nt (Krztalizer) wrote in message ...
The Jägerstaß didn't even allocate funding for a mockup, let alone a flying
example. By the point in the war when this was really moving forward, the SS
had taken over 'strategic aircraft' production and ordered most other projects
halted - but centralized control was deteriorating and many aviation companies
kept building whatever they were used to, using up additional critical war
resources, while such things as the 183 project danced in their heads. The
BAMA archiv has lots of info on the final couple of months and nothing suggests
a successful test flight, or even a wrk. n., being assigned to an airframe of
this type.

v/r
Gordon
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USN SAR

Donate your memories - write a note on the back and send your old photos to a
reputable museum, don't take them with you when you're gone.

At the beginning of March 1945, with the award of a contract to build
a prototype, the aircraft recieved the RLM type number 8-183. The
fuselage and vertical tail were to be constructed of steel and
Duraluminum; the wings and horizontal tail surfaces of wood. The data
are taken from specification sheet JP.011.018a "Single jet fighter
with HeS 011a" of 18th February 1945.
NOTE: This is considered Design II (Design I being the Fw Flitzer and
Design III a second alternative Ta 183).
Focke-Wulf began with the construction of the Ta 183V-1. Powered by
the Jumo 004, this first prototype was also to be used to test the
Design III tail unit. The maiden flight of this aircraft was scheduled
for May/June 1945. If a production contract followed, Focke-Wulf
planned to have the first production machines completed by October
1945.
On 8th April 1945 British troops took over Focke-Wulf's design
department at Bad Eilsen.

- "Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Fighters 1939-1945" by Walter Schick and
Ingolf Meyer (1994/7)

Although there has never been any proof that the Ta 183V-1 was
actually constructed it is known that the Soviets got a complete set
of plans for the aircraft and turned them over to MiG. The MiG 15
didn't happen by chance you know.
Parts of the Ta 183, however, were said to be completed (as were those
of Heinkel's own He-343 jet bomber).

Rob