⚜ | The He-100 - Germany's Lost Wunderwaffe ?
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- Let's have a look at the He-100. Many say it could have easily replaced the Bf109, but is this truly so?
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- Bf 109E3, Africa, www.wikiwand.com/fr/Messerschm...,
- FW190A3, JG51 White 2 & White 9, Russia, 1942, www.luftwaffephotos.com/lfw190...
- Produktion von Messerschmitt Bf 109, Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-638-4221-06
- Im Westen, Feldflugplatz mit Me 109, Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-337-0036-02A
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My father had an aircraft identification book printed in the UK at the start of the war. It contains the He-100.
I’ve got that book too, or one like it. The Germans convinced the British that the He100 was in large scale service. They painted them with various unit markings and leaked the photos.
Three way valves
I checked in my 1940 roof watchers' guide to German aircraft but it only has the fighter versions the He 112 and 113.
@@johnjephcote7636 He 113 is the same as He 100
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In war thunder, this thing leaks coolant after being hit by a pebble, so at least they got that right.
Good to know Gaijin does get it right from time to time :)
Epicbobo1 when you load tracers and go into arcade battles
Although the variant they have in game should have a centralised cooling system not a surface cooling system, and it should have a 20mm cannon in the nose.
So gaijin got it wrong imo
@BlackDeathViral03 Well if you are fliying that He and getting shot by it's tier mates you are doing something wrong considering that thing is a bullet.
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excellent!
holy shit i thought this was your channel
Joa, danke! Sah ja Streckenweise so aus, als ob das dieses Jahr nichts mehr wird ;) Umsobesser der Erfolg.
It's not?
Are you guys different people?!?!?!
Bismark and MHV
Keep it up!
The 100 is a beautiful airplane, but looks only get you so far, you did very well in explaining it's weaknesses against other aircraft at the time in particular other German aircraft.
I felt like I was watching a history documentary, keep up the good work!
Weird this plane never made it.....
Schwanzel Stock Too complicated to make I guess
better than history channel "documentaries" like Pawn Stars... that's for sure^^
Except the bad english.
I have to disagree also... can't really find anything wrong with the English....
Who needs millions of dollars to do a documentary.
Not many people when there's multibillion dollar companies letting you use what they bought.
the people who originally dive through archives to get the footage these vids are made from...
Just get some fair use antique footage and a mic! :)
A Hollywood director would need at least a million just to cater the documentary
No thanks .
Excellent video. The evaporative cooling had been tried before - the Supermarine 224 / Goshawk of around 1934 used it and some lessons were learned by Mitchell which fed into the spitfire design. Evaporative cooling seems to have been something that excited designers but was in itself a dead end in a warplane.
Finally, an explanation of the German evaporative cooling system that I can understand!
But would it cool a GTX 1080 oc ?
K'nextreme Productions >solder raspberry pi to motherboard
>Nvidia integrated graphics
Massimo O'Kissed I have no problems with my gtx 1080 armor oc... What are you talking about?
Daniel DeLeon Ok, thanks for the tip
If it went fast enough probably ya
And still do so after being riddled with bullet holes?
I've never heard of this airplane. Thanks for the information. Very well presented.
This was very well done, I learned a lot about an obscure aircraft. This also help give insight into not just the research and development of a single aircraft, but advancement in aviation of an nation as a whole. I really hope you make other videos about obscure aircraft of all nations that give the same insight like this one has.
Maybe an idea for a future video can be the advantages and disadvantages of radial engines and inline engines? I feel like a lot of people would appreciate some clarification in that area.
Also that radiator idea is absolutely genius even if it isn't practical. Classic German engineering! :)
Yes, it is planned :)
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Mustang. That's actually the real reason it was so fast. In a sense, I suppose the spirit of the He-100 lived on
@Brian Foote To vulnerable, many more parts and higher maintenance.
Evaporative cooling for inline engines had been tried many times during the 20th century, usually in aircraft produced as record breakers, possibly most notably the Schneider Trophy racers of the late '20s and early '30s, eg. Supermarine S6, or Macchi MC 72. These systems did reduce drag, and did work in the very limited environment for which they were designed ie. short operating time, not subject to attack by enemy aircraft, etc. They would have been totally unsuited to combat conditions, and a maintenance nightmare.
