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In 1933 he returned to Germany accepting an offer from the Blohm & Voss shipyards that invited him to serve as the head engineer of the aircraft department. His first project at Blohm & Voss was the Ha 136 monoplane trainer. His second design was the Ha 137 dive bomber with inverted gull wings. This aircraft was not a success, but it was equipped with some pioneering technologies. The attractive cantilevered wings had a rectangular- or square-shaped all-metal tubular spar into which the main fuel tank was integrated. The peculiarity of the Ha 137 resembled the Kawasaki Ki-5, in the design of which Vogt had been involved just before leaving Japan.
After these projects, many other warplanes, especially the BV 138 maritime reconnaissance aircraft, Ha 139 transport seaplane, Ha 140 torpedo bomber seaplane, BV 141 reconnaissance aircraft, BV 222 transport / reconnaissance aircraft Viking, and BV 238 reconnaissance aircraft were produced under his leadership and significant participation. The BV 141 is well known for its unique asymmetrical structure, and the flying boats BV 222 and BV 238 were the largest and heaviest aircraft, respectively, at the time of their maiden flights. Although Vogt had worked out a plan for another huge flying boat, the P.200, with eight engines and a range of 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi), it could not be realized.
The design of the BV 155 high-altitude interceptor was started in mid-1943. The aircraft had initially been developed as the carrier-based fighter aircraft Me 155 at Messerschmitt. However, as the tide of war interfered with the development of the fighter, Blohm & Voss was ordered by the Luftwaffe to take over the design of the high-altitude fighter. Vogt totally redesigned the aircraft and build a prototype plane at the end of 1944 or in early 1945. The BV 155 never entered service before Germany's defeat in 1945.
At the final stage of the war, deterioration of the battle situation created a necessity for more efficient offensive power. In response to this, Vogt designed the Bv 246 "Hagelkorn (Hailstone)", a pilotless glider carrying large quantities of explosives. The tiny glider bomb was radio-controlled from the carrier aircraft which released it at high altitude. However, this glider bomb had never been used in action, although more than 1,000 aircraft were manufactured. Vogt also had conceived a plan to develop a jet fighter, but this plan remained unexecuted.
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