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Data from Heinkel He 111: A Documentary History General characteristics Crew: 5 (pilot, navigator/bombardier/ nose gunner, ventral gunner, dorsal gunner/radio operator, side gunner) Length: 16.4 m (53 ft 10 in) Wingspan: 22.6 m (74 ft 2 in) Height: 4 m (13 ft 1 in) Wing area: 87.6 m 2 (943 sq ft) Empty weight: 8,680 kg (19,136 lb) Gross weight: 12,030 kg (26,522 lb) Max takeoff weight: 14,000 ...
The first bomber version of the Heinkel He 111 to enter production was the He 111A-0, with a pre-production batch of 10 aircraft being ordered for service evaluation late in 1935. Performance of these aircraft, powered by two BMW VI engines, was disappointing, and the aircraft were rejected by the Luftwaffe .
The Ju 88 was recovered in late 2003, in an operation that also saw the recovery of a Heinkel He 111 H-2 6N+NH (Wk Nr 2320) and the tail section of a second Ju 88. [99] Ju 88 A-4, Werk Nr. 0881478 4D+AM (ex-Stammkennzeichen of BH+QQ) This aircraft, formerly of 4.Staffel/Kampfgeschwader 30 is displayed at the Norwegian Aviation Museum at Bodø ...
The prototype Ju 88B V1, D-AUVS, flew for the first time with the 801A/B engines in early 1940.The fuselage and tail surfaces were identical to the Ju 88 A-1, which presented a problem: with the extra power, 1,560 PS (1,150 kW; 1,540 hp), the design could now carry considerably more load than the small bomb bay could fit.
It crash landed near the small hamlet of Humbie, near the town of Dalkeith in East Lothian, Scotland, [4] [7] and is often referred to as the 'Humbie Heinkel'. Archie McKellar was credited with the victory. [8] On 22 February 1940, a Heinkel He 111 bomber from KG 26 bombed and sank the Z1 Leberecht Maass, who lost 280 of her crew and was ...
Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever" (KG 4) (Battle Wing 4) was a Luftwaffe bomber wing during World War II. The unit was formed in May 1939. The unit operated the Dornier Do 17, Junkers Ju 88 and Heinkel He 111 medium bombers, with later service on the Heinkel He 177 heavy bomber.
The He 70 is known mainly as the ancestor to the Heinkel He 111, which had similar elliptical wings and streamlined fuselage in a twin-engined configuration. The He 111, which began service with the Luftwaffe in 1936, went on to become the most numerous bomber type of the Luftwaffe – with just over 5,600 examples produced during the war in ...
The founding of the Norwegian Aviation Historical Society in 1967, gave the first boost to the idea of preserving aircraft in Norway. The Collection's Heinkel He 111 and Northrop N-3PB are among the aircraft traced, recovered and restored at the instigation of the NAHS. From the latter part of the 1970s onwards, a considerable number of ...