I decided to give you oak leaves with the Iron Cross
Thank you very much o7
Pff, I gave him an Iron Cross with Diamonds AND oak leaves. Lift your game, m8
I'm giving him the Iron Cross with swords and Diamonds Jacks and Aces with some Kings. What the deuce?
Fear the notion ah shit ya got me
Mike Tauppermann with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Absolutely fantastic audio/visual lesson Bis! It was on par easily with most history documentaries.
Excellent video - again. From the sources I've read, it was superior in all aspects to the ME109. The HE100 v8 version removed the experimental radiator for more conventional one and still showed excellent characteristics. Its range was also superior to the ME109 and used fewer parts. It's a pity/lucky it wasn't produced at the time of the original completion to realise its true potential.
Superior in all aspects to the 109. Right up until the moment it takes a burst of mg fire.....
@@darrenjpeters The comment addressed that, the V8 prototype removed the experimental radiator for a conventional one, which would have the same level of durability as the coolant radiator on the 109 - and the V8 still displayed excellent performance.
It means Hitler snd his cronies were complete morons picking that crap bucket 109....narrow landing gear etc,I read an aces account of the 109 and he had a furious name for it...The Germans had engineering that politics got totally in the way of...such as the Panther tank.
He 100 was and still is one of my favourite German Aircraft I have in War Thunder
Not only a informative but well made. The History Channel could learn a lot from you...like...for instance....how not not make their videos dumbed-down and boring long winded andddddd ... saying stuff in 8:30 instead of 45 minutes. great job THANKS!
Danke :)
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Thanks for that comment. He he, exp. part three . . .
DataWaveTaGo - You forgot Part 5 - Did aliens help Heinkel with the development of the He-100?
US documentaries suck anyways. Not hard to do better than History Channel quality...
According to Nowarra the reason for the He 100's cancellation was quite simple: Having a prototype fighter be the fastest in the world stole the 109's spotlight, which cast a bad light on Udet's Luftwaffe. That's also why Heinkel's team wasn't allowed any other record flights after the 209 (which was called 109R to make it look like it was a deviation of the serial production 109).
It should also be said that Udet presented the craft to the French as "the newest German fighter" and then asked Heinkel "How are you doing with the serial production?" This annoyed Heinkel greatly as no order had been given to get the factories up and running, and there never would be one, of course. Additionally, the surface cooling was more resistant to damage than the normal cooling cycle since a hole wouldn't leak as much water as one in a standard water-cooled powerplant.
NEvertheless, an amazing video.
I own one of Nawarres description of the He100 and can't remember seeing it written that Heinkel was annoyed by that question. Surprised perhaps. Part of surface cooling was pressurised, a single hole in the right area (which was larger than in a standard inline cooling) and the amount of coolant lost in a single instant would be a catastrophy. The part where the coolant was no longer under pressure was also a prominant feature (aka a wing) and larger and thus could be more often hit than the traditional coolers.
Whether or not the Germans knew at the time, but the French economy and lack of sufficient production capabilities, and even the structure of the government itself, would have prevented them from producing the plane at all, even if Heinkel had handed them the complete set of blueprints ... at least until their average design-to-production time of 5-6 years, or at least until 1943 - make that May of 1940 when that particular France essentially ceased to exist.
@@MilitaryAviationHistory That is true for the D-0-Series, but why do you ignore the D1-Series, slower but with a conventional cooling system. Still lightyears ahead of any other fighter plane of that time... in range, safety landings, sights, speed, climbing,. with competitive armament... the much greater range make the Bf110 useless... so you could build 1000 He100D1 for 500 Bf110... even better, its easy handling mean the germans do maybe loose only 10-15% of its new pilots to accidents instead of 30-35%... 20% more fighterpilots in much better planes gaining experience is a very bad news for the allies. Very bad...So no overloading of the training system - at last for another year or two... oops... that alone mean 10.000 more killed allied planes in the west... such things add on... it is no weapon that win the war (gladly), but it cost the allies a lot more in anything... more bombers get killed by "save"bomber killers, because the escorts get killed by the He100s, early on more industrial areas of UK get destroyed (less fighters, bombers, guns, tanks, ammo, everything), maybe more ships got sunk in the ports, slower unloading rates, etc), more british pilots are needed earlier (untrained) and got killed - basically a switch of the german problem from 43 on...
