I agree with you, and I think it was missed oportunity and a grave mistake not to pursue it by the Luftwaffe.
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The HE100 was faster but very expensive.
To ease production the new design had considerably fewer parts than the 112, and those that remained contained considerably few compound curves. In part count the 100 was made of 969 unique parts and was held together with 11543 rivets, in comparison the 112 had 2885 parts and 26864 rivets. The new straight-edged wing was a source of much of the savings, after building the first wings Otto Butter reported that the reduction in complexity and rivet count (along with the Butter brothers's own explosive rivet system) saved an astonishing 1150 man hours per wing.
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The HE100 was...very expensive.
schwarzpanzer said:Ah-ha!
Evapourative cooling!
It is very fragile and was used in the He-100 and was the main reason for it's high performance.
The Schmitts rads were far, far better and if the He used conventional rads, the performance advantage would be offset.
The He 100 had some problems with its condensation cooling system, but these were solved with an additional retractable normal cooler under the fuselage and the original condensation cooling system proved that it was able to take as much battle damage as well as normal cooling systems. The C serie proved that this fighter can carry a armament superior to all enemies of its time. The expectable dogfight tactics would have been similar to the F4U Corsair and Fw190A (hit and run). Why didn´t this plane succeed? Even with a standard cooling system (and no condensation cooling), it would have been still fast enough to be state-of-the-art until at least 1942! The only weakness I found was the small wing area of 14,50m2. It later would have limited the amount of additional armour, horsepower, armament and fuel and resulted in a high landing speed. In fact, the allies wouldn´t have had any chance in the Battle of Britain against 800 Heinkel 100D instead of 800 Me 109E!
Goebbels used a squadron of He-100's in a propoganda poster making the Brits believe the Nazis had a new fighter
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