Nope, Grampa. But the He 280 V2 with 004 engines does look alot like that. (the 004 is ironically similar in several other ways to this a/c too
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Some more hints: axial engine, plane saw production (though only one prototype was fitted with this engine model)
Sorry, I missed the last 2 posts.
Gramme, you're right, it's the "Metrovick Meteor".
And the progressive development by Heinkel and Gloster are irriely/ironicly similar: Gloster G.40=He 178 Meteor=He 280 Whittle=Ohain As both the G.40 and He 178 were the first jet a/c of their nations powered by jets made by pioneers of the field developing parrellel to eachother using centrifugal compressors. Both Whittle and Ohain were quite young and had developed their ideas as graduates. Both the He 280 and Meteor were the first fighter jets of their respective countries ans both were fitted with a variety of alternative engines, though both had centrifugal engines designed by Ohain and Whittle as the originally intended engines. Both had single prototypes using longer, heavier axial designs fitted as alternate engines.
Though Ohain had the advantage of being aided by Hinkel early on while Whittle was on his own, though Heinkle wasn't always the best influence on jet development for various factors (though still far better than Rover), he at least was interested and supportive of Ohain early on. While Rover was far worse for Whittle and cost about 2 years of engine development. Rolls-Royce was probably the best thing to happen to Whittle's design and I wonder what would have happened if they'd been chosen initially.
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