That is a really informative, impartial factual piece of cool history. And excellent delivery with the VO (voice over)
Fascinating, I knew nothing of the 100.. I'm a big 109 fan, which is how I discovered this video. I found it compelling from start to finish... Keep it up!!
this is an amazing video, thx for the clear explanation!
Thank you and you're welcome :)
Bismarck I had expected a three-language response from our mighty Hydra overlord! I'm disappointed Bismarck, back in the stable again with you! XD
Excellent, well balanced and researched presentation!
Excellent video - done with integrity and apparently well researched, best results of any endeavor always acquired by the love one has for the work that goes into it, soberly objective ... Thanks again Bismark!
Well done and educational. I've been a long time subscriber and you never disappoint. Thanks for this Bismark!
And my thanks go to you too :)
3:30 "Before we turn our attention to the actual plane design.... let me introduce our new sponsor, Raid: Shadow legends." :D
Very informative video! More like this would be cool! Love all your other videos too! : )
Thank you for making these videos. I didn't know I was missing this information in my life. It's great to learn more!
I do like the passion you express thought your way of telling the storie...I really like it.
by your brief description, the cooling system of the he-100 seems much like the cooling system of a refrigerator.
Thats needed cause you cannot pump steam!
@@cyphi474 Other than boiling point it is exactly the same as a refrigerator.
Power stations do not turn water into steam over an orifice - it is released at the liquid surface of the steam generator by venting bubbles. Anything else produces pressure drops and pressure drops are lost energy. You want all the pressure to be dropped over the turbine.
@@karlhubben8009 tell that to a steam engine
Ask yourself : Why do you need a cooling tower in a steamturbine driven powerplant? It would be much better to take the depressurised steam directly back to the kettle to overheat it again, so you could save a lot of energy .... or not? It's the same circular process named Clausius Rankine process in both, the steam engine and the steam turbine! Check it and find the answer how to move steam.....
Very good insight. I had no idea about the clever but highly vulnerable cooling system in the He100 design.
Concise and thorough explanations. Altogether excellent work! Keep up the great jobs of all your videos. Thanks.
Superbly composed video with clear, informed, well structured narration. Top notch.
The He-100 with surface evaporation cooling system was an amazingly fast aircraft, but not suited for a fighter aircraft because of its extreme vulnerability to any kind of battle damage.
However, that version of the He-100 would have made an excellent high speed photo reconnaissance aircraft, like the British PR Spitfires. In that role, its job would be to avoid combat, especially since it would be completely unarmed, carrying extra fuel in the wings instead of guns and ammunition.
The Luftwaffe really needed a high speed photo reconnaissance aircraft during the Battle of Britain, for low level work especially. The old photo recon Dornier Do 17’s were just too slow and vulnerable. And the ultra high altitude Junkers Ju 86R was very difficult to intercept, but the extreme altitude (36,000+ feet) made for low detail photos, even with huge cameras - you could tell the difference between a single engined and a twin engined aircraft from that altitude, but you couldn’t tell the difference between a Hawker Hurricane fighter and a Fairey Battle target tug. Often the Luftwaffe ended up bombing British airfields that didn’t have fighter aircraft!
Great video! I had never heard of the He-100 before.
Very well done. Excellent work!
A very obscure topic and an interesting analysis. I always enjoy and appreciate your productions for your insugbts anspd clear explanations. Thanks!
I watched this good and informed discussion of inline engine liquid cooling.
You have to admire the quality of draggy giant-displacement air-cooled radials doubling as bullet-shields for their pilots. They also have much shorter crankshafts that get along better with all the inertia of a giant propeller. Stories abound of Allied aircraft returning home with entire cylinders shot off their radial engines. My uncle was a P-47 pilot so I grew up knowing about it.
Many of which stories, were of course, pure myth 🙂
I love videos like this! I actually read about this plane just the other day when I was reading about the test pilot Fritz Wendel.
