HE-219 four blade prop
 

I am sure someone here will be able to answer my query. I was just roaming the web and came across these images, seemingly the same photograph, of a HE-219 with four bladed prop. Can anyone tell me what version it is and perhaps some history or other information?

Many thanks Don

photograph appears here ...
http://worldwar2.free.fr/he219.html
and on a book cover ...
http://www.aviapress.com/viewonekit.htm?EXP-020

Re: HE-219 four blade prop
 

Go here....

http://www.baermann.biz/pauke/index.php?itemid=56

Small extract:

"...He 219 V5
V5 was tested on May '43 at the Erprobungsstelle Tarnewitz for armament trials with an armament configuration consisting in six front-firing MG 151 of 15 mm. By the end of May was transformed to house four ventral long-barrelled MK 103 30 mm cannons instead of the MG 151. The fire rate of the MK 103 was higher than in its similar MK 108, and fire power was much more higher. This armament alone in V5 weighted 832 kg! In pre-production prototypes, configurations of MK 108 were He 219 A-0/R1and He 219 A-0/R2 those with MK 103. The employ of MK 108 in some planes instead of MK 103 (even when its fire performance was far lower) was due to its low weight (40% of MK 103!) and its easy mass-production features. The V5 was also fitted with four-bladed propellers and FuG 202 BC. The a/c was alover black RLM 22, RLM 02 landing gears, "V5" written small in RLM 77 on the nose."

Hope it helps.

Re: HE-219 four blade prop
 

Just to add to what Ferdinando wrote: On page 11 of the above book there is a captioned version of the same photograph, which reads something like this: He 219 V5 (GE+FN) with Jumo 222 motors.

There are also some references to V5 in the text, but I'm severely Russian-impaired.

Leon Venter

Thank you
 

Many thanks Veltro and leonventer ... much appreciated. And I guess I could have followed my nose ... the V5 was a bit of clue !