Friday, October 14, 2005
Friday Night Airplane Blogging
Tonights plane is one of the true oddities of airplane development in WWII or any other time. The Blohm & Voss BV-141 was the product of a shipbuilde rthat was well known as a builder of flying boats. The asymmetrical BV-141 was an attempt to create a very stable reconnaisance aircraft, and it worked. The aerodynamics of the offset pilot and crew compartment nicely cancelled the torque of the single engine to provide an easy handling stable platform for aerial photography. Sadly, the Luftwaffe was not ready for something this radical in design and only 13 were built. None survived the war
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