Warplanes of Germany: Luftwaffe Mistel composite aircraft
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ju 88 mistel The most successful of these used a modified Junkers Ju 88 bomber as the Mistel, with the entire nose-located crew compartment replaced by a specially designed nose filled with a large load of explosives, formed into a shaped charge. The upper component was a fighter aircraft, joined to the Mistel by struts..
spider jump 789 The Mistel composite, also know as the Beethoven-Gerät, consisted of the Ju 88 bomber as the lower component. Above the Ju 88, which was an unmaned flying bomb, there was a single-engine fighter placed on a special scaffolding called Huckepack.
jun88 com đăng nhập Description: The Mistel series of composite aircraft are without a doubt one of the strangest concepts to achieve operational status with the Luftwaffe. The original concept was proposed to the RLM in 1941 by Siegfried Holzbauer, A Junkers test pilot. His idea was to make use of "tired" Ju 88 airframes by packing them with explosives, fly them near a target and crash them into the target after ...