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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 .
Heinkel was the first to develop a jet fighter to prototype stage, the Heinkel He 280, the first Heinkel design to use and fly with retractable tricycle gear. In early 1942, the photographic interpretation unit at RAF Medmenham first saw evidence of the existence of the 280 in aerial reconnaissance photographs taken after a bombing raid on the ...
Sonderkommando Blaich was an Axis force comprising German and Italian personnel, equipped with a He 111H-6 from II/ Kampfgeschwader 4 with all excess equipment, including the dorsal and ventral guns removed, a Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 (Marsupiale) transport aircraft carrying extra fuel for the Heinkel and Blaich's Taifun, which were to depart ...
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.
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 ...
The CASA 2.111 is a medium bomber derived from the Heinkel He 111 and produced in Spain under licence by Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA). The 2.111 models differed significantly in details from Heinkel's wartime He 111H design while using essentially the same airframe in appearance, featuring heavier armament and eventually Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.
The Gruppe (group) was assigned the Heinkel He 111 medium bomber. The first batch of aircraft were E variants, with traditional stepped-cockpit, in contrast to the widely recognised Stepless cockpit of the later He 111P and -H models. The Gruppe was placed under the command of Gruppenkommandeur (Group Commander) Oberstleutnant Robert Krauss.