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He 100
Colourised wartime image of He 100D-1s used for propaganda purposes
Role
Fighter
Type of aircraft
Manufacturer
Heinkel
Designer
Walter Günter, Siegfried Günter
First flight
22 January 1938
Retired
Never entered operational service
Primary user
Luftwaffe
Number built
25 (including prototypes)
Variants
Heinkel He 113 (propaganda, never put into service)
The Heinkel He 100 was a German pre-World War II fighter aircraft design from Heinkel. Although it proved to be one of the fastest fighter aircraft in the world at the time of its development, the design was not ordered into series production. Approximately 19 prototypes and pre-production examples were built. None are known to have survived the war.
The reason for the He 100 failing to reach production status is mostly unknown. Officially, the Luftwaffe rejected the He 100 to concentrate single-seat fighter development on the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Following the adoption of the Bf 109 and Messerschmitt Bf 110 as the Luftwaffe's standard fighter types, the Ministry of Aviation (the Reichsluftfahrtministerium or RLM) announced a "rationalization" policy that placed fighter development at Messerschmitt and bomber development at Heinkel.
Because there are no surviving examples, and since many factory documents - including all blueprints for the He 100 - were destroyed during a bombing raid, there is limited specific information about the design and its unique systems.
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