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At this point, the He 112 was the favorite over the "unknown" Bf 109, but opinions changed when the Bf 109 V2 arrived on 21 March. Right away, the Focke-Wulf Fw 159 and Arado Ar 80 proved to be lacking in performance, and plagued with problems, and were eliminated from serious consideration. The other three competitors had all arrived by the beginning of March. The He 112 V1 started in the head-to-head contest when it arrived at Travemünde on 8 February 1936. The landing gear retracted outward from the low point of the wing's gull-bend, which resulted in a fairly wide span track, giving the aircraft excellent ground handling. Like the He 70, the He 112 was constructed entirely of metal, using a two-spar wing and a monocoque fuselage with flush-head rivets. The He 112 was basically a scaled down version of Heinkel He 70 and shared its all metal construction, inverted gull wings, and retractable landing gear. Work was already under way when the official request went out on 2 May, and on 5 May the design was renamed the He 112. They started work on Projekt 1015 in late 1933 under the guise of the original courier aircraft, based around the BMW XV radial engine. Heinkel's design was created primarily by twin brothers Walter and Siegfried Günter, whose designs would dominate most of Heinkel's work. The specification was first sent to the most experienced fighter designers, Heinkel, Arado, and Focke-Wulf. In May 1934, this was made official and the Technisches Amt sent out a request for a single-seat interceptor for the Rüstungsflugzeug IV role, this time under the guise of a "sports aircraft". In October 1933, Hermann Göring sent out a letter requesting aircraft companies consider the design of a "high speed courier aircraft" - a thinly veiled request for a new fighter. +++ DISCLAIMER +++Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. Vadasz Szadad ‘Ricsi’ Mátjásföld/Budapest, late 1942 (Whif/modified Heller kit) 1:72 Manfred Weiss WM-23A ‘Ezust Nyil’ ‘V-519’ of the Magyar Királyi Honvéd Légierő (MKHL Royal Hungarian Air Force), 2/3.