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HEINKEL HE 162

Part of the luftwaffe's answer to the ever increasing allied bomber raids of which it's own development suffered.With a main fuselage construction of aluminium and the mainplanes, tail unit and nose made of plywood in an effort to save scarce resources and employ semi-skilled workers in it's construction, however all these attemps to save time and money were to prove fatal when inferior glue gave way on the mainplanes of prototypes.

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Uploaded on December 1, 2008
Taken on December 1, 2008