The Heinkel P.1078, also He P.1078, was a single-seat interceptor developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last years of the Third Reich. At the start of 1945 the Air Force High Command launched a programme for a new generation of fighters to replace the He 162A Spatz, with performance good enough to deal with high-altitude threats such as the B-29 Superfortress. Heinkel submitted three quite different designs in February 1945, all single-seat with polyhedral wings swept back 40 degrees, partly of wood, with downturned wing tips, and all powered by a single HeS 011 turbojet. The P.1078 A had a tail, while the B and C were tailless. After severe criticism Heinkel cancelled the project at the end of February 1945; the winner was the Junkers EF 128.
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was a single seat interceptor developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel aircraft manufacturing company under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last years of the Third Reich
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was a single seat interceptor developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel aircraft manufacturing company under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last years of the Third Reich
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would be powered by a single Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet
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the project was cancelled by Heinkel at the end of February 1945
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was a single seat interceptor developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel aircraft manufacturing company under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last years of the Third Reich
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was a single seat interceptor developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel aircraft manufacturing company under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last years of the Third Reich
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was a single seat interceptor developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel aircraft manufacturing company under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last years of the Third Reich
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