Thank you for this wonderful explanation of the mindset behind this. Kind of like the google moonshot idea but with the desperation of the times. The engineer

Thank you for this wonderful explanation of the mindset behind this. Kind of like the google moonshot idea but with the desperation of the times. The engineers themselves must've been in the position of having to say "Yes sir!" while all the time knowing it wasn't going to amount to anything. I guess you could have multipart projects where each engineering party thinks their bit is useless but together it amounts to something. And that is why I wonder .. what was the person behind this bit of wunderwaffen actually conceiving. Did they think they'd get a flying car? Or a 300kmhr supercar? What were they possibly dreaming up? We'll never know. I look at this and see - at best - a fast-ish car that would experience enough aerodynamic effects to have miserable handling but nowhere near enough to take off.