@Geo, Thanks for giving the test pilot' name.
I kept seeing Your videos popping up on my feed, usually dismissed them since I had something else to watch and usually they were gaming videos, of which I had plenty to watch.. I never imagined I missed out on so many excellent quality (informative, coherent, visually enticing) documentary styled videos.. wunderbar my dear friend
The visuals are a bit suspect, but the commentary is top notch and informative. Thanks!
"Come, Heinkel, show us the meaning of haste"
The he 100 is probably one of my favorite low tier planes in war thunder
Another excellent and informative video. Many Thanks Bro.
I am never disappointed with your videos, another excellent presentation. Thank you.
thanks again for these interesting documentaries-I believe RJ Mitchell; designer of the Spitfire, used the wing/floatplane structure of the Schneider Trophy S5/S6 aircraft for heat sink/heat dissipating of engine coolant thus removing the high drag associated with external radiators.
I am sure the practical aspects of such systems in the field plus combat vulnerability would rule this approach out.
Great documentary, amazing English speech. I had never heard of this plane before so this was very interesting. Yes, Willy did seem to get more orders than his fair share!
Awesome vid. Keep up the good work.
Very well done video!!
That cooling system is very interesting! You never see much about this plane, an intriguing little gem.
I will bet they never lost one of these due to wing Icing.
lol
Good stuff Bis, keep them coming.....
Liked! Always good to learn something about aircraft and aeronautical history ;)
Great video Bismarck, you now have your latest subscriber. One thing i'd like to point out is that the Supermarine S6B had the same type of cooling system as the He-100. Mitchel designed the S6B as the fastest racing aeroplane of it's day with liquid cooling within the skin of the airframe for the ultimate in streamlining... However when he designed a fighter aeroplane, in the form of the Spitfire, he deliberately chose to use a coolant radiator with the 'Meredith Effect' instead! That may well have been for practicality and also serviceability, at the small cost of just a few knots. The Spitfire was designed with a radiator and not such a cooling system for a reason, and not because the manufacturer did't think of it or couldn't produce it. So the He-100 as fantastic as it most certainly was, perhaps wasn't robust enough for service life along with diplomatic and other technical issues.
If I remember correctly this plane was originally a racing plane which is why it's covered in coolant or something like that.
Yes, it was a racing plane.
As always, Outstanding job! Thank you
Appreciated your video very much - thank you!
Fantastic production
Thank you, happy to hear you enjoyed it.
You've taken a very rational look at what was once, to my eight year old eyes back in 1979, a very clear case of "injustice against Heinkel". Perhaps it was, and perhaps Willi Messerschmitt really did have the inside track, but you've given some very good technical reasons why the decision NOT to put the He-100 into mass production and combat service turned out to be for the best.
Have you also covered, or would you consider also covering, the He280 in this regard?
Fantastic clear narration and great content!
Wow, I learned a lot and you did a great job with a documentary.
Its funny to hear you talk about some of the reasons the He-100 was likely not adopted by the Germans. Especially the coolant being so spread out. When I viewed the X-ray view in War Thunder I was like "Shit.... one shot by an enemy plane or stray bullet from even rifle caliber ground AA guns and I'll have to RTB immediately!" Great innovation to give maximum performance but a huge Achille's Heel. Ty for video. Well edited and put together.
Thank you, it did take time to make so glad to hear people are enjoying it
the cooling system would be problematic in a dogfight or sustained steep climb since that would mean high engine throttle and low airflow. the plane would burn up.
great video. I was about to like it when I found that I already had. ahhhhh, now I know why the story was familiar. And yet, enjoyable all over again.
Thank you. That was very well done.
can you imagine how hard that cooling system would have been to maintain in Russia?
Isn't Russia itself a cooling system? :P
Duct tape!
Quinn C. funny because Germany sold some of the pre-production machines to the Soviet Union and Japan
bigger problem would have been in North Africa where the hot air and sun would make it ineffective, forcing the aircraft to fly at lower engine power, thus lower speed and with smaller payloads.
I think in Russia they wouldn't even be able to take off during the winter... seems like water would freeze solid and burst the pipes. Maybe the water is kept out of the pipes on the ground, but even then the cold water traveling back from the wings would freeze up, that would be bad!
