ANT-7210
1/72 Blohm & Voss Bv P. 202 swing wing fighter
Product Description
| The project Bv P 202, dated on September 1944, provided an extremely innovative aerodynamic concept. The fuselage and power plant of the machine was largely similar to the P 198- two BMW 003 A jet engines were mounted under a slim conventional fuselage with the cockpit, armament bay, fuel tanks, etc. A conventional tail was fitted at the end of the fuselage. Quite novel was the variable geometry wing. The principle was clear: straight wings are good at low speeds, while swept wings are best at high speeds. Combination of both should provide an ideal aerodynamic solution, but paid for in the complicated design. Dr. Vogt, chief designer of Blohm & Voss Company, avoided some of the problems with adjustment of port and starboard wing movement by using a single piece wing on top of the fuselage and rotating it as a whole by the angle of 35 degrees. The resulting wing, sometimes called “scissor wing”, had its port wing swept backward and the starboard forward. The asymmetry was supposed to be balanced automatically by special control system. High position of the wing and the size of the engines under the fuselage resulted in the main undercarriage being attached to the wing, which in turn necessitated very long legs. In spite of the evidently experimental character of the aircraft, it was going to be armed with two 30 mm MK 108 cannon and a single 20 mm MG 151/20 in the nose of the fuselage. |
