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Professor Anton Veeblefitzer, continuing his efforts to keep his design team, and factory workers, from being conscripted to go and fight the advancing Bolshevik Armies of Ultimate Liberation From Everything (BAULFE), came up with this goofy design.
Powered with a single Jumo THX-1138 turbo-jet engine, coupled to the minimum air-frame conceivable, the Ve-322A "Mayfly" was designed as a short-range'd fast climbing interceptor to combat enemy bombers that were destroying the Evil Snotty Central Axis Powers Empire (ESCAPE), and its ability to produce the necessary weapons of war.
Titled the Mayfly, not because it slightly resembled the flying bug, but because Prof. Anton Veeblefitzer was a staunch "fly-fisherman", and loved the "Mayfly Lure", above all others!
Any-who, the machine was equipped with 4 x 35mm auto-cannon, and had enough fuel for a 30 minute flight, and could wreck havoc to any enemy machine within it's limited radius of flight.
To conserve resources, and to keep the price down, the Mayfly Fighter was equipped with fixed landing gear, with a minimum of shock-absorbing capabilities, so the 'craft could be launched, and landed, from soft grass-covered landing areas.
The bottom of the craft, aft of the motor exhaust, was covered with heat resistance sheet steel, as the exhaust of the jet motor had a tendency to roast the tail unto oblivion, causing spectacular crashes.
A few dozen of these remarkable craft were able to take to the sky in the last desperate weeks of the Evil Snotty Empire's vain effort to survive.
And that's the truth! Pl-pl-pl-pl!

Description
Professor Anton Veeblefitzer, continuing his efforts to keep his design team, and factory workers, from being conscripted to go and fight the advancing Bolshevik Armies of Ultimate Liberation From Everything (BAULFE), came up with this goofy design.
Powered with a single Jumo THX-1138 turbo-jet engine, coupled to the minimum air-frame conceivable, the Ve-322A "Mayfly" was designed as a short-range'd fast climbing interceptor to combat enemy bombers that were destroying the Evil Snotty Central Axis Powers Empire (ESCAPE), and its ability to produce the necessary weapons of war.
Titled the Mayfly, not because it slightly resembled the flying bug, but because Prof. Anton Veeblefitzer was a staunch "fly-fisherman", and loved the "Mayfly Lure", above all others!
Any-who, the machine was equipped with 4 x 35mm auto-cannon, and had enough fuel for a 30 minute flight, and could wreck havoc to any enemy machine within it's limited radius of flight.
To conserve resources, and to keep the price down, the Mayfly Fighter was equipped with fixed landing gear, with a minimum of shock-absorbing capabilities, so the 'craft could be launched, and landed, from soft grass-covered landing areas.
The bottom of the craft, aft of the motor exhaust, was covered with heat resistance sheet steel, as the exhaust of the jet motor had a tendency to roast the tail unto oblivion, causing spectacular crashes.
A few dozen of these remarkable craft were able to take to the sky in the last desperate weeks of the Evil Snotty Empire's vain effort to survive.
And that's the truth! Pl-pl-pl-pl!