1:53 Notice the single landing gear, which, although slightly tricky to use during take off and landing, gave the plane a critical advantage in weight and drag, reducing weight by approximately 30kg and thus increasing acceleration by 3415% and top speed by 856mph. True story, I saw it on the History Channel.
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Very well done and presented!
Love your videos. They are so informative, intelligent and entertaining. Please keep up the great work. Greetings from Austin, Texas.
That cooling seems like heat pipes of some sort.
I misread the title. I read wanderwaffle. My appetite clicked before I could.
it still cooks everywhere if u care ;)
Excellent documentary and analysis.
You have a new subscriber. Very interesting video and analysis!
Lol wish I would have watched this sooner, I got the He-100 the day it came out and spaded it in about 2 ours and never cared to look at a x-ray of the plane, I was amazed at how fast it was and it was almost impossible to over heat, I didn't even notice that the cooling system was so vulnerable until I finally got shot at by a spit and noticed all the leaks, the plane was just so damn fast the enemy never had a chance to shoot me ... now I'm done with the he-100 XD
One of the most beautiful fighter aircraft
That was an excellent video Bismark....keep it up mate....
Very informative video and excellent research.
Hey Bis, you missed something in your overview... the final model of the He 100, the D-1, abandoned the evaporative surface cooling system and instead used a larger version of the retractable underbelly radiator. It was inserted in a "plug" below the cockpit, leading to a wing with slightly more span. It wasn't as retardedly fast as the original of course, but still capable of around 644 kph in level flight... a number only approached, but not reached, by the Bf 109 with the F version in 1941!
It also had a third more range than the Bf 109, which would have made it much better suited for escorting bombers during the Battle of Britain. This could have offset the need for the Bf 110 as an escort fighter, which also used the DB 601... and thus, the problem of engine supply for the He 100 basicly solves itself... especially considering that the Bf 110 needed 2 of the engines. Speakling strictly about engine supply, for each Bf 110 C built, 2 He 100 D-1s could have been built!
The D-1 is also the version that is now implemented in War Thunder... at least it is named a D-1... but its actually a D-0, still using the fragile evaporative surface cooling system and with the engine MG FF replaced by a third machinegun. Want to guess the battle rating?
It's 1.7. Yes. You read that right. A plane that can keep up with the ingame Griffon Spitfire XIVe at 5-6km altitude is fighting pre- and early war monoplanes and biplanes... The He 100 is now officially the most criminally undertiered plane in War Thunder.
One last thing about the cooling system... it turned out that the cooling capacity wasn't sufficient for more powerfull engines like the later DB 605, and there was no way to increase the performance of the coolant system at all... it was recognised as an evolutionary dead end. The Bf 109 is already labeled as a fighter that didn't have as much development potential than the Spitfire or later fighters, with this cooling system the He 100 would have had basicly NO development potential at all! Which is, IMHO, one of the main reasons for why it was abandoned on the final D-1 variant.
Whenever Ernst Udet is mentioned, I can't help but get angry about him... what an arrogant, ignorant and spineless bonehead! He might have been a good fighter and stunt pilot, but he totally failed in any other capacity, be it as test pilot, as the man responsible for the excessive dive bomber focus of the Luftwaffe which lead to such grand things as the He 177 requirement for dive bombing capability, and lastly... at life itselt, by becoming an alcohol, tobacco and methamphetamine(Pervitin tablets in germany at the time) addict and finally comitting suicide after the failure of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.
Maybe I am a bit harsh on him, he didn't choose the responsibility of becoming Generalluftzeugmeister, it was forced on him, and the fat bastard Göring also shifted the blame on him... but he didn't have the courage to stand up to anyone, either! And instead of confronting the people responsible with the fact that he just wasn't fit for this job or that the failure in the Battle of Britain wasn't his fault, or at least not his alone, he just consumed increasingly excessive amounts of alcohol and meth, which made him even more easily manipulated by Göring, and spent his time privately drawing reaaaally toxic caricatures of his superiors. He was a child in a mans body.
Robert Willis Mhm, I am confused. Are you saying that I am a bit too hard on Udet, because by fucking up he basicly helped preventing Nazi Germany winning WW2/even more death?
