(robert arndt) wrote in message . com...
"Tamas Feher" wrote in message ...
the A-10 is actually a stolen WWII German design.

Correction: a hungarian design from 1944.

Except for slightly W-shaped wing, the plane looked just like the A-10.
It was powered by two Jumo or BMW made 8kN turbines. It was 3/4th
completed, when the factory was overrun by the front. Supposedly the
plane's parts and drawings were captured by the USA and hauled overseas.

The three-view drawing of the plane was featured on the back cover of a
1976 copy of the hungarian monthly paper "Repules". It was quite unusual
for a communist state-run paper to feature a nazi plane at that time.

... when were US troops overrunning Hungary in 1945? The only attack
aircraft 3/4+ finished that was to use either a Jumo 004 or BMW 003
that was captured was the Hs-132. It bears no resemblence to the A-10
and is NOT of hungarian origin.
The only aircraft captured by the Luftwaffe in Hungary were Zlin
aircraft, most of which were gliders and obsolete types. What
Hungarian design are you refering to in the news article? AFAIK, no
German jet engines were destined for any Hungarian project. Only Italy
and Japan were to recieve those. Regianne never got theirs and the
Japanese IIRC only recieved photos and manuals from which they built
indigenous copies.

Rob

The Hungarians may have had their own indigneous project. Don't
forget they did have the worlds first turboprop in the 1930s. It
worked but had problems with the combustion chamber burn through.
Someting that could only be solved with hard work on the test stand or
good alloys.