Heinkel He 100D.

[Spikes]

  The He 100D was used defending The Heinkel  factories and flew far more missions than the Ar234 or Me163.  Also the D model had the evaporative cooling system replaced by a  radiator type cooling system.     2 reasons I know of that the He100D was not put into full production was cost  of the aircraft and complexity of the wing construction Although the spitfire had a very complicated wing and took much longer to build than the Hawker Hurricane's , but thankfully It didn't stop the War Ministry from Giving the Ok to build It..  and Willi Messerschmitt was better connected with the Nazi party.  with the exception of Erhard Milch.  They hated each other.   It matters not what I enter on forums. vracui will bash it just like the insults and abuse he deals out to Me during game play.  I've grown numb to It.   Have a blast

There's a big difference between combat missions and test flights.

[Krusty]

Rod, there were fewer production model He-100's than there were Ta-152H's. Want to know why? Because there were NO production models of the He-100. Forget the fact that it was used as a propaganda prop to try and drum up foreign sales or spook the allies, but just the planes themselves were preproduction and all of them were hand-tooled prototypes. None were from a production line spec sheet. Several were sold to the USSR. Several were sold to Japan. Several were built just to test them to destruction and never flew at all. Several were run as the stripped-down racer variant, though many of these were lost due to bugs in the system and a highly temperamental engine cooling system.

Of special note: The reason it was never put into production was the evaporative cooling system. Even with the auxiliary cooling radiators added in the last versions, it still primarily relied on the evaporative cooling.

Also of note: The "factory defense" was probably as much of a propaganda stunt as the He-113 photos and none ever saw any combat. Ever.

[Vraciu]

Rod, there were fewer production model He-100's than there were Ta-152H's. Want to know why? Because there were NO production models of the He-100. Forget the fact that it was used as a propaganda prop to try and drum up foreign sales or spook the allies, but just the planes themselves were preproduction and all of them were hand-tooled prototypes. None were from a production line spec sheet. Several were sold to the USSR. Several were sold to Japan. Several were built just to test them to destruction and never flew at all. Several were run as the stripped-down racer variant, though many of these were lost due to bugs in the system and a highly temperamental engine cooling system.

Of special note: The reason it was never put into production was the evaporative cooling system. Even with the auxiliary cooling radiators added in the last versions, it still primarily relied on the evaporative cooling.

Also of note: The "factory defense" was probably as much of a propaganda stunt as the He-113 photos and none ever saw any combat. Ever.

It was indeed propaganda.  The He-100D never fired a shot.  It was never even within EARSHOT of a shot.  At least the F8F was being deployed to a combat zone when the war ended, unlike the He-100D which was nowhere near any action.

[Krusty]

It's worse than you think. There never was a He-100D. That's a designation applied to it after the war. They were all V-models or AO models. You don't even see He-100D on actual documents.

Kind of like how western designations for Japanese planes get placed after-the-fact.

[Vraciu]

It's worse than you think. There never was a He-100D. That's a designation applied to it after the war. They were all V-models or AO models. You don't even see He-100D on actual documents.

Kind of like how western designations for Japanese planes get placed after-the-fact.

Ah, okay.  I thought the D was what they called the He-113 or whatever for the fake photos...

There is so much deception surrounding that airplane I'm not sure what is true other than it was never used in combat.

[alpini13]

they havent added any planes to this game since jan 2014....