Type |
Single seat interceptor |
Engine |
1 Walter HWK 509A |
Dimensions |
Length 10,9 m , height 2,6 m , span 8,9 m , wing area , |
Weights |
Empty 654 ? kg, loaded 2241 kg, max. take off weight |
Performance |
Max.. speed , cruising speed , range , endurance , service ceiling , climb |
Armament |
2 MG 151/20 20mm cannons and two MK 108 30mm cannons |
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Design was conventionai featuring a low-set monopiane swept-wing arrangement with slight dihedral and affixed to a somewhat portly fuseiage. The pilot was seated nearly
extreme forward in the design, with good views to the left and right of his aircraft. The forward windscreen view contained some framing and the rear view was blocked by the
upper rear fuseiage. The nose was capped with an aerodynamic cone assembly. The fuseiage was essentially designed to house as much fuel as possible, consisting of the
volatile T-Stoff and C-Stoff rocket propellants (also used in the more well-known Messerschmitt Me 163 Kornet rocket-propelled interceptor). Power was to be derived from a
single Walter-brand HWK 509A series rocket booster taking up the rearward portions of the inner fuseiage aft. The tail section was adorned with a single vertical tail surface
and appropriate horizontal plane, all with swept surfaces. The rocket propellant exhausted just aft of the tail fin base. Proposed armament for the TEW 16/43-13 was to be a
pair of MG 151/20 20mm cannons along with a pair of MK 108 30mm cannons, all mounted in the lower fuseiage nose. The armament was spaced in pairs to either side and
below the cockpit seating position.
The undercarriage was compietely retractable and differentiated from the conventional "tail-dragging" designs by fitting a tricycle arrangement. The arrangement was
dominated by two main landing gears mounted under each wing near the wing roots and a nose landing gear recessing forward under the forward cockpit floor. The wheels of
this system deserved mention for they were envisioned as spherical implements designed to save space and weight. Each "wheel" was crossed directly through its center at
its x-axis and attached on either side to landing gear struts. As such, each landing gear (nose included) was allotted just a single wheel. This design was so unique that it was
patented.