Blohm & Voss P 188

what is it?

The Blohm & Voss Bv P 188 was a long-range, heavy jet bomber design project by the Blohm & Voss aircraft manufacturing division during the last years of the Third Reich. It featured a novel W-wing planform with variable incidence. The project was rejected in favour of the Junkers Ju 287 and no aircraft was ever built.

🔎How to recognise it: 4 jet engines · 27 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 825 km/htop speed
• range 1,500 kmwithout refuelling
• size 23.8 tmax take-off weight

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🏎️Top speed is 6.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 27 m: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 1,500 km: 8× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.1× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

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number built

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role

bomber

makers

Blohm+Voss

engines

4× Junkers Jumo 004C

length

17.6 m

wingspan

27 m

max take-off weight

23.8 t

top speed

825 km/h

range

1,500 km

ceiling

10,000 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.