MAQUETTE À MONTER - Heinkel He P.1078 B Airmodel | N° AM-2063 | 1:72 **LIKE NEW INSIDE UNOPENED**
Prix régulier 20,00 € TTC 6%
Characteristics
| Condition | Like New Inside Unopened - Intérieur non ouvert |
| Scale | 1:72 |
| Manufacturer | airmodel PRODUCTS |
| Size of the box | 22.5 x 17 x 4 cm |
| EAN |
Description
Three different designs were produced under this designation for the OKL Emergency Fighter competition of 1944, the last of them being submitted for approval (see FW Ta 183, page 57). The P. 1078A had 40°-swept shoulder-mounted gull wings and a fuselage similar to that of the Messerschmitt P. 1101, which had a single turbojet located in the lower centre section and exhausting below a central tailboom. The single-seat cockpit was placed well forward, with single 30mm cannon on either side. Altogether different was the B, which was to be tailless and with no vertical control surfaces. The wings were swept at 40° and gulled, lateral control being provided by anhedral wingtips. The fuselage had twin nose cones, the air intake for the single turbojet being set between them and to the rear of them. The armament of two 30mm cannons was housed in the starboard nose cone, with the pilot seated in the other. It was the final version, the P. 1078C, which was submitted for the OKL competition. Like the B, it was a tailless flying without vertical control surfaces. The shoulder-set wings were swept back at 40°, had anhedral wingtips, and contained the whole fuel supply in the inner sections. A single 2,866lb (1,300kg) st HeS 011 turbojet was located in the short, centreline fuselage, with the air intake in the extreme nose. The air intake was flattened so that the cockpit, with a 30mm cannon on either side, could be superimposed. Although well thought out, the P. 1078C was passed over in favour of the Focke-Wulf Ta 183.
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