Wholesale Heinkel P.1078A 1/72 Display Model

Hand painted and ready for display Comes with a display stand. As part of the Emergency Fighter Program, at the beginning of 1945 a programme was launched for a new generation of jet-powered fighter/interceptor aircraft to replace the winner of the Volksjager fighter design competition, the He 162A. The new aircraft was intended to have superior performance in order to deal with high altitude threats such as the B-29 Superfortress, but only had a 30-minute endurance figure. The P.1078A the most conventional-looking of three different designs submitted by Heinkel. It featured a polyhedral swept gull-wing with a conventional tail and was to be armed with a pair of MK 108 cannons. After being subject to severe criticism, the project was cancelled by Heinkel at the end of February 1945.