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He 177 A-5 KG100 2

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The Heinkel He 177 was a 4-engined heavy bomber which entered service with the Luftwaffe in 1942.  It had an interesting layout of double-engines driving a single propellor in each wing ‘pod’ which led to serious complications in the early development stages.

The He 177 was 70 mph faster than a Lancaster or Fortress and carried a similar bomb load, but rather than becoming a mass-produced success, relatively few were made, and the early design brief for it to double as a dive bomber caused huge problems too.

The He 177 continued in production until 1944, and was used against shipping as well as area bombing.  It was armed with 4 x 13mm machine guns, 2 x 20mm cannon, and carried  up to 6,000Kg of bombs internally or 3 x Fritz or Hs 293 glide bombs.

This example is an He 177 A-5 of 5./KG100 Luftwaffe 1944.
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I read somewhere that Adolph Hitler hated the idea of four engined bombers.  The fact that this a/c and the Fw-200 were produced shows the potential each of these a/c actually had.  Who knows what would have happened had Hitler thought that four engined bombers were a grand idea.