Heinkel P. 1077

Heinkel P 1077
Model of the He P.1077 "Julia"
Type:	Object protection hunters
Design country:	German Empire
Manufacturer:	Heinkel
First flight:	-
Number of pieces:	Construction canceled

Heinkel P.1077 was a German project of a rocket-propelled fighter aircraft in the final phase of the Second World War .

development

In 1944, the Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in Vienna developed the project of a rocket -propelled object protection fighter - the P.1077 Julia - as part of the hunter emergency program . The pilot, who was lying in the cockpit, was supposed to take off with the help of four launching rockets on a launching sled that could also be launched and quickly reach great heights in an almost vertical climb; five minutes of flight time should then be available for combat operations. Landing should be done while gliding on a runner. There was also a project study with a seated pilot and a correspondingly arched pulpit.

By the end of the war only a mock-up of the model had been completed, but it was burned in December 1944 during an Allied bombing raid on Vienna. The construction of two motorless prototypes, which had already started, was stopped at an advanced stage (they were 90% complete).

Technical specifications

Model of the He P.1077 "Romeo", a variant with a pulse push tube as a drive

Parameter	Data
crew	1
length	6.47 m
span	4.60 m
height	1.00 m
Wing area	7.30 m²
Takeoff mass	1800 kg
Top speed	1000 km / h
Service ceiling	10,000 m
Climbing time to 10,000 m	52 p
Engines	Rocket engine Walter HWK 109-509 A-2 with 1700 kp, 4 start-up rockets with 1200 kp each
Armament	2 cannons 30 mm ( MK 108 )

See also

• List of aircraft types

literature

• Volker Koos: Heinkel. Rocket and jet aircraft . Aviatic, Oberhaching 2008, ISBN 978-3-925505-82-9 .

Web links

Commons : Heinkel P.1077  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ulrich Albrecht: Artifacts of Fanaticism. In: W&F - Information Service Science and Peace, 4, 1989