HE-219 and DB 603G Engines

[George Hopp]

Artie,
Just what kind of rubbish are you trying to feed us. Remember, April Idiot's Day is still three months away. Or is your "fellow Luftwaffe researcher" blowing smoke all over you?

You want us to believe that although Heinkel was able to produce just 25 He 219s during Sept. 1944 – the Luftwaffe's greatest month of production – and with the Reich's infrastructure hurting but still mainly intact; it was able to produce fully 35 of them, or 40% more, four months later at a time when the country had already entered final melt-down?

And then, you are saying that some RLM burocrat put his head on the chopping block to take at least 76 brand-new, high-performance engines from a/c in the Reich's Emergency Program, and hand them over to an aircraft not on that list? The only reason the He 219 program continued at all after July 1944 was as a place to use up the excess stock of DB 603A engines -- since the other two users, the Do 217 and the Me 410, had been cancelled -- and when they ran out so would He 219 production. Or does the listing have something to say on that also?

Happy New Year,
Felix

PS. In its letter to VDM on 8.8.44, DB noted the following engines either in development or production: DB 603 A, AA, AS, E, L, N, S and U;
DB 605 A-B, AS-BS, D-E, T; DB 610 A-B; and, DB 613 A-B. It also mentions the following sub-types equipped with MW 50 units: DB 603 AM, AAM, ASM, EM, LM; DB; DB 605 AM-BM, ASM-BSM, MM-DM (?), and L. As you can see, no 603G. So, if the a/c had switched to the Jumo 213E, given as an alternate engine in Remp's book, there would have had to have been months of modifications to resize everything for the new engine, and we have seen none of that. The only feasible alternative would have been the use of the DB 603E engine, which began production in late 1944. But, it was already ear-marked for the Do 335, and anyway would have resulted in a designation of 219 A-5/6, not A-7.