Luft-X German Heinkel P.1078 Interceptor - Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, Warnemunde, Germany, 1945 (1:72 Scale)

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Luft-X German Heinkel P.1078 Interceptor - Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, Warnemunde, Germany, 1945

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Luft-X LUFT011 German Heinkel P.1078 Interceptor - Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, Warnemunde, Germany, 1945 (1:72 Scale) "Hitler's instincts, as always, veered towards attack as the best form of defense. He looked, as did - impatiently and more and more disbelievingly - large numbers of ordinary Germans, to the chance to launch devastating weapons of destruction against Great Britain, giving the British a taste of their own medicine and forcing the Allies to rethink their strategy in the air-war. Here, too, his illusions about the speed with which the "wonder-weapons" could be made ready for deployment, and their likely impact on British war strategy, were shored up by the optimistic prognoses of his advisers."
- Ian Kershaw, "Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis"

The Heinkel P.1078 (He P.1078) was a single seat interceptor developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel aircraft manufacturing company under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last years of the Third Reich.

As part of the Emergency Fighter Program (German: Jagernotprogramm), at the beginning of 1945 a programme was launched by the OKL for a new generation of fighter/interceptor aircraft in order to replace the winner of the Volksjager fighter design competition, the He 162A Spatz. The new aircraft was intended to have superior performance in order to deal with high altitude threats such as the B-29 Superfortress, but only had a 30-minute endurance figure.

Heinkel produced three different designs of the project which were submitted in February 1945. The high-altitude fighter designs brought forward by other German aircraft makers were the Messerschmitt P.1110, Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein, Blohm & Voss P 212 and the Junkers EF 128, the official winner of the competition. After being subject to severe criticism, the project was cancelled by Heinkel at the end of February 1945.

Pictured here is a 1:72 scale replica of a German Heinkel P.1078 interceptor when it was test flown at the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, located at Warnemunde, Germany, in 1945. Now in stock!

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 3-1/2-inches
Length: 3-1/4-inches

Release Date: October 2024

Historical Account: "Variants" - The Heinkel P.1078 project had three quite different variants. All of them were based upon a single-seat fighter with polyhedral swept wings. The wings were swept back at 40 degrees and included wood in their construction. All of the projected aircraft had the wing tips angled downwards and all of them would be powered by a single Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet.

The P.1078 A was jet-powered interceptor. It was the most conventional-looking of the three designs submitted for it was the only one having a tail. Its armament was two MK 108 cannons, as in the following two variants.

P.1078 B was a tailless asymmetric jet-powered interceptor with a short fuselage in which the air intake of the engine was located in the middle between two gondolas. The cockpit was located on the gondola of the left side, while the right side gondola contained the front undercarriage leg and cannon armament.

P.1078 C was a tailless interceptor project similar to the P.1078 B but with a single short fuselage. Both the He P.1078 B and P.1078 C had wing tips angled downwards at a more pronounced angle than the P.1078 A.