Messerschmitt P.1107

The Messerschmitt P.1107, also given the proposed RLM designation Me 462, was a jet-powered bomber project developed late in the Second World War. Proposed on 25 January 1945 as the P.1107/I, it drew on experience with the Me 264 bomber, using that aircraft's fuselage with wooden wings, a crew of four in a pressurized cabin, and either two BMW 018 turbojets or four BMW 003D or Heinkel HeS 011 turbojets in wing pods, with a 4,000 kg internal bomb load. The RLM rejected it because it would not have had the speed or altitude to reach the United States safely. A refined all-metal P.1107/II with four HeS 011 engines in the wing roots and a V-tail was in the early stages of construction when the war ended, and a tailless third variant was drawn under the label IX-122.