The design was sound and flew well according to reports. Lack of funding and the end of the war prevented further work. The project significantly pushed forward the development of the turbo-supercharger. The incomplete third prototype (V3) was brought to the US after the war. This example was preserved and is in storage at the Smithsonian's Garber Facility. (see photos)
This photo is one of a very few in existence of the finished prototypes.
This is the fuse plan so far, produced in AutoCad.
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This is a model of the Bv155 hanging in the Deutches Museum, Munich.
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A photo of the Bv155 V2 taken at Farnborough, England after the war. Unfortunately
this machine was not preserved and its fate is unknown.
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This is the fuselage of the unfinished but intact and complete Bv155 V3
that lies in the Smithsonian's Paul E. Garber facility in Maryland. I took
this photo when I visited in 1980. It is not in the near-term plans for
restoration as far as I know. The drawings of the new Dulles facility show
it displayed assembled. The fuselages of the Mosquito and the Ju-388L
can be seen in the background.
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Close up of the forward fuselage of the same machine.
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The wing center section of the same machine, hanging on a wall. The left
radiator scoop can easily be seen. You can just make out the left wheel
well at the lower left.
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The drawings I'm working on are based on scanned versions of the three-views in the Bv-155 book by Monogram Aviation Publications. I scanned these three-views and then imported the images into AutoCad 12. I then traced over the three views by hand in AutoCad. When the relevant details had been traced, I deleted the scanned drawings and proceeded from there. The red lines are traced from the three-views. The yellow lines are reference lines. The white lines are for actual parts of the model. I like AutoCad very much. Fortunately my company has a site license so I can use it for free.
I'm currently sizing the model for a G-23, but I may up-size it for a G-38. It is currently sized at 100" wingspan, 67" fuse. The fuse design I've done so far is fairly precise, scale-wise. I'm thinking about redoing it with simpler construction using slab fuse sides (lite ply) and slab tail. I would save this more precise design for a later version.
For background info on the Bv 155, see Blohm & Voss Bv 155, The high-flying changeling , an exerpt from "Warplanes of the Third Reich" by William Green.
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