Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein

The Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein was a design for a jet-powered fighter intended to succeed the Messerschmitt Me 262 and other day fighters of the Luftwaffe in the Second World War. It was developed only as far as wind tunnel models when the war ended. The Reich Air Ministry started the Emergency Fighter Program on 3 July 1944, and a Focke-Wulf team under Kurt Tank, led by Hans Multhopp, produced the swept-wing design, named after a troublesome raven in a story by Wilhelm Busch. It was meant to use the Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet, with the first prototypes on the Junkers Jumo 004B, and sixteen prototypes were planned. A first flight was projected for May 1945, but British troops captured the Focke-Wulf facilities on 8 April 1945. The basic design was developed after the war in Argentina as the FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II.