It seems that, during the last period of the war, Messerschmitt showed a little interest in such a project: under the designation “Me-600” and around the supercharged DB-605 2000 HP engine, its designers imaged a clearly bigger and aerodynamically refined airplane, with six 30 mm. cannons in the wing, for an estimated speed around 800 Km/h (= 500 m.p.h.). Obviously it never left the drawing tables…
Mike Harrison, e-mail, 30.04.2009 22:48
Hi, I am researching the career of Lt Wolfgang Wenning who was an Me410 intruder pilot flying with II./KG51 during April 1944. Perhaps your friend also a pilot with KG51 may have known him?
Lt Wenning and Fw Gustav Delp(radio operator)were killed on 27/4/44 when he collided with an RAF Oxford over Rugby.
THE WHO, 26.03.2008 00:13
Argus AS 10C-3 air cooled 8-cylinder, inverted V engine:Span, 5.0 m: Length, 16' 5" 6.4 m: Height, 21' 2.56 m: Wing Area, 8' 5" 19.62 m˛: Wing Load, 211 ft˛ 45.87 kg/m˛: Takeoff Weight, 9.4 lbs/ft˛ 900 kg 1984 lbs.
I am a curatorial assistant at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. One of my friends was a III/KG51 Me 262 pilot during the war and was present at Brandis airbase where Artur Sack tested this cobbled-together airframe. I have a prepared document if you would like to use it for your website. At least three pilots attempted to fly it - including one of KG 400's Me 163 pilots - without success due to its being considerably underpowered. v/r Gordon