Luftwaffe Long-Range Bomber Competition of 1941/42

[hesham]

From, Luftwaffe over America,

there was a competition for long range bomber,and three companies
submitted proposals,Heinkel,Focke Wulf and Junkers,the Junkers Ju-390
was the tender and maybe the Focke Wulf Project was led to develop
FW-238 or early concept from it,what about Heinkel ?.

 

[hesham]

The answer was in Dan's book;Luftwaffe Secret Bombers of the
Third Reich,but no drawing to Heinkel proposal ?.

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

From, Luftwaffe over America,

there was a competition for long range bomber,and three companies
submitted proposals,Heinkel,Focke Wulf and Junkers,the Junkers Ju-390
was the tender and maybe the Focke Wulf Project was led to develop
FW-238 or early concept from it,what about Heinkel ?.

The Focke-Wulf Fernkampfflugzeug proposal with six DB 603 engines and an all-up weight of 80 tons dated December 2, 1941, was not given an RLM designation (the "Fw 238" designation quoted in some sources for the Focke Wulf long-range bomber designs of April and September 1941 with four BMW 801s and four BMW 803s respectively is a postwar invention by aviation writers derived from the drawing label Nr. 238 for these designs). Very scant data is available for the six engine Heinkel design, but a list of late-war Heinkel aircraft designs compiled by Heinkel designers after they were captured by Allied troops (on page 34 of Dan Sharp's bookazine Luftwaffe: Secret Bombers of the Third Reich) indicates that the Heinkel proposal bore the project number P.1064 because the list describes P.1064 as a long-range bomber with six piston engines.