Or are you just saying that I am too hard on Udet, irrespective of any influence he had on the war?
If Nr1.) That is beside the point. I was judging the man and his actions, not the Nazi regime and his influence on it or his influence on WW2.
If Nr.2) I already stated myself that I may be a bit too harsh on him, in the last paragraph I wrote. He was just human, and circumstances conspired to put him in a really bad situation. Still... the way he dealt with it was, in my eyes, like a manchild.
There are also other things, like him test flying the He 118 prototype(contestant in the Luftwaffe divebomber requirement, which the Ju 87 won)... Ernst Heinkel wrote in his biography that Udet ignored instructions and flew the aircraft outside of its limits, in the end dooming the project. In the end, the Heinkel 118, despite not being able to dive vertically like the Stuka, was (IMHO) a design with much more potential.
The japanese produced the D4Y divebomber, which was at least partially influenced by 2 He 118 that were built and exported to them, and that plane was a lot faster and more agile than any Stuka could ever hope to be, and still was a very capable divebomber... it even used a license built copy of the german DB 601 engine(the japanese could never get their copies to really work reliablywhich is why it was replaced with a radial later)! This shows how Udet basicly doomed a very promising design, by being too self-absorbed or ignorant to follow basic instructions...
Nope. He-118 was definitely a superior design. They don't call it the "doomed dive bomber fly-off" for nothing. The RLM wrote the specs for the competition directly from the performance perimeters of the JU-87 and had decided beforehand that the JU-87 would win. The He-118 only existed as a raw prototype, and had it been given some development, it would have been an outstanding ground attack plane with fighter-like performance. It only needed structural strengthening and removal of the rear gunner. Also, the RLM originally had a specification for two different roles in the mid-19030s - one for a dive-bomber and one for the ground attack role. He-118 and another missed opportunity like the Ha-137 were designed for this second role. And guess who was instrumental in abandoning the ground attack role in favor of dive-bombers only? If you said Ernest Udet, well, you get the Ritterkreuz.
All I have to say to how this continued on the 25th and 26th of December is:
*SIGH*
I think I have encountered a classic Denning-Kruger reaction. I could answer you on all of your points, but it would be a wasted exercise. I meant to have a spirited debate, not a hateful pissing contest and you're welcome to believe you're better informed and smarter than me. My feelings are not hurt. I wish you all the best in the new year and much happiness.
Yep, I agree. For me, the issue with it is that you can't afford to take any damage at all because the entire airframe is the cooling system. Any hits to the wings will cause a coolant leak, any hit to the engine will cause both a coolant and oil leak, and any hit to the rear fuselage will cause an oil leak. The reason a hit behind the cockpit causes an oil leak, is that the oil cooler for the DB-601 engine was also a surface evaporator using an alcohol heat exchanger with the oil and the area used for evaporating the heat was behind the cockpit.
I've had many a battle where I was forced to RTB to avoid losing the engine after taking minor damage, but all of which caused coolant/oil leaks. Actually lost a plane due to the engine turning black after a LaGG-3 put a 20mm cannon shell into the rear fuselage which caused the oil to overheat very quickly. I would say that even low-BR Japanese planes are less prone to fatal damage from rifle-calibre machineguns than the He-100. I can't image this thing surviving at higher BRs where cannon and large-calibre MGs would destroy the cooling system with the first hit.
Have yourself some oak leaves with that iron cross. This was a great video.
Dankeschön
Great His tory. loved it. thanx and merry Cristmas.
Very interesting. Hope you continue the good work! Thanks a lot!
That cooling system in the he100 would be far to big for war. 1 hit to the wingtips could have taken out the plane.
For you Bis, your own Medal - The Order of Leni- umm I mean Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords... yes definitely NOT the Order of Lenin
:) Danke ju hairy musch
I enjoyed that video mate, more of this kind would be appreciated :)
Ver imagines
Well written and put together.
