He 177 and 277 performance difference

[Graham Boak]

That Heinkel disapproved of any dive-bombing requirement does not read across to the earlier blanket statement that he despised the He177A. He may have come to hate it later, after the effect of its failure and faults, but that's not how things began.

That Heinkel did no work to make the aircraft suitable counters the comment that the delays and problems with the aircraft can be blamed on the dive bombing requirement. They are to be laid at the foot of the Heinkel works. Not that the delays were actually particularly unreasonable for that class of aircraft at the time.

There has been statements that the Rechlin studies came up with 250 modification needed on the aircraft, including one to stop leaking fuel draining onto hot exhaust pipes when at landing angles of attack. That is not entirely compatible with poor maintenance, although such there clearly was. For that, much of the blame must lie with Daimler Benz, but in the end Heinkel was the prime contractor, to use modern parlance.