BMW Strahljäger I

The BMW Strahljäger I was a German jet fighter design of the Second World War, drawn up in November 1944 by the engineer Huber at EZS, a subsidiary of BMW. It was one of a small group of aircraft projects that BMW put forward to demonstrate and advertise its BMW 003 turbojet, an engine whose development had run late into the war while aircraft makers were already turning to other power plants. The design used a single BMW 003 mounted on top of the fuselage behind the cockpit, with the air intake in the nose beneath the cockpit and the exhaust leaving above the tail boom. It had a retractable tricycle undercarriage, a twin-fin tail, a single pilot and an armament of two cannons, which Portuguese sources give as 30 mm MK 108 guns. The sources record no aircraft built.