Nazi German projects for long-range bomber aircraft
Amerikabomber
The Messerschmitt Me 264 V1 (first prototype Me 264)
General information
Project for
Long-range strategic bomber
Issued by
Reich Air Ministry
Service
Luftwaffe
Proposals
Focke-Wulf, Heinkel, Junkers, and Messerschmitt (conventional bombers)
Prototypes
Focke-Wulf Ta 400 Heinkel He 277 (after February 1943) Junkers Ju 390 Messerschmitt Me 264.
History
Initiated
April 1942
Concluded
July 1944, with the Jägernotprogramm.
Outcome
Five prototypes (two Ju 390, three Me 264) built, no operational aircraft
Predecessors
Ural bomber
The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber) project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the United States (specifically New York City) from Germany, a round-trip distance of about 11,600 km (7,200 mi). The concept was raised as early as 1938, but advanced plans for such a long-range strategic bomber design did not begin to appear before Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring until early 1942. Various proposals were put forward, but these plans were all eventually abandoned as they were too expensive, too reliant on rapidly diminishing materiel and production capacity, and/or technically infeasible.
The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber) project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) to obtain a long-range...
to be an Amerikabomber candidate, to be powered with four BMW 801 radial engines and up to 11,000 km range. Junkers Ju 390 – an Amerikabomber candidate...
competitor in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium's (the German Air Ministry) Amerikabomber (America Bomber) programme, for a strategic bomber capable of attacking...
intended for it at first, the He 277 design became Heinkel's entry in the Amerikabomber programme for a long range bomber that could reach North America. For...
bomber. It was one of the aircraft designs submitted for the abortive Amerikabomber project, along with the Messerschmitt Me 264, the Focke-Wulf Ta 400...
"rocket bomber"). It was one of a number of designs considered for the Amerikabomber project, which started in the spring of 1942, being focused solely on...
Gablenz in May 1942, concerning the suitability of aircraft for the Amerikabomber contract competition as that proposal first appeared, Generalfeldmarschall...
the Horten H.XVIII, an intercontinental bomber that was part of the Amerikabomber project, and a prototype for a smaller version was ordered for the 1000...
in May 2020. In the late 1930s, the German government launched the "Amerikabomber" project, and Eugen Sanger's idea, together with mathematician Irene...
designs, such as the Horten H.VII fighter-trainer and the Horten H.XVIII Amerikabomber. According to the aviation historian Jean-Denis G.G. LePage, various...
into the May 1943 revised fuselage design, for what became the Heinkel Amerikabomber design contract competitor, the He 277, for its revised fuselage design...
A-series He 177 by February 1943, one of these being the Heinkel firm's Amerikabomber candidate, only one, the He 177B, emerged in the concluding months of...
Amerika Bomber competing designs. It used six engines, as with the later Amerikabomber design competitors, to compensate for nearly all German aircraft engines...
daughter, Yoriko Asakura, buried some of Fujita's ashes at the bomb site. Amerikabomber Bombardment of Fort Stevens Fu-Go balloon bomb Operation K As well as...
designs, notably the Focke-Wulf Fw 238, the Focke-Wulf Ta 400 six-engined Amerikabomber design competition competitor, and other large bombers. The big, 6-BMW...
his firm's failed Heinkel He 177A heavy bomber — including an unbuilt Amerikabomber design - until the war's end concluded the production of the firm's...
tricycle gear arrangement for the four-BMW 801E radial-engine powered Amerikabomber entry version of the proposed He 277 by February 1943, which was also...
hares"; slang for military veterans who survived front-line hardships. Amerikabomber – A spring 1942 aviation contract competition for a Luftwaffe trans-oceanic...
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Focke-Wulf Fw 191 Heinkel He 277 (as designed for Amerikabomber role) Junkers Ju 88 Junkers Ju 188 Junkers Ju 288 (as temporary fitment...
reconnaissance + night-fighter, 1943. Junkers Ju 390, six-engine long-range Amerikabomber competitor (prototype) developed from Ju 290, 1943. Junkers Ju 452,...
States", in a period about a year before the May 1942 emergence of the Amerikabomber trans-oceanic range strategic bomber design competition. The one country...
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