Hütter Hü 136 (how did this even fly?

The Hü 136 design was highly innovative, with the pilot sitting far to the rear of the aircraft, his cockpit forming part of the vertical tail surface. Like the later Me 163 Komet, the design had no undercarriage, with a jettisonable dolly for takeoff and a retractable skid for landing. To overcome the likelihood of contact between the propeller and the ground on landing, the propeller would be blown off before landing and descend separately by parachute.

Also, that little red square is a cockpit window.

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miloz13@reddit

Basically a suicide-mission bomber: the pilot wasn't supposed to see what would kill him.

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GayRacoon69@reddit

Do you happen to be at the military aviation museum in Virginia Beach?

I believe this was a design that was never actually built and this is just a recreation. If you ever go back the docents will probably have an explanation. I can't remember what this was supposed to do

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f-14guy@reddit (OP)

Yes

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GayRacoon69@reddit

I could recognize the hanger

If you go during the summer they actually fly these things. I saw a yak-9 doing a test flight last I was there but they do weekly airshows in the summer

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TheOnlyHashtagKing@reddit

I think they're almost done with their c46 restoration too. Lots of beautiful old birds out there.

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GayRacoon69@reddit

Yeah it's a great place. I love the oil pans under all the planes. It really makes them feel like real machines instead of just museum places

It's also cool that nothing's fenced off. I love the feel of walking underneath a B25 to get a closer look at a 109 or weaving between a Catalina and a T34 to see the back of something. It's sick

I've had a lot of unique opportunities there. The commemorative air force flew an R4D there and I got a chance to ride in it. I also once got to the inside the maintenance hanger because I joined a special tour of helicopter cops. Usually it's off limits to the public. I was there with my mom. Neither of us were cops we just happened to be there and I was sticking close so I could listen to the docents. They just invited us to join the tour and that included the maintenance hanger

Great museum, great planes, great staff

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Shaun_Jones@reddit

This was designed to be a Stuka replacement, which explains the vision slits, this thing would have been anl fully armored. But all that armor meant it had to be small if it wanted any hope of being able to fly, so it was dolly-launched like the Me-163 and was just big enough to haul a 500-kg bomb; it would have landed on a skid after dropping the propeller to prevent it being damaged.

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TheOnlyHashtagKing@reddit

Posting this but not the p13 out front is diabolical

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onehotoneshot@reddit

Vibes based aerodynamics

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cmprssnrtfct@reddit

That's Fascism on the whole, actually. Romantic ideas about violence and will that then fall apart when faced with reality.

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Squrton_Cummings@reddit

This is totally anti-fascist, these engineers heroically diverted resources that might otherwise have contributed to an effective weapons system.

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tula23@reddit

More like Meth based aerodynamics haha

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Jolly-Magazine-5430@reddit

Most of the goofy experimental aircraft in that hanger are giant reproduction models, been there

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pistaroti@reddit

hangar, hangar. hanger is for a coat

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Jolly-Magazine-5430@reddit

everyone calls it a hanger bro

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PinkFloydBoxSet@reddit

With enough thrust, everything flies.

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Atholthedestroyer@reddit

*See the US 'Century' series of jets

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MantoTerror@reddit

The Luftwaffe 1946 website has a bunch of these...

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Chad-Daybell@reddit

Is that an upside down Salamander behind it?

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Ketil_b@reddit

Don't know about flying, but landing it seems fun.

"To overcome the likelihood of contact between the propeller and the ground on landing, the propeller would be blown off before landing and descend separately by parachute." - Wiki

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Dont_Care_Meh@reddit

So much for a go-around. When you commit to a landing, no room to try again.

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bearlysane@reddit

My favorite part is the minuscule vision slits that render the pilot utterly blind. Mercifully, they wouldn’t see the fighter that shot them down, or, for that matter, the ground that they crashed into.

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Zakmackraken@reddit

By hanging it from a cable, if you look closely you can see it.

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jar1967@reddit

It never got off the drawing board. The Nazis weren't even desperate enough to put it into production

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ShamScience@reddit

It's not flying, it's just hanging from the roof.

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Murky_Digger@reddit

Probably because someone censored historical facts with a shoddy black edit

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earl_of_lemonparty@reddit

Yeah I don't get this either. This isn't Facebook where your account will get locked, show it for what it is. If we censor history we will be doomed to repeat it.

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