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	Sänger "Silverbird" Orbital Bomber
		The Sänger Amerika Bomber (or Orbital Bomber, Antipodal Bomber or Atmosphere Skipper) was designed for supersonic, stratospheric flight.
		Whether the ‘Amerika Bomber’ would have worked will never be known; the concept was way too far ahead of available technology to have had much chance of success, particularly in terms of avionics.
		Most sources indicate that nothing much came of the Amerika Bomber project at Lofer, but this is clearly not the case.
	greyfalcon.us /Sanger.htm (1641 words)

	Sänger Amerika Bomber Luft '46 entry
		The Sänger Amerika Bomber (or Orbital Bomber, Antipodal Bomber or Atmosphere Skipper) was designed for supersonic, stratospheric flight (please see diagram below).
		After the war, he was asked to work (along with mathematician Irene Bredt) for the French Air Ministry, where in a bizarre plot, he was almost kidnapped by Stalin, who recognized the value of the Amerika Bomber.
		A wind tunnel model of the Sänger Amerika Bomber, which is still in existence today....
	www.luft46.com /misc/sanger.html (800 words)

	My Tank is Fight
		The Amerika Bomber, had it ever passed the prototyping stage, would have been propelled into the air by a massive 600-ton thrust liquid fuel rocket.
		The Amerika Bomber was to be mounted on a monorail dolly that also mounted the booster unit.
		History: Hopes for the Amerika Bomber faded around the time Germany invaded the Soviet Union, which was probably to the advantage of the Germans as the whole thing was ridiculous.
	www.somethingawful.com /articles.php?a=1226 (2784 words)

	PROJECT 1947: German Hypersonic Bomber Prototype? - Joel Carpenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1944, Sänger and Bredt were moved to a fantastic, isolated laboratory complex in the mountains near Lofer, Austria, where a number of bizarre research projects were underway, including impractical devices such as the infamous "sound cannon" and "wind cannon" and an electromagnetic railgun.
		This project paralleled in some respects the equally impressive Peenemunde concept for a two-stage version of the V-2, the A-9/10, that was also intended to strike New York and other northeast US cities.
		Most sources indicate that nothing much came of the Amerika Bomber project at Lofer, but this is clearly not the case.
	www.project1947.com /gfb/antiplofer.htm (933 words)

	Boeing X-20 DynaSoar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The new vehicle would be called the ‘Amerika Bomber’ and would take-off by being propelled down a 1.9 mile long monorail track by a rocket powered sled that could deliver 600 tons of thrust for 11 secs and propel the vehicle to Mach 1.5.
		After take-off the ‘Amerika Bomber’ would fire its main engine for 8 mins burning 90 tons of fuel before reaching a speed of 13,700 mph and a altitude of 90 miles.
		Whether the ‘Amerika Bomber’ would have worked will never be known, but I suspect that the concept was way too far ahead of available technology to have had much chance of success, particularly in terms of avionics.
	www.spyflight.co.uk /dynasoar.htm (1144 words)

	Amerika Bomber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Amerika Bomber project was an initiative of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the Nazi Germany Air Ministry, to obtain a long-range bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the continental United States from Germany.
		Requests for designs were made to the major German aircraft manufacturers early in World War II, long before the US had entered the war.
		The most promising proposals were based on conventional principles of aircraft design and would have yielded aircraft very similar in configuration and capability to the Allied heavy bombers of the day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amerika_Bomber (338 words)

	Forgotten Battles: The Weapons: The Sänger Amerika Project
		The Sänger Amerika bomber was one of these.
		The Sänger Amerika Bomber (or Orbital Bomber, Atmosphere Skipper) was designed for supersonic flight in the stratosphere.
		After the war, some of the Silverbird research papers were captured by the Allies and taken to other research facilities. As for Dr Sänger, he later did some work for the French Air Ministry and was almost kidnapped by the Soviets, who obviously realized the Silverbird's potential, both for scientific and military applications.
	www.geocities.com /pentagon/bunker/3351/germweps/sanger.html (653 words)

	The WWII Fighter Gun Debate: Defensive Armament
		The bombers were exposed to the German light anti-aircraft artillery, which was very effective, and the proper tactics for escort fighters still needed to be developed.
		Evidently, a bomber that relied purely on high performance was vulnerable to technical developments; but the Mosquito was a brilliant design, and remained extremely difficult to intercept throughout the war.
		In the 1950s bombers had the additional advantage that the rapid drag rise in the transsonic region made it very difficult for fighters to be much faster than the bombers.
	users.skynet.be /Emmanuel.Gustin/fgun/fgun-de.html (7266 words)

	Recommended Books on World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All fighter, bomber and ground-attack aircraft used by the air forces of World War II are featured in this comprehensive directory.
		Boeing's B-17 was the USAAF's primary heavy bomber for the first three years of the war.
		He describes the role of the bombers, that of the fighters, the anti-aircraft defenses, even the technique of obscuring the Ploesti complex with smoke.
	www.ww2guide.com /books.shtml (3139 words)

