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The
EMW A6 was designed by
Dr. Werner von Braun as an derivative of his original A4, better known
in the West as the V-2.
The A6 was to be a hypersonic research airplane. Although it was designed to launch vertically like a rocket, it would have landed horizontally like a conventional airplane. Primarily rocket-powered, the A-6 was also equipped with a ramjet engine intended to be ignited at high speeds. This would have provided the craft with 15 to 20 minutes of additional propulsion. The rocketplane was designed to have a pressurized cockpit, although no ejection scene was planned. To convert the A4 to the A6, the fuselage was extended, a landing gear/payload compartment was added, the ramjet and tank were attached and, of course, wings were included. Below: A6 period drawing
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Kit
part list:
1: front part/cokpit; 2: front wheel; 3: front wheel leg (metal); 4: front wheel door (plasticard); 5: control panel; 6: Canopy/hatch (vacu); 7: Canopy (clear vacu); 8/9: half body; 10: right wing; 11: left wing; 12: landing gear compartiment; 13: body doors (vacu or resin, 2 parts); 14: wings doors (plasticard, 2 parts); 15: metal rods; 16: plastic tube; 17: left and right wheel;18: rear body part; 19: engine compartiment, upper side; 20: engines compartiment, low side;21: vertical rudder; 22: nozzle; 23: rudder moveable part (3 parts); 24: Palets base (4 parts); 25: Palets (4 parts) |
