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concrete runways so that they can take-off and land. During times of war, the
enemy's airports and their hard-surfaced runways make inviting targets. They
might just as well have big white letters stating "BOMB HERE"! What is needed in
times of total war is an interceptor which can take-off and land vertically from
hiding places like cities, farms and wooded areas. This is the story of one VTOL
(verticle take off and landing) proposed by the Heinkel AG company, for the
Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II.
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David Myhra, PhD, has written more than 100+ books and Ebooks on World War Two German flying machines and their designers than anyone living or dead. He has interviewed dozens of former German aviation designers and gas turbine and rocket scientists throughout the 1980's in places such as West Germany, East Germany, France, USA, South America and other countries. He was also involved in the production of numerous TV documentaries such as the History Channel’s 2005 “Nazi Plan to Bomb New York” and the National Geographic TV Channel’s 2009 documentary “Hitler’s Stealth Fighter.” This featured the building of a full-scale replica of the Horten Ho 229 V3 by the Northrop Corporation and its radar cross section (RCS) testing at their classified radar test range in the California Mojave Desert.
