Heinkel P.1080

The Heinkel P.1080 was a German Emergency Fighter proposed by Heinkel. Work began in early 1945 when the Ministry of Aviation issued specifications for a fighter powered by two ramjets, each of 15.3 kilonewtons thrust, from the DFS. The aircraft would have been tailless, with the elevators built into a swept wing based on that of the Heinkel P.1078 and a single vertical stabiliser, the cockpit far forward and the two engines at the wing roots. The nose would have housed a radar and two 30 millimetre MK 108 cannon. For take-off it would have used solid-fuel rocket boosters and a jettisonable undercarriage, and it would have landed on a retractable skid. The wingspan was 8.9 metres and the projected top speed 1,000 kilometres per hour. No prototypes were built.