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Old 03-19-2018, 01:58 PM
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O.K....a clue...or two...more...

Good guess, but not the Do-335...

1) Twin engines...

2) monoplane...

3) Conventional layout, as we have come to know most designs...yet...

4) Quite un-conventional, when we think of a twin engined aircraft...

5) First flight was several years before the Do-335...

6) Intended as a fast, light bomber and recon aircraft...

7) It was an ambitious, and parhaps overly complicated design, which is is possably why only a couple of prototypes were made...

8) Although performance was quite good, it lost out to design(s) more favorable to mass production...

9) Liquid cooled engines...V-12's

10) An unusually large number of, for the time...(two and a half dozen) electric motors / actuators were used to drive the ancillaries...these are some of the complications I have mentioned above...(landing gear, flaps, cowl flaps, etc.)

11) Main landing gear rotated 90 degrees to fit flat / flush w/ under side of wing...

12) Crew of 2

13) First prototype was test flown with only one engine...

14) and...had skis (at least temporarily) fitted...

15) Had a small Bomb Bay ("emergency...come right away."..sorry...stupid "Bewitched" joke there...) in between the Pilot and GIB...(Guy In Back)

16) First version Empennage very similar to the Stuka V1's...twin fin/rudders...to give better field of fire to the GIB...