Focke-Wulf Ta 400

The Focke-Wulf Ta 400 was a large six-engined heavy bomber design developed in Nazi Germany in 1943 by Focke-Wulf as a serious contender for the Amerikabomber project. It was one of the first aircraft to be developed from components drawn from several countries and one of the most advanced Focke-Wulf designs of World War II, yet it never progressed beyond a wind tunnel model. Kurt Tank designed it as a bomber and long-range reconnaissance plane with a shoulder-mounted wing set at four degrees of dihedral. Its most striking feature was the set of six BMW 801D radial engines, to which two Jumo 004 jet engines were later added. As a paper design that was never built, it belongs among the unrealised long-range bomber projects of the war.