	Amerika bomber
		Sangers design of which you speak was not the 'Amerika Bomber' merely a hypothetical suggestion of a solution to the whole concept of a bomber that could reach America and return to Germany.
		Actually, I agree with the other guy, the Amerika Bomber encompassed several different designs, all of them normal aeroplanes (well, as much as the Horten can be called normal) and the programme was an attempt to create any bomber capable of reaching America.
		More scary then Amerika Bomber (the flying wing one) which they might have produced if they had more time, was the payload it was going to deliever.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread176849/pg1 (1663 words)

	Payne's Model Pages
		FW's second proposal to meet a RLM requirement for a jet bomber to carry 1000kg of bombs 1000 kilometers at 1000 kilometers per hour.
		A wooden mockup of the this promising design had been completed before war's end, and its influence can be seen on British post-war jets such as the DH Vampire.
		A proposed jet dive bomber using a prone pilot couch to help reduce G-strain on the pilot during pull-up.
	www.inpayne.com /models/models_projekts.html (935 words)

	Airdisaster.Com Forums - Junkers Ju-287 was Nazi A-bomber
		These were all picked up by Wellington bombers acting as early AEW aircraft.
		You have to remember that by 1944 the entire Western and Pacific coastlines of USA were being patrolled by fighters and there was a chain of radar stations errected along the US coast during the war.
		The V weapons were harder to defend against and the chances of a V-2 with an A-bomb succeeding would have been greater than if they risked a bomber squadron.
	www.airdisaster.com /forums/showthread.php?t=73396 (1799 words)

	WWII In Color :: View topic - German Secret Weapons
		The Amerika Bomber, had it ever passed the prototyping stage, would have been propelled into the air by a massive 600-ton thrust liquid fuel rocket.
		The Amerika Bomber was to be mounted on a monorail dolly that also mounted the booster unit.
		History: Hopes for the Amerika Bomber faded around the time Germany invaded the Soviet Union, which was probably to the advantage of the Germans as the whole thing was ridiculous.
	www.ww2incolor.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=19702 (3001 words)

	Horten Ho 18 A Luft '46 entry
		This bomber was to be able to fly from Germany to New York City and back without refueling.
		The Hortens were told to make a presentation for their Amerika Bomber design on Febuary 25, 1945 in Berlin.
		A few days later the Hortens were told to report to Reichsmarshall Göring, who wanted to talk to the brothers personally about their proposed Amerika Bomber.
	www.luft46.com /horten/ho18a.html (677 words)

	Messerschmitt Me 264 Book Review by Brett Green (Classic Publications)
		The definitive work to date on the Messerschmitt Me 264; excellent coverage of the Amerika Bomber concept, development, testing and its competitors; readable and interesting text; packed with factory drawings and translated excerpts from official documents; high quality artwork; attractive layout.
		The bleak truth of the situation, however, did not prevent optimism for the concept in Germany, and anxiety about the existence of an Amerika Bomber throughout US and British intelligence communities.
		The reality was that Germany could not afford to build a fleet of these long-range bombers and, in any case, that the Luftwaffe's experience with their heaviest operational bomber, the Heinkel He 177, was fraught with mechanical and technical failures, and limited operational advantages over medium bombers or large maritime aircraft adapted to specialist roles.
	misc.kitreview.com /bookreviews/me264bookreviewbg_1.htm (416 words)

	COMBATSIM.COM: Secret Weapons of The Luftwaffe - Part III
		The Horton Ho 18-A flying wing was chosen as the Amerika Bomber.
		A suspended explosive charge on a cable was considered but it necessitated the removal of one of the two Mk 108 30 mm cannon with its 35 rounds.
		Vogt worked on secret delta-wing bombers with nuclear propulsion that were cancelled due to unsolvable difficulties with the airborne reactors.
	www.combatsim.com /memb123/htm/2001/10/swotl03 (2581 words)

	HORTEN HO XVIII A
		In 1944 the RLM issued a requirement for an aircraft with a range of 11000 km (6835 miles) and a bomb load of 4000 kg (8818 lbs).
		The Hortens were told to make a presentation for their Amerika Bomber design on Febuary 25, 1945 in Berlin.
		A few days later the Hortens were told to report to Reichsmarshall Göring, who wanted to talk to the brothers personally about their proposed Amerika Bomber.
	lucariny.sites.uol.com.br /Ho18A.htm (639 words)

	Attacks and Threats
		Guam, an American outpost in the Mariana Islands, was air raided on Dec 7 by bombers from Saipan.
		The Ju 390 was a prototype high altitude, heavy bomber flown in 1943 from Bordeaux, occupied France, to New York City and returned.
		It was developed from the Ju 90 four engine bomber and the Ju 290 bomber/reconnaissance/transport.
	www.ww2pacific.com /attacks.html (3934 words)

	Uncle Ted's ADC Collection: Luftwaffe
		German bomber aircraft that interested me are now available for download in a PDF file (210 Kb):
		The He111H bombers that darkened the skies from Bristol to the Baltic, from Narvik to North Africa did not spring fully formed from the head of Zeus (or Heinkel).
		Messerschmitt Me264 Amerika bomber - designed as a maritime bomber (from a long range research aircraft) that had the range to reach cities on teh US east coast and return.
	uncleted.jinak.cz /ADC_luft.htm (2400 words)

