{"id":148642,"date":"2022-10-21T16:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/meet-the-strangest-aircraft-ever-conceived-the-focke-wulf-triebflugel"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:24:56","slug":"meet-the-strangest-aircraft-ever-conceived-the-focke-wulf-triebflugel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/meet-the-strangest-aircraft-ever-conceived-the-focke-wulf-triebflugel","title":{"rendered":"Meet the strangest aircraft ever conceived, the Focke-Wulf Triebfl\u00fcgel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SyGvXFJ7Ojg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The apparent lovechild between a helicopter and a ramjet, the Focke-Wulf Triebfl\u00fcgel might just be the oddest aircraft you\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>In the closing months of WWII, the Germans were experimenting with some very fascinating aircraft designs, like the Focke-Wulf Triebfl\u00fcgel.<\/p>\n<p>Part helicopter and part conventional plane, this aircraft used ramjets to turn its unique rotor design. Thankfully for the Allies, it never saw the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>In 1944, the indestructible and unbeatable reputation of the German Army was in tatters. Under pressure from the East and West, it was gradually being pushed back to the German homeland.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Vanessa Ravencroft\/Fandom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/meet-the-strangest-aircraft-ever-conceived-the-focke-wulf-triebflugel\">Continue reading \u201cMeet the strangest aircraft ever conceived, the Focke-Wulf Triebfl\u00fcgel\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apparent lovechild between a helicopter and a ramjet, the Focke-Wulf Triebfl\u00fcgel might just be the oddest aircraft you\u2019ve ever seen. In the closing months of WWII, the Germans were experimenting with some very fascinating aircraft designs, like the Focke-Wulf Triebfl\u00fcgel. Part helicopter and part conventional plane, this aircraft used ramjets to turn its unique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}