Messerschmitt P.1112

The Messerschmitt P.1112 was a proposed German jet fighter designed by Woldemar Voigt, head of the Messerschmitt Project Office, between 3 and 30 March 1945 as a less radical alternative to the P.1111. It was to use a single Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet and had three design concepts, with wing root or lateral fuselage intakes and a single fin or a V-tail, none with conventional horizontal stabilizers. Its wings resembled those of the Me 163 Komet, and the pilot sat semi-reclined with an ejection seat. Only a partial mockup of the forward fuselage was built, at Oberammergau, before American troops occupied the site in April 1945. The design had a direct influence on postwar US Navy carrier fighters, and Voigt later put his experience of tailless aircraft to use at Chance Vought on the F7U Cutlass.