Heinkel He 112

The Heinkel He 112 was a German fighter plane, which was commissioned by Ernst Heinkel as a project for the fighter competition of the RLM in October 1935 in order. Constructed it was by the brothers Walter and Siegfried Günter.

History of development

The aim here was to find a modern successor model for the obsolete German biplane fighter ( Heinkel He 51 and Arado Ar 68). The tests and the comparison with the competitors Bf 109, FW 159 and 80 Ar were carried out by the testing station See in Travemünde. The V2 D- IHGE crashed on 15 April 1936. From the Commission of the open pilot's seat was criticized, even if this was welcomed by the pilot and at that time was completely normal. It was also criticized that the landing gear was struck in the wings. This violated a requirement of the tender, which demanded that the body be without wing mounted independently movable, and on railroad cars of the Deutsche Reichsbahn should be verladefähig in compliance with the clearance profile. This should facilitate the maintenance of the aircraft on airfields; it should further enable the changing of damaged wings without special devices, and also facilitate the recovery and collection of foreign aircraft landed. The results from this demand low gauge of the chassis resulted in the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the winner of the tender, but later often to many takeoff and landing accidents especially in crosswinds. This requirement was therefore not observed in all other tenders.

Heinkel and the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke ( Messerschmitt AG from 1938 ) but secured only once orders over ten pre-production aircraft of the types He 112 and Bf 109, because for the time being, the Commission was unable to find a clear judgment.

In a later comparison flight the RLM decided for the Bf 109 as the new standard fighter of the Luftwaffe, as Heinkel should focus on the bomber He 111, also the Bf 109 was simple and above all to produce also much cheaper than the He 112

The development of the He 112 A to Version B, however, was continued. This introduced the Jumo 210Ea engine and was equipped with two 20 -mm MG FF and two 7.92 mm MG 17.

Due to the decision of the RLM for the Bf 109, the He 112 was however released for export. Customer were, among others, the Imperial Japanese Air Force.

From December 1936 the ninth prototype ( V9 ) was tested in service with the Condor Legion in Spain. It was destroyed in July 1937 in a crash landing.

Were built following versions:

Construction numbers of the He 112 1935-1938:

A total of 13 prototype for the development of He 112 were used.

Exports of the He 112:

It was also a license for the reproduction of Hungary ( of Csepel - Manfréd White) sold. The local government ordered twelve machines in operation, of which only three came to delivery.

The last 112 He contributed to the 1950 - years of service in Spain. Today, no machine is obtained.

Specifications

2 x MG FF fixed rigidly in the area forward

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