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Most people know Ernst Heinkel and the Heinkel company for their Heinkel He 111 Luftwaffe standard bomber or the ill fated He 177 Bomber. But Heinkels real passion was speed. He was known and feared for his furious car driving and his goal was to build the fastest plane. This lead to his attempt to built the fastet piston driven plane, the He 100 and to the search of new forms of propulsion. As a result of this search, he came in contact with Pabst von Ohain who was, like Frank Whittle in England, working on a concept of a revolutionary new propulsion, the jet engine. Heinkel realised the potential of this new propulsion and supported v. Ohain. He also supported the development of the rocket engine, but this is another story. To test the jet engine in flight, Heinkel ordered to engineer the Heinkel He 178, which became the worlds first jet plane. This is Condors rendition of the He 178. There is another one in 1/72 from 12squared but the 12squared kit is inferior to the Condor kit (which is not realy good). It is typical short run and needed a lot of sanding, dry fitting and putty. I also did vacuform a new canopy and scratched some cockpit details. The model was painted with Gunze Aqueous and Alclad colours.
