The Arado E.581-4 was a German

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project. It had three landing gears, and an unusually low fuselage.

History

The aircraft was originally designed as the Arado E.555, and a scaled down version was designed in 1944, developing into this craft. Production was never completed, however, as it was dropped in favour of maximising production of existing designs.

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