Heinkel He 162 - an ‘emergency fighter’ that was as much a danger to its own pilots as it was to the enemy. #ww2 #ww2history #heinkel #WWII #warbirds | Daniel J Wheatcroft

Kris Hendrix, Researcher at the Royal Air Force #Museum, tells the fascinating story of the #Heinkel He 162 'People's Fighter'. It was a last-ditch wonder weapon jet fighter created by the Nazi war machine to turn the tide of the #SecondWorldWar and destroy the Allied bomber fleet. It was designed to be as simple as possible: to be produced by unskilled slave labour in abandoned caves and flown by Hitlerjugend boys with only minimal glider training. Luckily for all sides, it arrived too late to

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Coming along… 27 Dec and 9 Feb on the He 162 Volksjäger restoration at IWM Duxford. #ww2 #wwii #ww2history #heinkel #warbirds | Daniel J Wheatcroft