Messerschmitt P.1099

Me P.1099
Role	Multirole fighter Type of aircraft
Manufacturer	Messerschmitt
Status	Project terminated owing to end of war
Primary user	Luftwaffe
Number built	None completed
Developed from	Messerschmitt Me 262
Developed into	Messerschmitt P.1100

The Messerschmitt P.1099 was a two-seat prototype jet plane designed by

History

The design of the Me P.1099 began in the summer of 1943 and was intended as an improvement to the

The Messerschmitt P.1099 was a 12 m long, conventional-looking^[vague] aircraft with a wingspan of 12.6 m. It had a wider fuselage than the Messerschmitt Me 262 and was equipped with a cockpit for two pilots, located at the front end. The planned powerplants were two Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engines, later to be replaced by Heinkel HeS 011 turbojets in a further development with swept wings, the Messerschmitt P.1100. None of the variants was built, but this project was developed into the Messerschmitt P.1100 all-weather fighter project, which in turn would lead to the single-seat, single-jet Messerschmitt P.1101 design for the Emergency Fighter Program in July 1944.^[1]

Variants

The Messerschmitt P.1099 project had different versions of two-seat fighters which retained the tail and the wing design of the Me 262. All of the projected aircraft variants would be powered by two Junkers Jumo 004 turbojets.^[2]

Messerschmitt Me P.1099A

Jet-powered fighter with a crew of two, developed in January 1944. It retained the wings and the tail section of the Me 262A-2a, but with a wider fuselage. There were three planned versions, differing in armament: Version A with four