- Lippisch P.15
The Lippisch P.15 was a prototype
World War II Germanfighter aircraft . Similar to theLippisch P.20 design of 1943, the P.15 was another attempt to produce a suitableturbojet powered fighter from theMe 163 rocket fighter. In this case however,Alexander Lippisch designed a hybrid aircraft composed of the nose section of theHeinkel 162 , the wings and tail of the Me 163C, a newly designed rear fuselage, and landing gear adapted from theBf 109 . Power was to be supplied by a singleHeinkel HeS 011 A turbojet contained within the rear fuselage, which was fed by two intakes buried in the wing roots.Never leaving the drawing board, the design could well have made a suitable jet fighter, but Lippisch was never considered a credible aircraft engineer of the likes of
Willy Messerschmitt orKurt Tank , which coupled with the worsening war situation to doom all of his late war projects to fail.External links
* [http://www.luft46.com/lippisch/lip15.html Luft '46 Article on the P.15]
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