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Last update:
05/05/2012
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Heinkel He-100D-1 |
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Scale 1:33 |
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Author: Rafal
Ciesielski |
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File Size: 17.0Mb |
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Heinkel He-100D-1
Model includes bonus parts for two additional marking
variants |
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Price $10.00 |
Model # 003 |
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If ordering a CD, please
add $5.75
for Shipping & Handling. One charge per order. |
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Technical data: |
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Length |
8.2 m |
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Span |
9.42 m |
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Engine |
DB-601M 1,175hp |
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Max Speed |
670 km/h |
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Armament |
1 x 20mm, 2 x 7.9mm |
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Crew |
1 |
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You could safely say that the Heinkel He-100 was the first of Germany's Wunderwaffen...
Even though only handful of them existed and none saw any combat,
Allied pilots often claimed encounters and aerial victories over those
planes.
Airplane history (and its mystery)
begins in 1936. Heinkel's He-112 lost to Me-109 in a
competition for the standard fighter for the Luftwaffe, but the company
was not about to give up. The next model supposed to have
designation He-113, but Ernst Heinkel being superstitious was able to get
the designation changed to He-100... In order to obtain maximum
performance from the DB-601, the new plane introduced several innovative
features. The biggest of them was the use of evaporative cooling on
wing surfaces instead of a conventional cooling system. This system
required 22 separate pumps to assure proper coolant circulation and a
special semi-retractable radiator under the wing to cool the oil.
Another innovative feature was that the engine was mounted directly to a
strong forward fuselage as opposed to internal struts resulting in a very
tight fitting cowling. The complex and failure prone evaporative
cooling system was discarded in the D-series and substituted with even
larger retractable radiator. Despite the fact that He-100 appeared
to be the most advanced fighter of the time, it never entered mass
production. Exactly why this happened, depends on who is telling the
story.
And now enter the Wunderwaffe...
In 1940 the He 100's were publicized by Goebbels
in a propaganda effort aimed at convincing people that a new fighter was
entering service with the Luftwaffe. The plan involved taking pictures of
the remaining D-1's at different air bases around Germany, each time
sporting a new paint job for various fictional fighter groups. There were
even "action shot" photographs then published in the press with the He 113
name (go figure...) claiming the plane proved itself in combat over
Denmark and Norway...
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Model built and photographed by the author, used with
permission. |
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