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attempt to fly AS-6 V-1 was undertaken in April 1944 it became evident that the wings were too short to compensate for the engine’s torque and so AS-6 V-1 had to be banked hard to the left. No more flights were attempted and Baltabol recommended wind tunnel tests and a new engine. During the summer of 1944 I./JG 400 took over the Brandis airfield as a base for Me 163B rocket fighter operations. Their main function was to protect the massive chemical plant operated by I G Farben at Merseburg. This was the Reich’s main production centre for synthetic fuel and it was of crucial impor- tance to the German war effort. Apparently, some members of I./JG 400 discovered AS-6 V-1 in a hangar and Oberleutnant Franz Réssle (regarded by many of his fellow offi- cers as something of a daredevil) tried to fly the aircraft (possibly with Sack’s approval). But the undercarriage was badly damaged when it ran over some rough ground and AS-6 V1 was subsequently returned to storage. _ Ernst Heinkel, founder of Heinkel Aviation. This photograph of Rudolph Schriever is almost On an unspecified date in early 1945 the _ via Bill Rose certainly genuine and may have been taken in Brandis Airfield was attacked by Allied war- prewar Prague. Bill Rose Collection planes and AS-6 V-1 was almost completely destroyed. What remained of the aircraft ended up on a scrap heap and all traces of | Messerschmitt Bf 109K-4 (the final production gest that Messerschmitt had provisionally AS-6 V-1 had disappeared when the units of _ version of this aircraft) with a newly devised _ assigned the designation Me 600 to the AS-7, the US Army’s 9th Armoured Division arrived circular wing. Equipped with a DB605 __ but nothing came of this fighter project. at Brandis on 20th April 1945. ASCM/DCM V-12 engine rated at 2,000hp Towards the end of the war Sack held dis- (1,491kW) driving a four-blade propeller, The Heinkel-BMW Flying Disc Story cussions with engineers from Messerschmitt AS-7 might have combined high performance According to the most reliable sources avail- A G to explore the possibility of developing a__ with an exceptional STOL capability. Itis also able, this story began in the spring of 1940 more advanced aircraft, which Sack had _ likely that the circular wing would have made when a thirty-year-old Luftwaffe Hauptmann named AS-7 V-1 or the Bussard (Buzzard). _ it possible to carry more armaments than the called Rudolph Schriever, who is thought to The idea was to combine the fuselage of a Bf-109K-4. Some unconfirmed reports sug- have gained an engineering degree from the 1 + onl Den wel tree bin This photograph of Rudolph Schriever is almost certainly genuine and may have been taken in prewar Prague. Bill Rose Collection gest that Messerschmitt had_ provisionally assigned the designation Me 600 to the AS-7, but nothing came of this fighter project. Towards the end of the war Sack held dis- (1,491kW) driving a four-blade propeller, The Heinkel-BMW Flying Disc Story cussions with engineers from Messerschmitt AS-7 might have combined high performance According to the most reliable sources avail- A G to explore the possibility of developing a__ with an exceptional STOL capability. Itis also able, this story began in the spring of 1940 more advanced aircraft, which Sack had _ likely that the circular wing would have made when a thirty-year-old Luftwaffe Hauptmann named AS-7 V-1 or the Bussard (Buzzard). _ it possible to carry more armaments than the called Rudolph Schriever, who is thought to The idea was to combine the fuselage of a Bf-109K-4. Some unconfirmed reports sug- have gained an engineering degree from the University of Prague, was assigned by the RLM to work for the Heinkel Aircraft Com- pany at Marienehe, Rostock. Schriever was put to work in the company’s design section. He had been interested in VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) concepts for some time and was apparently influenced by work undertaken by the famous Romanian aerody- namicist Henri Marie Coanda. As described in Chapter One, Coanda had discovered an important airflow effect (The Coanda Effect). This was patented in 1934 and during the fol- lowing year Coanda applied it to a flying disc concept called Aerodina Lenticulara. Utilising some of Coanda’s research, Schriever drew up plans for a VTOL disc- shaped aircraft and this study came to the attention of company chairman Ernst Heinkel This object is claimed to be the original Schriever Flying Top proof-of-concept demonstrator, although it could just as easily be an unidentified piece of industrial equipment. Origin unknown, via Bill Rose This object is claimed to be the original Schriever Flying Top proof-of-concept demonstrator, although it could just as easily be an unidentified piece of industrial equipment. Origin unknown, via Bill Rose 38 Ernst Heinkel, founder of Heinkel Aviation. via Bill Rose Secret Projects: Flying Saucer Aircraft