If Heinkel and Ohain had more support...

...how far would they be able to get before war' s end?
or you could ask yourself, if von Ohain had support early, how much could have been done before the war started.
i good pre-war start makes things much easier, then with war-time restrictions in place
 
hence my remark about pre-war, the earlier they can start research on that in all earnest, the better. time is the crucial factor here

I kept the question vague partially for that reason, and given the HeS-011's capabilities and what they had to work with...
 
German jet engines received plenty of support, but still came out a nickel short. You can't make a blade if the alloys can't be made.
Tinidur had shortcomings, and chromadur had different shortcomings and the stuff to make them better didn't exist in sufficient quantity to even bother trying. Some added nickel and a dash of moly, plus some procedures would have yielded A-286, but that's the stuff that dreams are made of.
 
The Nickel was in short supply because Fuhrer supported the HEER at the expense of the other two branches. The WEST WALL wasted 110,000 tons of armored steel. Even if this was only non-cemented armored steel it still required 0.9% nickel and similar amounts of Chrome. That's about 990 tons of nickel.

I'M TOLD THE JUMO-004 JUST USED 88KG nickel which= 11,250 x jumo-004 'hot sections'.

To be fair -the industrial waste in the aero engines industry[BMW-801] was ~ 5:1 for the first year based on >2000 units built[~ 440kg per hot section]. And after couple years- with 6-8000 units produced -its more like 3:1 or requiring 264kg nickel per engine.

So to produce ~ 8000 jet engines in 3 years is going to cost 2464 tons of nickel from 1942-1944.
 
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