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15 The first aircraft in the line-up of the left side is He 162 A-2 W.Nr. 120067 "White 4". Like other German aircraft makers,
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke built their He 162s in modules and assembled the parts to create a complete aircraft with tail, wings, fuselage, engine and nose easily disassembled for maintenance or replacement. Like the other He 162s of the 120xxx series that were assembled at the Heinkel
Werke at Rostok, This A-2 had a pair 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon whose long muzzles protruded from its gun ports. Note the thick black surround and the gunpowder residue on the nose in front.
Also, as a fully-camouflaged He 162 bearing a white numeral, this fuselage has a thin black surround to the numeral that is especially visible on the RLM 76 white/blue under surfaces.
Due to instability in flight, downward, anhedral, wingtips nicknamed "Lippisch ears" after designer Alexander Lippisch, who suggested a remedy to the problem, were added. Note the distinctive scalloped edges of the dark upper camo on the Lippisch ear of "White 4". Barely noticeable is the RLM 23 Red on the intake cowl of the BMW 003 jet engine nacelle. RLM 23 had been the colour of JG 1's RVT band on its piston aircraft. JG 1 also added a distinctive RLM 23 red arrow to each side of the nose of its He 162s.
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16.Instead of flying the He 162s out of Leck, the easily disassembled airframes were taken apart for shipment by train and divided up among the western Alles. Those given to the Americans were first sent to its collection point in Kassel, Germany. For a static display there, a Frankenstein He 162 was assembled from parts using the fuselage of "White 4" as the base.
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17. This view shows that the wings and tail are components from unknown aircraft that do not match the original airframe. Carefully scratched into this Lippisch ear is "10 ADC-1" of the American unit that assembled it.
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18. This poor port-side view shows the protruding MG 151/20 cannon of an A-2 and JG 1's "Diving Eagle"
wappen commonly found on the port side of its He 162s.
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19. The wing component of W.Nr. 120067 ended up in the United States being attached to the fuselage of W.Nr. 120222, "Yellow 7". With the exception of "Yellow 3", yellow numerals, like the one here, did not have the thin black surround which is especially absent on the lower RLM 76 camouflage. Instead it was a thin white surround.