View source for Focke Wulf Fw-860

{{Unitinfo
| image=[[File:fw860_3d.gif|300px|Focke Wulf Fw-860]]
| type=[[Unit Types#Grdatk|Ground Attack]]
| owner=[[Germany]]
| year=1958

| length=10.8 m
| width=6.4 m
| height=
| weight=7.4 t
| speed= 

| armour=
| wep1=
}}

{{Box
|title=History
|content=


The Fw-860 was an unique VTOL aircraft designed in partnership between Focke Wulf and the French company SNECMA, the French version being known as the AP 519. While most VTOL design used lift fans or rotating engines to achieve vertical flight the Fw-860 instead would take off and land on it's tail, in a similar fashion to a rocket. This tail-sitting method while requiring complex landing gear had advantages of needing less complex VTOL engines, saving wight and space within the aircraft making it possible to produce a more compact design. A major problem with this design though is that the pilot's view is restricted to looking up vertically at the sky when taking-off/landing, to solve this the nose section of the Fw-860 would be able to rotate 90 degrees giving the pilot an unrestricted horizontal view. This unusual aircraft never left the concept stage and work instead moved to more traditional VTOL designs.    

       
}}


{{Timeframe

|postwar=yes
|totalwar=yes

}}


{{Gallery
|title=Gallery
|content=
image:fw860.jpg{{!}}
image:fw860_plan.jpg{{!}}
image:fw860_plan2.jpg{{!}}
image:fw860_01.jpg{{!}}
image:fw860_02.jpg{{!}}
image:fw860_03.jpg{{!}}
}}


{{Box
|title=Comments
|content=

<comments voting="Plus" />

}}


{{GermanyNav}}