heinkel HE 177

GREIF An unusual feature of the airplane was the use of twin engines in each nacelle driving a single propeller. The insistence of this engine configuration by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, (the German Air Ministry) stemmed directly from their determination that the aircraft should be capable of dive-bombing, a manoeuvre that is impossible in aircraft with four propellers, and also emblematic of the “Stuka mentality“ pervasive in the Luftwaffe in the very late 1930s, which also influenced later bomber de