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|type           = [[Bomber]]
|national_origin = [[Germany]]
|manufacturer   = [[Messerschmitt]]
|designer       = [[Josef Hubert]]
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The '''Lippisch P.13''' was a 1942 design for a high-speed [[bomber aircraft]] by [[Josef Hubert]]. Of highly unconventional configuration, it was a tail-less, swept-wing design with an engine and propeller mounted at both the front and rear of the aircraft. A large ventral fin gave it an almost cruciform cross-section.

At the time of the P.13's design, Hubert was working in [[Alexander Lippisch|Dr Alexander Lippisch's]] department at [[Messerschmitt]]; when Lippisch left the firm in April 1943, the department was dissolved and its designs (including the P.13) were abandoned.

The similarly named Lippisch [[Lippisch P.13a|P.13a]] and [[Lippisch P.13b|P.13b]] were completely unrelated projects, undertaken after Lippisch's relocation to Vienna.

==Specifications (P.13, as designed)==
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==See also==
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|related=
* [[Lippisch DM-1]]  Glider version for Lippisch L-13, seized by US troops, studied at Langley NACA Wind Tunnel
|similar aircraft=
* [[Dornier Do 335]]
* [[Handley Page HP.115]]
|lists=
* [[List of military aircraft of Germany]] 
* [[List of World War II military aircraft of Germany]]
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==References==
* Nowarra, Heniz J. (1983). ''Die deutsche Luftrüstung 1933–1945''. Bonn: Bernard & Graefe Verlag. {{ISBN|3-8289-5315-8}}

==External links==
{{Lippisch aircraft}}

[[Category:1940s German bomber aircraft]]
[[Category:Abandoned military aircraft projects of Germany]]
[[Category:Tailless aircraft]]
[[Category:Lippisch aircraft|P.13]]


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