The Heinkel AG VTOL "Lerche"

by David Myhra PhD

Overview

By mid 1944, the Allies were bombing Nazi Germany back to the stone age, especially targeting the Luftwaffe airbases, airports and their runways. The Luftwaffe planners thought that they had a solution for the bomb-cratered runways...a fighter-interceptor flying machine which could take-off and land vertically (VTOL), thus who needed runways? This is the story of a proposed VTOL, the "Lerche" or "Lark".

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014012935
Publisher:	RCW Technology & Ebook Publishing
Publication date:	02/10/2012
Series:	The Luftwaffe Project Design Board , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

• Dr. David O. Myhra, PHD, has written more books (30+) on World War Two German flying machines and their designers than anyone living or dead. He has interviewed dozens of former German aviation designers and gas turbine and rocket scientists throughout the 1980s in places such as West Germany, East Germany, France, the USA, South America and other countries. He was also involved in the production of numerous TV documentaries such as the History Channel’s 2005 “Nazi Plan To Bomb New York” and the National Geographic TV Channel’s 2009 documentary “Hitler’s Stealth Fighter.” (This featured the building of a full-scale replica of the Horten Ho 229 V3 by the Northrop Corporation and its radar cross section (RCS) testing at their classified radar test range in the California Mojave Desert.) Visit his website: