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FS98 Heinkel He 162-A2 Spatz

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FS98 Heinkel He 162-A2 Spatz, 1944. The German Technical Museum in Berlin has recently acquired an original unit of this 1944 futuristic German jet fighter built by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, who called it "Spatz" (sparrow). The project name was "Salamander", and government propaganda called it "Volksjager" (people's fighter). Built mostly of wood, as raw materials became scarce towards the end of WWII, its single dorsal 1800 flb BMW 003E-1 single-spool axial-flow turbojet engine gave it a top continuous speed of 453 knots, and 489 kt in short 2028 flb boost bursts. Officially, 116 units were completed in only 3 months before the end of the war, and another 134 were hastily delivered without papers. The model came too late to affect the outcome of the war, with little time to solve teething problems in an otherwise sound design, which later served as basis for future development of jet aircraft in several countries. Famous test pilot William Benson called the He-162 a first class fighter aircraft. Smooth movements on the part of skilled pilots were required to control this aircraft. Includes modified high-visibility Lear45 Panel with modified custom gauges, some originally by John Valley, Jerry Beckwith and Dragonflight Design. Textures re-worked by Udo Entenmann. By Stephan Scholz.

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