Heinkel

Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a company of German manufacture of planes founded by Ernst Heinkel. It built many bombers for the Luftwaffe during the Second world war and brought a certain number of contributions to the flight at high-speed.

The company settled with Warnemunde in 1922 whereas the restrictions imposed by the Traité of Versailles on German aviation were slackened. The first great success of the company was the Heinkel He 70, a fast transport aircraft of mail designed for the Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1932. The plane beat a great number of speed records for its class and was followed Heinkel He 111. The two important originators of Heinkel at that time were the twins Günter, Siegfried and Walter, like Heinrich Hertel.

The Heinkel company is more particularly associated with the planes used by Luftwaffe during the Second world war. That began with the adaptation of the Heinkel He 70 and in particular of Heinkel 111 so that they can be used as bombers (this last was even used on an experimental basis as launcher of V1). In this role, He 111 became a sure value of Luftwaffe. Heinkel also provides to Luftwaffe its larger heavy bomber, the Heinkel He 177, even if it were never deployed of big number. Heinkel obtained less success by selling hunters: before the war, the Heinkel He 112 was isolated in favor of famous the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the efforts of Heinkel to exceed this plane with the Heinkel He 100 were reduced to nothing because of internal political interferences to the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (ministry for the Aviation of Reich). The company also provides to Luftwaffe excellent a night Chasseur, the Heinkel He 219.

Heinkel was also one of the pioneers in work on the jets (see Hans von Ohain) and on the rocket S. In 1939, the Heinkel He 176 and the Heinkel He 178 became the first planes to be flown respectively using rockets to Carburant liquid and of Turboréacteur S and Heinkel was the first to develop a jet fighter until manufacturing a prototype, the Heinkel He 280. This late plane never reaches the production however, because the Reichsluftfahrtministerium wanted that Heinkel concentrates on the production of bomber S and supported rather its competitor Messerschmitt so that it develops the Me 262. Very tardily during the war, a jet fighter Heinkel took off, the Heinkel He 162, but it had hardly entered in service when Germany capitulated.

After the war, Heinkel did not have any more the right to build planes and the company started to manufacture Bicyclette S, Vélomoteur S and Mobylette S. the company manufactured again plane about the middle of the Années 1950 by building under license the F-104 Starfighter for the Luftwaffe of the West Germany.

In 1965, the company was absorbed by Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW) which itself was then absorbed by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm in 1980.

Planes built by Heinkel

Heinkel He 37, hunter (biplane)
Heinkel He 38, hunter (biplane)
Heinkel He 43, hunter (biplane)
Heinkel He 45, bomber + drive
Heinkel He 46, recognition
Heinkel He 49, hunter (biplane)
Heinkel He 50, recognition + bomber in piqué (biplane)
Heinkel He 51, hunter + support brought closer (biplane)
Heinkel He 59, recognition (biplane seaplane)
Heinkel He 60 , seaplane of recognition (biplane seaplane)
Heinkel He 70, Blitz (flash), single-engined aircraft of transport + plane mail, 1932
Heinkel He 72 Kadett (junior), drive
Heinkel He 74, hunter + advanced drive (prototype)
Heinkel He 100, hunter
Heinkel He 111, bomber
Heinkel He 112, hunter
Heinkel He 113, (alternative designation for He 100)
Heinkel He 114, recognition seaplane
Heinkel He 115, seaplane of general use
Heinkel He 116, transport + recognition
Heinkel He 119, single-engined aircraft fast bomber (prototype), recognition, 1937
Heinkel He 120, four-engined plane with long operating range, airliner (project), 1938
Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger (Hunter of the people), hunter (reaction)
Heinkel He 172, drive (prototype)
Heinkel He 176, experimental, propelled by rockets (prototype)
Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffon), bomber with long operating range
Heinkel He 178, experimental jet
Heinkel He 219 Uhu (owl large duke), night hunter
Heinkel He 274, bomber of high-altitude
Heinkel He 280, hunter (reaction)
Heinkel He 343,
Heinkel He 519, fast bomber (derivative of He 119) (project), 1944

Heinkel He 59 - Data sheet by Hydravore.com
Heinkel He 60 - Data sheet by Hydravore.com

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