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edpanzer wrote:

wibblywobbly wrote:The Brits had created a jet engine pre-war, but when the war came along it was a matter of mass production of reliable aircraft.

By the end of the war we were looking at a different ballgame.

The Centurion had already been developed and was about to go into production?

The Germans were always ten steps ahead though:

http://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/de ... -XXI-Uboat



Add V2 development and the atomic bomb, long range supersonic bombers that could reach the USA, and the war had to be won when it was, as within months we would have had nothing to fight back with.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/jet_engine.htm
Let's be honest here the jet in the 262 was rubbish very unreliable and often needing replacement after one flight sir franks was far superior out of the box and while I'm sure looking at the German jet was interesting I doubt much was learned.

Apart from it was a working axial flow engine, which the British hadn't developed properly yet. Whittle's jet was a centrifugal flow jet which while more reliable and tolerant design in the end is inferior to axial flow engines. The German axial's were actually fantastic designs but they lacked an understanding and availability of the metals needed to make the blades. The main fault of all German aero engineering in WW2 is there poor turbos and superchargers which in turn led to somewhat inferior ability to produce the right metals for turbine blades.

Back to the E-100, there seems to be pictures of two hulls, one outside and one in the workshop. The one outside is slightly more complete than the one inside.

The turret was never built. Neither was a 2nd tank or in fact the tooling for production (it wasn't even being built at Henschel's primary factory). Just read Panzer Tracts 6-3, which uses primary sources. There are dozens of photos of it in that book and the documentation and drawings of it from Henschel and Krupp who designed and were to build it prior to cancellation.

In 1946 a number of senior German scientist's while being held in a large country house in England which was extensively bugged, they were played film of the Atomic Bomb testing prior to the dropping of the Uranium Bomb and the Plutonium Bomb over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the final weapon test at Trinity at Alamagordo, New Mexico before deployment to Colonel Tibberts Heavy bomber (B29) Squadron, The voiced declaration was that Germany was nowhere near creating a working Atomic weapon,
The irony is that we, the Allies had the bomb and they the Axis had the delivery system.(V2)
The failure of German Jet Engines was primarily because the coating needed to add strength and extend service life was not available within the borders of of any country within the Greater Reich, at that time the only metal able to do the job was Chromium and at that time it was being mined in Southern Africa and the Soviet Union as well as the United States.
Germany flew the first Jet powered aircraft the Heinkel He 178 the British Gloster Whittle flew later,
as to who invented the jet engine I fear it appears to come down to whose side you are on, I have seen conflicting dates from both German and British sources,
but the difference was that first ROVER was given an Engine contract which was later after much shouting given to Rolls Royce,
Because Ernst Heinkel was no ardent Nazi unlike Willi Messeschmidt who was, there was no development contract and progress stalled until it was too late, when in the middle of the War when it was being realised that Germany might lose, then aircraft builders who had a good relationship with the Party were offered contracts to build advanced Aircraft and Power units,
Pure Jet. Rocket and Turbo Prop engines at the forefront
Their engineering was top class the inability to obtain the correct material was the major failing along with a political system that promoted distrust and the leadership changed policy almost by the day.shaun