Amerika-Bomber

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1. The Amerika-Bomber project was designed to strike America in anyway possible. The earliest concept was the highly unlikely and fantastic 'Huckepack-Projekt'. What did this entail? Releasing a Do-217 over the Artic for a one way bombing run A suborbital rocket plane bomber Carrying small "parasite" fighters armed with bombs Large conventinal bomber aircraft

2. Another solution to the problem of crossing the Atlantic was solved by convential bombers with extremely long-range capabilities. How many bomber types where proposed? Three Six Five Four

3. The Messerschmitt Me-264 was abandoned as a candidate for the Amerika-Bomber contest. Why? It had weak armor and the engines where prone to failure It was too expensive So Messerschmitt could focus on the Me-262 The payload was to small

4. The Focke-Wulf Fw 300 featured many novel design features. What aircraft was it based on? Fw-210 Captured B-17s Fw-200 He-177

5. The most radical of the four designs was the Ta 400. This was the second design from Focke-Wulf. What design feature that was also shared by an Allied aircraft made it a unique German bomber? Six independent landing gear units Its quadruple vertical tail surfaces Pressurized front and tail sections connected by a tunnel Triple bomb bays

6. The final design was the Ju-390, based on the Ju-290. What was the most novel defence feature of the bomber? Gasoline powered flamethrower-like turrets Carrying a Me 328 parasite fighter Pure speed Defensive rockets fired from units the wings

7. The next series of ideas were exotic flying wing types. The most feasible of the designs were the bombers made by the Horton brothers. Although they did not realize it at the time, their aircraft where the first what? First supersonic bombers First intercontental bombers Bombers capable of delivering a nuclear weapon True stealth aircraft

8. What was the main difference between the Ho XVIII "A" and "B" varients? Landing gear and defensive weaponry Number of engines and landing gear Number of engines and crew accommodation Offensive payload and internal structure

9. Possibly the most advanced and unlikely design was the Silbervogel 'space-plane' bomber. Who designed this advanced aircraft? Eugen Sanger Mistislav Keldysh Werner von Braun Fritz Sauter

10. Although the Amerika-Bomber project ended when Germany lost the war and no bombers where ever developed, what aircraft (or series of aircraft) directly benefitted from the research conducted by Amerika-Bomber scientist? B-52 Tu-160 B-1 B-2