Heinkel P.1073

The Heinkel P.1073, also written He P.1073 and known as the Strahljaeger or jet fighter, was a fighter project developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel during the last years of the Second World War. In 1944 Heinkel produced different designs using either two Heinkel HeS 011 or two BMW 003 axial-flow turbojets, one placed on top of the fuselage and the other below it, the lower one offset to leave room for the retractable nose wheel. Twenty variants were drawn between 6 July and 3 October 1944, all armed with two 30 millimetre MK 108 cannon, including a v-tail fighter with swept wings, a high-altitude reconnaissance version and a forward-swept-wing variant. The studies were used by Heinkel to develop the single-jet He 162 Volksjaeger in late 1944. The wingspan was 12 metres.