The bf109 was a good aircraft, but it did have its drawbacks. Limited armament, range, view from the cockpit, especially towards the 6 o`clock was some of the drawbacks. Liquid cooled engine was another, but many aircraft suffered from this - Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang, Lightning and so on... The bf 109 always climbed very well, from the E-model had fuel injection so it could do a negative G dive, it turned ok, but not as well as the Hurricane and Spitfire, however it seems to have been able to out turn the P-51 Mustand (when flown by a capable pilot). When the Fw190 came onto the scene in late 41 early 42 it "flew rings" around the Spitfire mk V...which may seem strange to some as the Spitfire could easily out turn a Fw. However in aerial warfare speed, firepower and roll is more important than turning, as turning is only usefull if someone is on your tail trying to shoot you, and turning for any amount of time makes you predictable and an easy target for a second bandit coming into or slashing through the fight. The Fw 190 A-models and the P-47 did normally stand a better chance of returning home after hits as they were air cooled, and there are stories of P-47s making it home after pieces of the engine being shot off. I think the He-100 and He-112 might have been better aircraft, the Luftwaffe went with the bf109 and the rest is history. The Heinkel aircraft might have solved one of the major problems of the bf109 and that was its narrow landing gear, which did kill a lot of new pilots.
It's not always about "better aircraft". You need the time to build them, you need the materials, you need trained workers to build them, you need guys that know how to repair them, you need pilots that know how to fly in them (and fly well in them)...the list goes on.
In the end it didn't matter, because all the other countries threw too much shit on germanys wall anyway.
Tech doesn't matter when you're outressourced like that.
I always wonder about the narrow landing gear issue: You never hear about the Spitfire having it, with a similar track width (and in the end even more powerful engines with the Griffin). Why?
Another thing I am wondering about is the production effort for the aircraft. If I recall correctly, the 109 tool roughly 10'000 man hours to produce, the Spit ~20'000. I wonder where the He 100 falls in.
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@@spoeny All informations tell us it was around 70% of a 109... so this means around 7000 man hours... if you simplify it a bit more (later on) you can produce so many of them that your bottleneck is still the engine...
Built a semi-scale rc model of this aircraft...flew like a dream. Just saying!
Excellent. I do enjoy learning new things. Thanks.
Ein wahrhaftes meisterwerk von video !!!
A truely masterpiece of a video !!!
Mach weiter so Bismarck
I endeveaur to do so, yes :) thanks a lot
this was posted on my birthday :D
happy birthday to ya =D
thnx
Me too :D
Liked for the iron cross :p
very good video. Believe it or not, this is the kind of topic i love learning about in detail.
Nicely done, as usual.
wasn't this added in the new war thunder patch?
yes it was the He 100 D-1 unfortunately i dont think the weapon preset is accurate
in war thunder it has 3 7.92 MGs
in wikipedia i read it had 1 20mm mgff/m or mg151's and 2 mgs
Sanger Zonnvolt kind of a shame because if Im not wrong it would be one of the fastest planes in its tier
i would prefer if she had some 20s that way it would be higher tier and did not club at 1.7 i mean c'mon
spit mk 1
p40 e1
f4f3
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laggs no match
And then you toss in this experimental beauty into the mix and wonder what would happen if it saw further development and even production. And of course you start wanting it into WT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_178
Rush4in its ugly AF but still a pretty good read
It looks just like the Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 "Tony".
They have the same engine. Well you know, Japanese license copy of the engine.
Great video!
Fantastic analysis. Thanks for sharing
Testflew it in War Thunder today, great plane.
As long as no one shoots at you
Very good video. Any chance you could do some non-german planes, just for variety and information? Or even more german planes, I'm easy.
Yes, will do
Bismarck Thank you Bismarck. :)
the He 112 B-1 is still my fav aircraft...
I just unlocked the He 100 in War Thunder and was wondering about why it didn't play a larger role in the war. This video more than answered all the questions I had. Thank you for the lesson!
The cooling system is known as Wing Cooling Evaporation System (WCES). It was also tried experimentally by the Japanese for their army air force Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (allied code name Tony) which also used a license built version of the DB-601 engine. The Tony had a large ventral radiator (similar to the P-51). Imagine a Tony without the ventral radiator and that's what the experimental version looked like. Kawasaki also experimented with this system for their prototype Ki-64 (allied code name Rob). The Japanese dropped development of the system for the same reason the Germans did.