As the war in Europe slowly progressed, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) found itself in a desperate struggle to fend off everincreasing Allied bombing raids. These desperate times demanded a desperate solution, which came in the form of many experimental aircraft and other technological proposals. Some of these included developing ramjets engines that could be powered using alternative fuels, and aircraft designs that could potentially reach supersonic speed. The man who tried to combine them into a single design was Alexander Martin Lippisch and his bizarrelooking P 13a flying triangle.

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