| Book Description | The story of the messerschmitt me 109's ultimate development, the blohm & voss bv 155, begins in 1942 with plans to split the me 109 family into three branches - a standard fighter, a high-altitude fighter and a carrier-based fighter. Initially these were known as the me 409 but later became the me 155 a, b and c. The project was given to the french to develop, where it stalled. But when germany got its first taste of what the usaaf's bomber force was capable of - suffering huge damage to its war-critical industries as a result of massed raids on its factories and cities - work on the me 155 b was recommenced as a matter of urgency. With the me 262 consuming most of messerschmitt's design capacity, the project was then passed on to a sub-contractor: blohm & voss. Richard vogt, b&v's chief designer, quickly realised that messerschmitt had made very little progress on the design and was forced to begin again almost from scratch. In just over a year, a prototype was built and flown - but the war ended before production could begin. |
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