The Luftwaffe Arrow

Should someone have a competition for the most unusual aircraft created during World War 2, the Dornier 335 Pfeil, which means ‘arrow’, could surely fight for one of the top places. With an engine and a propeller in both front and rear, this machine was surely exotic to say the least. The layout had actually been used before, during the First World War, but it never became popular due to a number of unsolvable issues. Among those issues were the high vibration of the long drive shaft connecting the pushing propeller and the low effectiveness of the tail surfaces.