Product Description

- The Messerschmitt P.1101 was a single-seat, jet-powered, single-engine fighter aircraft developed by German Messerschmitt during World War II.
- Developed as part of the emergency fighter program in July 1944, this aircraft was a second-generation jet fighter with an air intake in the nose and a single Heinkel HeS 011 engine in the rear of the fuselage.
- The biggest feature of the P.1101 was that it had a mechanism that allowed the wing sweepback angle to be adjusted in two stages before flight: 37 degrees and 50 degrees.
- This mechanism could not be altered in the air and could only be adjusted on the ground, but it led to post-war variable-sweep aircraft such as the Bell X-5 and XF10F Jaguar.
- The P.1101 was designed in four stages, with repeated changes to the nose, main/tail shapes, and swept wing angle, and the fourth design, which was the mass-produced model, was planned to be equipped with a pressurized cockpit and armored canopy.
- The first prototype, the V1, was around 80% complete by April 1945, but when a US infantry unit discovered it without its wings attached at the Oberammergau facility in Bavaria, the aircraft was removed and all related documentation was confiscated.
- The prototype was shipped to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the United States, and in 1948 was sent to the Bell Aircraft workshops, where its design and construction would become the basis for the Bell X-5, the world's first aircraft with variable wing sweep in flight.

- Multiple types of wings, tails and flaps included
- The precisely replicated HeS 011 engine can be removed from the aircraft and comes with an engine transport trolley
- Cockpit and MK108 cannon precisely reproduced
- Includes Ruhrstahl X-4 wire-guided air-to-air missile
- Multiple marking options included

Product Specifications

Country

Germany

Item code

USCDW32002

JAN code

0654170501029

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