  mechanisms  to try and stop both the pilot  from being  harmed  and structural damage to the aircraft. The boffins in the ministry reckoned the aircraft  could  do well  over 550 knotts  at high altitude,  but the pilots who tested  the aircraft  refused to  attempt  it. Despite  the aircraft  being a  flying  death trap , it never once had an accident. After exhausting all test ideas on the aircraft,  it was believed that the Americans  got their hands on it ,and it never  came back.
This isn't  a kit, it is made almost entirely  from parts from bits boxes, with the exception of the argus engines. I  designed  this thing in my head while in hospital in August,  its amazing  what 50 litres a minute  of oxygen  does to the imagination.
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[Tophe]

Great imagination! and great skills turning it plastic!

[NARSES2]

Neat one Chris 

And if you ever have an odd design rattling around in your head B&V are always a good home 

[chrisonord]

Cheers,  I  have a couple of different  ones of theirs in the stash.  I  like the luft 46 stuff  a lot, so wanted to incorporate  some into my build threads.

[Tophe]

I  like the luft 46 stuff  a lot, so wanted to incorporate  some into my build threads.

Uh, I will not feel allowed to clap my hands publicly if there are swastikas on your future models, but like here with Allied roundels after WW2, I feel happy!

And I like your asymmetric invention
even if the zwilling of it is loosing asymmetry

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Bv-P204cz2.jpg

[chrisonord]

I  like the luft 46 stuff  a lot, so wanted to incorporate  some into my build threads.

Uh, I will not feel allowed to clap my hands publicly if there are swastikas on your future models, but like here with Allied roundels after WW2, I feel happy!

And I like your asymmetric invention
even if the zwilling of it is loosing asymmetry

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Bv-P204cz2.jpg

Hello Tophe,
None of my builds will have swastikas  on them, that's  for sure, as they will all be captured  or built  from captured plans and put into  an evaluation  squadron.  I could  put the ones I  have already  done in this squadron  too.  Had a feeling  you would like this due to the asymmetric nature,  I  am currently  building  another asymmetric  aircraft  too.
Cheers
Chris

[Tophe]

Double good news!!

[su27rules]