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Heinkel P.1079B


Single-Seat, All-Weather Heavy Fighter Proposal


Nazi Germany | 1946



"The Heinkel P.1079B single-seat, all-weather fighter was the second of five designs all falling under the P.1079 project designation."

Power & Performance
Those special qualities that separate one aircraft design from another. Performance specifications presented assume optimal operating conditions for the Heinkel P.1079B Single-Seat, All-Weather Heavy Fighter Proposal.
2 x Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet engines developing 2,866lb of thrust each.
Propulsion
575 mph
925 kph | 499 kts
Max Speed
32,808 ft
10,000 m | 6 miles
Service Ceiling
1,647 miles
2,650 km | 1,431 nm
Operational Range
Structure
The nose-to-tail, wingtip-to-wingtip physical qualities of the Heinkel P.1079B Single-Seat, All-Weather Heavy Fighter Proposal.
1
(MANNED)
Crew
29.5 ft
9.00 m
O/A Length
42.7 ft
(13.00 m)
O/A Width
13.1 ft
(4.00 m)
O/A Height
11,023 lb
(5,000 kg)
Empty Weight
22,046 lb
(10,000 kg)
MTOW
Armament
Available supported armament and special-mission equipment featured in the design of the Heinkel P.1079B Single-Seat, All-Weather Heavy Fighter Proposal .
PROPOSED:
4 x 30mm MK108 automatic cannons in nose section (two guns per fuselage side).
Variants
Notable series variants as part of the Heinkel P.1079B family line.
P.1079B - Base Project Designation.
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Drawn up as a possible all-weather and night-fighter, the P.1079B was the natural progression of a line of design studies undertaken by Heinkel engineers during the latter World War 2 (1939-1945) period that began with the P.1079A (detailed elsewhere on this site) of early-1945. In its original form, the aircraft carried a two-person crew (seated in tandem, back-to-back) and the aircraft sported large, swept-back wing mainplanes along with a "V-tail" plane arrangement. A side-by-side twin engine configuration would power the machine.

In the "P.1079B" revision, the aircraft was modified extensively by becoming a near-flying-wing design. The larger surface area of the delta-wing arrangement meant that no horizontal tailplanes were needed. The V-tail was given up in favor of a more traditional single fin. Furthermore, the wing mainplanes, sweptback at 45-degree angles, were now cranked to become "gull-wing" in form, giving the possible fighter a futuristic appearance. Again a twin turbojet engine configuration would be used for propulsion and a tricycle undercarriage for ground-running. The crew was reduced to a single person in this new design approach and his position was set under a lightly-framed cockpit near the nose of the aircraft. Each engine was aspirated through a circular intake located at each wing root and would be exhausted near the wing trailing edges, ahead of the tail unit. Structural measurements included a running length of 29.6 feet and a wingspan of 42.8 feet.

Power would come from 2 x Heinkel Hirth HeS 011 turbojet engines providing for an estimated maximum speed of 630 miles-per-hour.

In any event, the P.1079B was not progressed any further than paper drawings and may have been a product of the early post-war period following the capitulation of Germany in May 1945.

A subsequent P.1079B design, the so-called "P.1079C", took on many of the same qualities listed above and added heavier sweep to the mainplanes, deleted the vertical tail fin altogether, and reverted to a crew of two (in tandem, back-to-back). The same armament was retained as was the twin turbojet layout.

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Contractor(s): Heinkel - Nazi Germany
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