Expedition crew sat down next plane Heinkel He 111 ( identity V4 + DA ) of KG 1 at a German airfield , September 1939
After the Luftwaffe airfield in North Africa was successfully occupied by British troops , then turn the German planes that remains to be further investigated . It appears in the foreground of the remnants of the Heinkel He 111 and in the middle is the Messerschmitt Bf 109 . In the background is a British Hurricane landed at the former runway which has received massive bombardment from the air thus making the German planes on the air that could not be destroyed and tipped so lekdut ( junk )
Heinkel He 111 teeth in Frederick Airshow 2000
Heinkel He 111 collection of Norwegian Aviation Museum
Diagram of the Heinkel He 111
One of the bombers entered the ranks of "the most famous" Hitler in the Nazi arsenal is the Heinkel He 111 . Fact this plane is also known as one of the most famous aircraft in the ranks during World War II !
111 He was born of a factory originally was not famous at all . However, with this plane , Ernst Heinkel zeugwerke Flug ( name of the plant ) , growing rapidly into a giant aircraft industry and employs 50,000 people !
Produced 8,000 units , become standard bomber He 111 Luftwaffe bombers during world war into the arena from 1939 to 1945 and is the largest of a series of development Reichsluftfahrtministerium ( KLM - Reich Air Ministry ) or the Air Force established the ministry of Hitler in 1933 . By forming the body looks really wants Hitler 's air force penggebuk Lerman be a reliable machine .
About the success of the Heinkel He 111 did not pass regardless of the exact time when Hitler was keen - getolnya campaign for the manufacture of bombers . Coincidentally Heinkel factory is located in the middle of completing the construction of a prototype Warnemunde airliner He 70 . 's Like tit for tat , there was an agreement . The design of passenger aircraft designers then overhauled by Siegfried Günter be He 111 .
He 111 powered by two propeller engines . Body shape looks like a conical shell to the rear with a length of 17.3 meters . While the two wings which have a semi-circular shape of the tip of the wing has a long stretch of 22.5 meters . To defend themselves , the aircraft equipped with cannons on the front , top and abdomen.
With both He 111V2 prototype flight in May 1935 , the second prototype is still in the passenger version of the name of Rostock . While the third prototype 111V3 He is the second prototype of the bomber version . This model was introduced to the public on January 10, 1936 in Berlin Tempelhof Airport . In the model of the second bomber He- 111 is also equipped with canons move ( movable cannon ) B - Stand caliber of 20 mm is placed in the abdomen ( dorsal ) .
The fourth prototype He- 111V4 , a civilian version of the prototype updates . The wings are already using all metal . The aircraft is prepared for the airline Lufthansa . Unfortunately, when the taxy to test fly this aircraft to shoot buildings suffered severe destruction ! He 111V4 no longer visible history . He Gait 111 in the Luftwaffe more smoothly than in civil aviation . The first variant of this bomber , 111B He began to enter the ranks of the German Air Force service in late 1936.
Shortly after entering office , the political turmoil that led to the civil war in Spain . Germany which helped the Nationalists through the delivery Condor Legion bomber Junkers Ju 52 suffered a severe blow combatants and combatants Soviet biplane Polikarpov I- 15, which helps Republicans . Then in 1937 He 111B and sending the bomber Dornier Do 17 . Planes joined in Kampfgruppe 88 ( K/88 ) did the destruction was concentrated to Republicans .
With the help of the Spanish like to get new blood . Soviet fighter fighter attack no longer as extensive as before. Therefore , the German Heinkel bombers and Dornier able to fly higher than the Soviet combatants . In contrast , the Nationalists could be me ! Akukan equal retaliation . When the Civil War in Spain ended in May 1939 , Germany lost only 22 pieces plus 15 He 111 defective units from 95 units of this bombers were sent ! The rest , as Germany to return home , they Heinkel bombers assigned to the Spanish Air Force . one of the valuable lessons learned He 111B in the Spanish Civil War is a thin protective layer of the fuel tank . Not surprisingly, he is very vulnerable to enemy bullets . As a result , besides causing air leaks and can not return to the base , this leakage can also cause fires . 111 Therefore He then coated with a material leakage , self sealing covering. The cellulose fiber layer will automatically close the hole by gunfire .
