Most overrated german plane?

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The oil "cooler" was suspended in a tank of alcohol behind the pilot's seat and the alcohol was circulated under the skin panels of the fuselage top deck behind the cockpit and the vertical fin, some sources the horizontal stabilizer too (?)

If the Jumo 211 had different cooling requirements than the DB601 (even leaving aside the whole steam condenser thing) like the Merlin and Allison need different radiators and oil coolers, then redesigning the plane becomes a lot more difficult as so much of the design and structure had been to integrate the cooling systems as much as possible into the airframe.
 
As much as I love the He100 (I really do), I don't see it as a practical combat platform.

Extremely high maintenance and extremely vulnerable in a battlefield environment (not to mention it's weak landing gear issues that were never resolved), it's negatives far outweigh it's pluses.
 
Hello Shortround6, GrauGeist,

Thanks for the additional details.
I wonder if a more practical design based on He 100 would have ended up with features and performance similar to Ki 61....

- Ivan.
 

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