The Heinkel Lerche, meaning Lark, was the name of a set of project studies made by Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a vertical take-off and landing fighter and ground-attack aircraft. It was an early coleopter design that would take off and land sitting on its tail and then fly horizontally like a conventional aircraft, the pilot lying prone in the nose. Power would come from two contra-rotating propellers inside a doughnut-shaped, nine-sided annular wing. The design ran from 1944 to March 1945. Its aerodynamic principles were basically sound, but the proposal faced many unsolved manufacturing and control problems that would have made it highly impractical even without late-war material shortages. The Lerche II plan of 25 February 1945 called for two Daimler-Benz V-12 piston engines and two 30 millimetre cannon.
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The Heinkel Lerche (English: Lark) was the name of a set of project studies made by German aircraft designer Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a VTOL fighter and ground-attack aircraft.
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The Heinkel Lerche (English: Lark) was the name of a set of project studies made by German aircraft designer Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a VTOL fighter and ground-attack aircraft.
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was the name of a set of project studies made by German aircraft designer Heinkel
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The Heinkel Lerche (English: Lark) was the name of a set of project studies made by German aircraft designer Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a VTOL fighter and ground-attack aircraft.
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made by German aircraft designer Heinkel in 1944 and 1945
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The Heinkel Lerche (English: Lark) was the name of a set of project studies made by German aircraft designer Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a VTOL fighter and ground-attack aircraft.
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The Heinkel Lerche (English: Lark) was the name of a set of project studies made by German aircraft designer Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a VTOL fighter and ground-attack aircraft.
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