DFS 42
The DFS 42 "Kormoran" was a test aircraft of the German Research Institute for Glider Flight (DFS).
The aim of the design was to gain knowledge about the properties of strongly forward swept wings. In the book "A triangle flies" the machine is shown in flight and a three-sided view. This shows a high-set pendulum horizontal stabilizer and a wing with six flaps over the entire span, the horizontal stabilizer corresponded to that of the DFS Fafnir . Alexander Lippisch spoke of " that the bird had flown very well ". Otherwise little is known about the machine. The span should have been 14 m. Later projects such as the Junkers Ju 287 and a version of the Heinkel He 162 also received arrowheaded wings.
literature
- Alexander Lippisch, Fritz Trenkle : A triangle flies - the history of the Delta aircraft up to 1945 . Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-87943-467-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Späte: The top secret bird Me 163. Your pilots, their designers, their missions . Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-89555-142-2 .
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