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Originally designed as a passenger flying boat for the postwar Lufthansa,
the BV 238 design was adapted in 1941 for military use as a maritime
patrol and transport aircraft. When completed in 1944 it was the largest
aircraft since the Maxim Gorkii and the heaviest built to that time.
A quarter-scale testbed called the FGP 227 was deemed necessary to test the
aerodynamics and water handling, but it completely failed to take off when
tested on wheels and was then damaged by saboteurs. All the engines seized
on its first flight from water — months after the first full-scale BV 238 flew.
The sole complete BV 238 was caught on a lake by P-51 Mustangs and sunk
by machine-gun fire in September 1944. Although three further BV 238s
and three BV 250 landplane bombers were under construction, the loss of
the only flying example
caused the Luftwaffe to
give up on the idea.
Jim Winchester "The World's Worst Aircraft", 2005
 | A three-view drawing (1310 x 712) |
| ENGINE | 6 x 1900hp Daimler-Benz DB 603G inline piston engines |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 100000 kg | 220463 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 60.17 m | 197 ft 5 in |
| Length | 43.36 m | 142 ft 3 in |
| Height | 12.80 m | 42 ft 0 in |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 425 km/h | 264 mph |
| Barry, 12.01.2010 The quarter scale FFG Prag Fg227 was powered by 6 ILO 2 stroke engines rated at 21hp each. It was built by students at Prag under the direction of Dipl.Ing. Ludwig Karch. | | leo rudnicki, leo_rudnicki(@)hotmail.com, 03.05.2009 Per Jane's 1946, the production engine for BV 238 was the Junkers Jumo 222, a 24 cylinder 4 row liquid cooled radial, gasoline fuel. The BV 222 was powered by Jumo 207 boxer or opposed diesels, or Bramo radials. | | Jeff Gillespie, gill332(@)bellsouth.net, 02.05.2009 I would like some information on the engines of this aircraft. I understand they were diesel engines. What kind? Model? Radial or inline? Where can I find more info on these engines? | | BRI'AN, NEIN, 11.10.2007 BV 250?DANKE!ICH BIN NAZI,BV 250 BESTMANN,DANKE NAZI! | | STEVEN, ben-sons(@)cbn.net.id, 29.04.2007 DO YOU KNOW THE BLOHM & VOSS BV 250 BOMBER COULD CARRY 30.000 KG OF BOMBS , ITS MEAN THAT BV 250 BOMBER CAN CARRY MORE BOMBS THAN AMERICAN B-52 MODERN BOMBER. IF THE BV 250 WERE OPERATIONAL, IT CAN BOMBED SOVIET INDUSTRIAL CITY BEHIND URAL MOUNTAINS AND UNITED STATES MAINLAND. |
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FACTS AND FIGURES© If it had entered service, the BV
238 would have had machine guns
in nose and tail turrets, at the rear
of the wings and in fuselage beam
stations. A dorsal turret would have
had two 20mm cannon. © The BV 238 was the world's
heaviest aircraft in 1944. Fully
loaded it would have needed
rocket assistance to get airborne. © The original powerplant choice
was four 24-cylinder Jumo 223
engines, but when these were
not available, Blohm und Voss
had to settle for six 12-cylinder
Daimler-Benz motors.
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