WOW418 Weserflug P.1003

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Description

Description

The original design work on the two-seateR P.1003, began in 1938 by Weserflug.  The project objective was to design and build a military tilt-rotor aircraft with Vertical Take Off and Landing [VTOL] capabilities.

A monoplane with a conventional fuselage was powered by a single mid-mounted Daimler-Benz DB600 engine, fed by an air intake located in the aircraft nose.  The wings were set high in the fuselage, to enable ground clearance for the four-metre propellers and mounted at the wing tips were two large nacelles holding the propellers.  To take off, the entire outer wing would rotate 90 degrees to a vertical position, creating lift, similar to a helicopter.  Once airborne the outer wing would rotate 90 degrees to a horizontal position and fly as a conventional plane.  All the tail gear retracted into the fuselage

Problems with the complexity of the VTOL system led to the the aircraft never being built. However this concept did lead to the the USA developing Boeing V-22 Osprey in the 1980’s, some 40 years later later after the German concept. 
 
Our aircraft represent what ‘could have been’, in two different camouflage versions and armed with 2 heavy machine guns in the nose and rotating wings.

Limited to 3 with Green camouflage and 2 with Brown camouflage, worldwide, each of these unique flying machines is priced at $### plus postage.
The figures and accessories shown in the photos are for scale comparison purposes and are not included.

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