Amerika Bomber

Although many books have used the term “Amerika Bomber” for the RLM requirements for a bonafide German long-range bomber that led to the design of the Messerschmitt Me 264, Focke-Wulf Ta 400, Heinkel P.1064, Horten Ho XVIII, Junkers Ju 390, and the Focke-Wulf intercontinental bomber designs bearing the drawing numbers Nr. 238 and Nr. 261 (the latter erroneously called “Fw 238” and “Fw 261” respectively in a few books), research by Dan Sharp (who has written books on World War II German aircraft projects) shows that official RLM documents referred to requirements for a long-range piston-engine bomber by the term Fernkampfflugzeug (long-range combat aircraft). In particular, Sharp notes that British intelligence reports from 1944 referred to the Me 264 as either the “USA bomber” or “New York Bomber”, and he also points out that the late-war Junkers EF 132 strategic jet bomber project was called “Amerika Bomber” in a November 1952 issue of the magazine Flying although the EF 132 did not have the capability to reach the US, surmising that the British intelligence reports and a March 1943 speech by Hermann Goering at his retreat in Carinhall, northern Germany gave rise to the mistaken assumption about the 1941-1942 intercontinental bomber requirements from the RLM being called “Amerika Bomber”.

Also, as noted by Dan Sharp, the Focke-Wulf Ta 400 but also the Heinkel He 277 (which were canceled without ever being built) were merely intended to sink Allied convoys in the North Atlantic and would not have had enough range to reach the eastern US. The Messerschmitt Me 264 and Junkers Ju 390 were the only heavy bombers designed for the Luftwaffe with the capability to strike Manhattan or any other target on the US Eastern Seaboard to reach the hardware phase. There were once rumors about the Ju 390 (of which only one prototype was built and six more prototypes and 20 production aircraft were on order) making a long-range flight from France to overfly New York City in January 1944 to test the Ju 390’s ability to attack Manhattan, but such claims (originating from August 1944 British intelligence reports based in part on the interrogation of German POWs) have been debunked due to a lack of concrete evidence, given that the Ju 390 V1 was in the flight testing phase by the time American and British troops landed in Normandy.

The wooden mockup in the photo posted by lazlo is actually of a fighter project by Mario Zippermayr, not Sanger’s suborbital bomber project (officially known as Raketenbomber despite being better known by Sanger’s colloquial informal term Silbervogel for his conceptual spaceplane designs).

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/mario-zippermayr-and-his-work-…

If you meant me KGB, I can’t find a link at the moment. I found it online a long time before I wrote a book, partly about the Amerika Bomber called December Radio. If I can find the link, I will post it.

why are people so lazy as to not leave any description of the topic ? just a link ? don’t be lazy

Just thought I would post this really terrible quality pic of a wooden mockup of the Silverbird/Amerika Bomber, taken by an American GI.

Anybody know:

1. Is it genuine
2. Is there a better quality version anywhere?
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Vympel.
Absurd? It led to the design of the Space Shuttle. Yes, it would have been impossible to complete and fly successfully during wwii, but if the Germans had had another twenty years, who knows? The fact remains that the ideas and technology required were developed to build the Space Shuttle and that flew using the same principles.