The number 152 seems to be a reminiscence to the old Ju 52, wich was built in Dessau before WW II. After the end of the 152 Project, there was only a production of russian Types, for a short while, and even this stopped later. I think, even if they would make this bird fly succesfully, it would be a big question if airline companies would accept and buy it, due to its strange design.

The bicycle gear on the B-47 had the rear leg shorter than the front one. This gave the aircraft a nose-up attitude when stationaryand during the take-off run. The VEB152 had 'same height' main legs, allowing take-off in a horizontal attitudefor minimum drag. The rear leg could be shortened to rotate the aircraft nose-up at unstick speed.

The first version built had a tandem main landing gear, with outrigger wheels in the engine pods, similar to the Boeing B-47 (except that the B-47's outriggers folded into the wing lower surface rather than engine pods). A later version was built with a tricycle gear as shown in the three-view. I suspect this second version had problems with the rigidity of its main landing gear, those engine pylons making for the equivalent of a very, very long gear strut.

This three-view is absolute correct. I now this plane. It is the version 4

The three-view drawing is incorrect in its depiction of the main landing gear.

What a strange aircraft. There was an interesting tv programme on here last week about another strange German aeroplane. The Horten 229 was a jet powered flying wing which the Nazis wanted to destroy British radar installations on the south coast. The technology wasn't available to keep the flying wing stable & it crashed on it's 2nd flight, killing the pilot. The Horten 18 was a larger version of the 229 with a longer range. The Nazis expected to have a nuclear device by 1946 & wanted to nuke "A large city on the eastern seaboard of the USA". It never got past the design stage.

By 1960 the turbofan powered Tupolev Tu-124 was readily available, more advanced and (due to series production) much cheaper. In 1962 this was followed by even better Tu-134 rendering Baade 152 unnecessary. Anyway this had nothing to do with B-47. Baade was a chief designer at Alekseyev OKB and was the Principal designer of "150" experimental bomber (similar rather to B-66/A-3 Skyworrior).

As the late Paul Harvey would say, "Here's a strange!" Got to give those East Germans some credit, they tried to make this odd bird fly. Go onto YouTube and type Baade 152 into their search engine, then check out the two-part promotional film for the plane (and listen to the narration if you *sprachen Deutsch*). They had some ambitious plans for it. While they made sure to declare that the 152's design was based on the Alekseyev/Junkers models, to me this plane is a knockoff of the B-47 with its high wing, dual engine pods and wingtip wheels.