Focke-Wulf Project II

The Focke-Wulf Project II was a German design study for a single-seat jet fighter, drawn up at Focke-Wulf during the Second World War. Rather than begin an all-new airframe, which the company expected to be slow to manufacture, the designers took the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 as a starting point and fitted a Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet beneath a redesigned fuselage, keeping a conventional tail and undercarriage. The low intake position raised the risk of the engine sucking up debris, and the jet exhaust would have burned the runway. As designed it had a wingspan of 9.70 metres, a length of 9.85 metres, a top speed of 825 kilometres per hour and a planned armament of two 30 millimetre and two 20 millimetre cannon. Work on the design ceased in March 1943, and the Project III layout followed as a way around the intake problem. It was never built.