	Me 264 Amerika ("Amerika Bomber") - Sim-Outhouse Forums
		The Me 264 Amerika (America) was a long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft developed by Messerschmitt during World War II for the Luftwaffe.
		The design was later selected as a competitor in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium's (the German Air Ministry) "Amerika Bomber" programme, which intended to develop a strategic bomber capable of attacking New York City from bases in Germany, although it is highly doubtful that this would have been achieved with a meaningful payload, if at all.
		Any attack by the "Amerika" bomber would be doomed to failure and we would not even have to fire a shot.
	www.sim-outhouse.com /sohforums/showthread.php?threadid=38758 (5011 words)

	amerika - Ask.com Web Search
		Amerika, also known as Der Verschollene or The Man Who Disappeared, was the incomplete first novel of author Franz Kafka, published...
		Mark Amerika's web site GRAMMATRON, was selected as one of the first works of Internet art to ever be exhibited in the prestigious Whitney...
		That having been said, part of the humor of Amerika is seemingly unintended and is rooted in Kafka's fantastic visions of what he seems to...
	www.ask.com /web?q=amerika (291 words)

	Junkers Ju 390 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Junkers Ju 390 was a long-range derivative of the Junkers Ju 290 and was intended to be used as a heavy transport, maritime patrol aircraft, and bomber.
		The maritime patrol version and bomber were to be designated Ju 390 B and Ju 390 C respectively.
		It was suggested that the bomber could have carried the Messerschmitt Me 328 parasite fighter for self-defence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junkers_Ju_390 (906 words)

	Ju-287 Jet Bomber - Aircraft of World War II - Warbird Forums
		The problem with the G-loadings is that 3G is a very usual load (you need that for recovering from a shallow dive f.e.), even with some safety margin, each out of order flight condition may cause considerable damage to the airframe, no to speak about damage related to gunfire in dogfights.
		Junkers was also in the Amerika Bomber fray with their early 1945 tailless design.
		Junkers designers quickly came up with their spin on what the Amerika Bomber should be like.
	ww2aircraft.net /forum/aviation/ju-287-jet-bomber-5614.html#post196854 (5996 words)

	Faux DC! - Golden Age Titles - Crime Crusaders Comics #5
		I recommend long-range bombers of the Condor-type; with the modifications I propose it can easily be converted into a specialized 'Amerika bomber'.
		Meanwhile, Captain X descends over the bomber, Jenny matching its speed and extending a grapplehook to connect with the larger plane.
		The bomber starts to lose altitude, and Captain X removes a control unit from his hip, beaming his special control ray at Jenny.
	www.fauxdc.com /Titles/goldenage/crimecrusaders/ccc-5.htm (1743 words)

	Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums - Amerika Bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sanger orbital bomber was to be launched with a booster connected to its tail.It was not a one way mission,it was indeed supposed to land on its landing wheels.
		I thought the Amerika Bomber was a six engined derivative of the Horten IX.
		In fact, i think the Horten flying-wing bomber designs were not drawn to the Amerika Bomber specifications, but for the 1000x1000x1000 bomber, which was another one of the ambitious Nazi German projects now conveniently piled together as the Luft '46 designs.
	forum.keypublishing.com /archive/index.php?t-25955.html (1549 words)

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		In 1942, a prototype Me-264 four engine "Amerika Bomber," was flown from Germany, across the Atlantic, non-stop and unrefueled, to within sight of New York City's lights.
		This bomber flew faster than the interceptors we had stateside, and, had it been manufactured in large numbers, could have given Americans a taste of what the British had received.
		Although chemical warfare was not deployed by either of the fighting factions, the population had to be prepared for the worst.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~vg/amst205.S97/vj23/project5a.html (906 words)

	The Horten Flying Wings I
		Like today's B-2 Stealth bomber (and unlike Jack Northrop's designs), the Go-229 had a comparatively slender airfoil, with the crew and engines housed in dorsal humps, and its jet exhaust was vented onto the top surface of the wing.
		This huge, six-engined nurflugel was supposed to carry an atomic bomb to New York or Washington, despite the fact that the bomb was mostly theoretical, the engines probably couldn't have lasted the journey, and the plane couldn't possibly have been completed before Germany surrendered.
		There is barely enough room for all three of the retractible wheels, due mainly to the large oversize nosewheel (that was a tailwheel of a Dornier bomber scarfed from a boneyard).
	www.warbirdforum.com /horten.htm (1251 words)

	Special Hobby's 1/72 Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerika Bomber
		The Me 264 came about through a requirement for a bomber capable of taking the war to the United States by bombing East Coast cities.
		The streamlined appearance of the plane gave it an attractive, graceful look both on the ground and in the air.
		As successful as it might have been in its original role, it was quickly squashed as an intercontinental bomber and relegated to maritime reconnaissance roles.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2002/april/first-looks/specialhobby_me264.htm (238 words)

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