German Secret Projects of WW2 Vol. 4

Focke Wulf Ta283
The Focke Wulf Ta283 was a design for a ramjet-powered fighter. It had a long slender fuselage and pointed nose. The cockpit was faired in to the leading edge of the large vertical fin. It was planned to use a Walter HWK rocket engine for take-off and two Pabst ramjets once operating speed was reached. The 45 degree swept wings were mounted low on the fuselage. The ramjets were located on the ends of the swept tailplanes to minimise airflow disturbance around the tail. Armament would have been provided by a pair of MK 108 30mm cannon.

Focke Wulf with Jumo 222 E/F
Looking remarkably similar to the Dornier P247 design, Focke Wulf produced two proposals for the high performance fighter requirement of July 1944. The two designs were for all intents and purposes, the same with each designed to accommodate a different powerplant. These being the Argus As413 and as shown here the Jumo 222E/F. The engine was mounted in the aft portion of the fuselage driving a pusher prop at the cruciform tail via a shaft. The radiator was fuselage mounted with a fan drawing air from wing root intakes and exhausting through an annular slot. The design also featured swept wings and a tricycle undercarriage.

Heinkel P1078C
During January and February 1945, Heinkel worked on this advanced looking proposal which resembled the Blohm and Voss P212. The design was of a tail-less configuration with wooden swept back wings and downturned wing tabs intended to function as the tailplane. The all-metal fuselage was rather squat and the nose, rectangular in cross section. The design gave many problems to the designer, Siegfried Gunter arranging all the components to fit into such a small compact fuselage. The RLM decided that flight characteristics would have been unsatisfactory and there were doubts about the nose wheel housing, after which Heinkel ceased all further work on the design.