Messerschmitt P.1111

The Messerschmitt P.1111 was a jet fighter and interceptor project completed in January 1945 as an improvement on the P.1110 Ente. It was a tailless design with nearly delta-shaped wings swept back at 45 degrees, 8.92 m long with a wingspan of 9.12 m, a pressurized cockpit for a single pilot, a single Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet and four 30 mm MK 108 cannon. At a design review at Oberammergau on 27 and 28 February 1945 it did outstandingly well in high-speed flight, take-off, climb and landing, which the experts took as showing the basic superiority of the flying wing, but it was ruled out because the fuel could not be protected. Only a wooden model was built, and the work was carried on in the Me P.1112.