Dated 2 September 1939 or the day after the opening attack done to Poland , the Luftwaffe deployed about 781 units of He 111 as frontline attackers .
He 111 bomber type that is easily controlled . At least that recognition pilot Leutnant Walter Leber joined in KG 53 during a raid into Poland using type P and H , " Heinkel aircraft that is easily controlled . Very powerful and high speed for its time . One weakness is that he is still weak defense weapon , "said Leber . On the battlefield He lost 111 number is reduced because the tank protection system has been used .
Weak self- defense system of He 111 really feels when the aircraft entered the arena of war " Battle of Brittain " summer 1940.
111 he fought desperately to block attacks British fighter - fighter and assault cannon anti air strikes from the ground .
Amain protective layer plane He 111 finally many were broken .
One of them depicted Oberleutnant Peter Schierning , navigator He 111 from KG53 . At that time He- 111 when the group flew to East London to the plane suddenly hit anti-aircraft cannon salvo hit . Black smoke billowing from the right engine . The pilot ordered the bomb immediately vomited . Aircraft out of formation , reversed course and seeks to enter into the cloud .
For a moment the trick is quite effective . But , when the plane out of the clouds suddenly a pair of 229 Squadron Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine from Spitfire of 19 Squadron attacked from behind . Dibokong and were fired upon from the side as it obviously makes He- 111 throe . As a result , 111 He gunner killed . The pilot continued to try to get off the plane until the end . Sought emergency landing sites . In Steplahurs , Kent , the plane landed . The mission is almost backfired . The surviving crew leave the aircraft .
In 1942 two groups of KG 26 111 He did function as a torpedo - bomber aircraft .
The bomber is tasked with the destruction of logistics carrier ships that came to the Soviet Union of North Norway . One of the successful mission was the bombing of convoy PQ 18 British ships on September 13 that year . The convoy consisted of the frigate HMS Avenger , following well - combatants Sea Hurricane aircraft . 40
supporters . HMS Avenger itself is still safe due to the protection of air antiserangan weapons . Six He 111 was damaged but still managed to return to base .
Between the years 1942-1943 He 111 flew into Stalingrad to help provide support to the Army 's sixth ( 6th German Army ) who served in that important city . Not less than 111 165 units deployed in the mission He 's from a total of about 490 aircraft of various types of Hitler ordered the Eastern Front . In this mission 111 He also suffered landing gear damage due to rough bases used .
Early in 1945 a difficult time for the He 111 operational . Germans have various Allied bombing destruction . What's worse , bombing it successfully cripple refiners who incidentally is needed to meet the needs of aircraft fuel . April 9 , approximately one month prior to the destruction of Germany , KG4 and KG5 reported only 37 He had the rest of the 111 , it was still ready to fly the amount is not more than 20 units !
For Nazi Germany , with all the limitations that the more obvious it is very difficult to activate again He 111 .
So even with the fate of He 177 Greif as the successor to the He 111 bomber . Greif could not be passed and only a few are successfully created .
Specifications ( He 111H - 16 ) :
Engines : Two 1,350 - hp Jumo 211F - 2 inverted V - 12 piston engines
Weight : 19.136 lbs Empty . , Maximum Take- off time of 30.865 lbs .
Wingspan : 74ft . 1.75in .
Length : 53ft . 9.5in .
Height : 13ft . 1.25in .
ability :
The maximum speed on the water surface : 227 mph
Maximum altitude : 21.980 ft .
Range: 1,212 miles
armament :
The fruit of 20 - mm cannon MG FF ;
The fruit of 13 - mm (0.51 - inch ) MG 131 machine gun ;
Three 7.92 - mm (0.31 - inch ) MG 81Z machine guns ;
Internal bomb load weighing 2,205 pounds .
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