Heinkel He 162

A quick tribute to the Heinkel He 162, a revolutionary Nazi jet fighter plane that appeared in the final few weeks of World War Two. The plane was in the air within an astoundingly short period of time: the design was chosen on 25 September 1944, and first flew on December 6 1944, less than 90 days later! It first saw active service in mid April 1945.

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[Fait2]

Semtex. I always get a bang out of your videos!

[SemtexOnline]

Thanks :-)

[ConCon75]

what was the song in the backround?

great vid.

[SemtexOnline]

I don't know what the song is called, but I took it from the Predator Soundtrack, email me if you want a copy.

[SemtexOnline]

Considering the amount of time that this plane was designed and built in, and that they had to use wood and glue (that is why the plane was somewhat unstable, as someone mentioned before, but not due to bad design, due to lack of resources, it was created within the final heartbeats of the war), as opposed to follow the proper development process, what they made in the HE-162 is purely fascinating.

[tarantula700]

Where the whole "People's Fighter" project fails completely is the idea that teen-age boys could be trained to handle a jet fighter after some glider training. This is like teaching teens to drive, then expecting them to compete on the NASCAR circuit against veteran drivers. It just shows how badly the Nazi were out of touch with reality.

[halo07guy2]

Actually, this wasn't a waste of resources. It went from design to production in less then 2 months, was built almost entirely from wood, and was cheap to produce. Really, the only bad thing about the plane was how late it came.

[phadil]

@SemtexOnline The unstability might have been intended as part of the design. As you can see, the wingspan is quite short compared to the other aircraft design of the period. This may make the airplane prone to inertial coupling, but give the plane a remarkable speed and agility. It'll fly, but it'll take more effort from the pilot.

[phadil]

I bet they used an earlier rejected design. That should explain the short development period. One should realized that Me-262 was chosen out of several competing designs.

[YambidiBlamBlam]

So what was the performance record for this interceptor? Was it better than the Komet? You know if only the Germans would have got this in production way earlier, maybe it could have changed the tides of war,

[YambidiBlamBlam]

@brendonnz1964 Yeah, not to mention that they were paid very handsomely and they were showed respect and freedom. Stalin on the other hand, extremely mistrusted intellectuals and had them kept as virtual prisoners, and most likely had many executed if they crossed him, or their designs didn't show much promise.

[Khazar01]

A beautiful machine, the germans in WW2 sure had some brilliant minded engineers

[EliasKvistDK]

This plane was made mainly for Hitlerjugend in the final months/weeks of WWII. It was called: HE162 "Salamander" or "Volksjager". It was as you maybe noticed, A jet plane which was mainly made of wood.

[noonsight2010]

An interesting clip. It's fortunate that the Nazis did not perfect their late war aircraft.

[rad45org]

Hello SemtexOnline, amongst your photos of the He-162 do you have any of Oberleutnant Paul-Heinrich Dähne please? He was killed on April 24, 1945 when the ejector seat fired off whilst his HE 162 aircraft was still on the ground. Others at the scene have told me that the seat assembly came down with Onkel Paul under it and he was dead when they got the bits off him. Died when the war had only 7 days before surrender on May 1. rad@rad45.org

[MaxPolej]

If Nazi won the war. Today they could conquer planets and stars.

[bompiberlot]

Uuuhhh ! Both swim for coming to die on the shore ! If they had made​time and put at the disposal of its fighter pilots in early 1944, the story would have been another ...