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    Arado Ar 234 V 16 Crescent Wing Conversion 1

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    The document summarizes the Arado Ar 234 V 16 aircraft, an experimental prototype developed by Arado with a revolutionary crescent wing design. The wing would have had progressively decreasing sweep outboard to improve thrust. In April 1945 the crescent wing was ready to be attached to the V 16 prototype but the facility was overrun by British troops before it could be installed, destroying the wing and aircraft. Wind tunnel data was salvaged and the crescent wing design was later used by Handley Page for its Victor bomber in 1951.

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    Arado Ar 234 V 16 Crescent Wing Conversion 1

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    The document summarizes the Arado Ar 234 V 16 aircraft, an experimental prototype developed by Arado with a revolutionary crescent wing design. The wing would have had progressively decreasing sweep outboard to improve thrust. In April 1945 the crescent wing was ready to be attached to the V 16 prototype but the facility was overrun by British troops before it could be installed, destroying the wing and aircraft. Wind tunnel data was salvaged and the crescent wing design was later used by Handley Page for its Victor bomber in 1951.

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    The document summarizes the Arado Ar 234 V 16 aircraft, an experimental prototype developed by Arado with a revolutionary crescent wing design. The wing would have had progressively decreasing sweep outboard to improve thrust. In April 1945 the crescent wing was ready to be attached to the V 16 prototype but the facility was overrun by British troops before it could be installed, destroying the wing and aircraft. Wind tunnel data was salvaged and the crescent wing design was later used by Handley Page for its Victor bomber in 1951.

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    Arado Ar 234 V 16 Crescent Wing Conversion 1

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    Patricio Lorca
    The document summarizes the Arado Ar 234 V 16 aircraft, an experimental prototype developed by Arado with a revolutionary crescent wing design. The wing would have had progressively decreasing sweep outboard to improve thrust. In April 1945 the crescent wing was ready to be attached to the V 16 prototype but the facility was overrun by British troops before it could be installed, destroying the wing and aircraft. Wind tunnel data was salvaged and the crescent wing design was later used by Handley Page for its Victor bomber in 1951.

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    Arado Ar 234 V 16 crescent wing conversion 1/48 scale

    The Arado Ar 234 V 16 was an interesting prototype developed for testing the revolutionary
    crescent wing planform designed by Arado´s chief aerodynamicist Rudiger Kosin. With the
    crescent wing the Ar 234 V 16 would have had a leading edge sweep of 37° inboard, decreasing
    in two steps to 25° outboard. Thrust would have been supplied by twin BMW 003 R composite
    turbines.”R” meaning rocket drive. A single HWK 509 bi-fuel liquid rocket drive had been
    attached to the 003 to help inproviding additional thrust during take off and/or rapid climb during
    night fighting.
    In April 1945 the experimental crescent wing was ready to be attached to the fuselage of the V 16
    (Wr.Nr 130026, coded PH+SX), but before that could be accomplished the Arado assembly
    facility was overrun by British troops and the new wing and the aircraft itself was destroyed
    during the fighting.
    However, wind tunnel test data and design plans were salvaged and in 1951 the Handley Page
    Company of England resurrected the crescent wing idea for use on its Victor bomber.

    The conversion features new wings, engine necelles, swept back


    stabilizers.

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