I believe the very influential German Engineer Max Mueller designed
the first turboprop engine that went into production (for a test
program) in 1942 most likely under Heinkel.

Wasn't he on the team that laid out the installation of turboprops for a
three-seat nightfighter 262? I think that project was as futuristic as
anything hatched in the furtile minds of the wartime air industry. I have
copies of some of the engineering line studies that the same group of designers
dreamt up. They were getting mighty creative at finding ways to keep busy as
the Ostfront lept closer and sucked up more men; the different methods of
airborne search equipment and new technologies into that aircraft - the most
important improvement to the "Interim Nightfighter" could be turboprop engines
to enable better thrust response, a vital improvement over the touchy Jumos.
Never got built though. It would have made a fine museum piece.

Still holding out hope that someday, I will be handed a photograph of the
remains of a similar "Nazi" secret weapon, the HG III nightfighter, completed
just in time for capture but never seen again... vanished... Would -love- to
see a faded, age-yellowed Agfa print photograph of that particular airframe: I
imagine it laying crumpled in a heap among a few junked Me 262s from the summer
of 45, when they joined all the other suddenly obsolete Luftwaffe warplanes -
in junkpiles. I know some GI somewhere has a photo of himself leaning against
the rotting hulk of the HGIII - I just have to wait to see it.

Or Dave could get off his duff and find it for me. If he was a REAL friend, he
would.

v/r
Gordon
(my guess is that I will find the whole damn thing on Ebay, some day in the
future)