BMW Strahljäger II

The BMW Strahljäger II was a German jet fighter design of the Second World War that never left the drawing board. Like its siblings it was drawn up in November 1944 by the engineer Huber at EZS, a BMW subsidiary, as part of a small advertising effort to show off the BMW 003 turbojet at a time when aircraft makers had lost interest in BMW engines. A single BMW 003 powered the aircraft, with its air intake in the nose below the cockpit. Unlike the first Strahljäger, the second was worked up in several variants: the cockpit was drawn either for a seated pilot or for a prone one, and the wings were drawn either long or short. The armament was probably two MK 103 30 mm cannons mounted in the wings, and the single pilot is the only crew named.