MILITARY AIRCRAFT IN DETAIL - HEINKEL HE 100 RECORD BREAKER

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On 30 March 1939, piloted by Hans Dieterle, the Heinkel He 100, set a new absolute world speed record, when the eighth such prototype aircraft to be built flew at 746.6 km/h. Adolf Hitler was delighted at such a global propaganda coup. Undaunted by the Luftwaffe favouring Messerschmitt with its order for a first-line fighter, Ernst Heinkel proposed a much faster aircraft. This machine was subsequently completed in 1937. The first prototype flew early the following year, a small, sleek, clipped wing single-seat aircraft with an inverted vee-12 cylinder liquid-cooled Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine. A number of subsequent aircraft were sold to the Soviet Union and Japan as machine-gun and cannon-armed variants, while the rest were taken on by the Luftwaffe to form the Heinkel-Rostock defence unit. In 1940, this unit was used by Josef Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, to convince Britain that Germany had another fighter in service, the spurious He 113. The He 100 can certainly be described as an enigmatic aircraft, about which still relatively little is known. The author of this book, Erwin Hood, a former aeronautical engineer, has spent many years researching the He 100. The book covers all aspects of the aircrafts development, the various sub-series produced, its high-speed accomplishments, and use that was made of it for propaganda and intelligence purposes. The aircraft which were supplied to Russia and Japan are examined as well as later project based on it. This volume also includes a number of previously unpublished photographs, colour artworks and specially produced detailed technical drawings. Aimed specifically at the aviation modeller and historian, the third volume in Midland Publishing's new Military Aircraft in Detail series will become a recognised reference source for all those interested in the development and operational record of this relatively unknown, but nonetheless fascinating aircraft.

Contents:

• Introduction
• 1 – Super Pursuit
• 2 – Anatomy of the He 100
• 3 – Rejection
• 4 – World Speed Record
• 5 – Exporting the He 100
• 6 – The He 113 and Beyond
• Appendices
• Source Notes
• Bibliography

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