Hood, Erwin
First Edition.
From the series: Military Aircraft in Detail
Though the Luftwaffe ordered the famous Messerschmitt Bf 109 as its front-line fighter for delivery in 1937, aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel proposed a much faster aircraft. This was the Heinkel He 100, completed the same year as a small, sleek, clipped wing single-seat aircraft with an inverted vee 12-cylinder Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine.
On 30 March 1939, piloted by Hans Dieterle, the He 100, set a new absolute world speed record, when the eighth such prototype aircraft to be built flew at 746.6 krn/h, delighting Hitler with a global propaganda coup. While a number were sold to the Soviet Union and Japan as machine-gun and cannon-armed variants, the rest were taken 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 was an enigmatic aircraft, about which still relatively little is known. This book covers all aspects of the aircraft's 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 a later project based on it. This volume also includes a number of previously unpublished photographs, colour artworks and specially produced detailed technical drawings.
The author has spent many years researching this enigmatic aircraft. In this volume of Military Aircraft in Detail, the He 100 is covered in unprecedented detail. The book includes:
Design and development
Sub-series
High-Speed accomplishments
Propaganda and Intelligence values
Soviel and Japanese usage
Commissioned colour artwork
Specially produced technical drawings
Softcover, large format
96 Seiten / pages
many photos, drawings and illustrations
very good condition, like new
Hersham, England - 2007 - Midland Publishing
Art.Nr. 23914
