These all tend towards the same design, don’t they? Pretty much take a F-106, stick a ventral fin on it, and away we go.
At least the post-war Luftwaffe had some originality in their designs; if you like the jet intakes on the F-105, you’ll love the ones on the Me-X1-21: http://www.aiaa.org/tc/vstol/unbuilt/me/images/me_x1_3.jpg
Heinkel’s He-231 looks like the thing that crashed into the Mediterranean with the Ymir on board in “20 Million Miles To Earth”: http://www.aiaa.org/tc/vstol/unbuilt/he/images/he_231t_3.jpg
These all tend towards the same design, don’t they? Pretty much take a F-106, stick a ventral fin on it, and away we go.
At least the post-war Luftwaffe had some originality in their designs; if you like the jet intakes on the F-105, you’ll love the ones on the Me-X1-21:
http://www.aiaa.org/tc/vstol/unbuilt/me/images/me_x1_3.jpg
Heinkel’s He-231 looks like the thing that crashed into the Mediterranean with the Ymir on board in “20 Million Miles To Earth”:
http://www.aiaa.org/tc/vstol/unbuilt/he/images/he_231t_3.jpg
Pat