Arado Ar 68
Description
Role	Biplane Fighter
Crew	1
First Flight	1934
Manufacturer	Heinkel
Dimensions
Length	9.4 m	30.84 ft
Wingspan	11.58 m	37.99 ft
Height	3.3 m	10.83 ft
Wing Area	N/A
Weights
Empty	1600 kg	3,538 lb
Powerplant
Engine	Junkers Jumo 210 Ea
Power	671 hp
Performance
Maximum speed	335 km/h	215 mph
Range	500 km	270 miles
Service ceiling	12800 m	41995 ft
Armament
2 × 7.9mm MG 17, light bombs
Ar 68 in early Nazi markings

The Arado Ar 68 was a single seat biplane aircraft developed in the mid 1930s. It was among the first fighters produced when Germany abandoned the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles and began rearming. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (947x817, 190 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Arado Ar 68 ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1934: Events January Soviet pilots Fedossenko, Wassenko and Usyskin take the stratosphere-balloon Ossoaviachim I to 22,000 m (72,160 ft). ... Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. ... Image File history File links Ar-68-1. ... Arado Flugzeugwerke was originally established as the Warnemünde factory of the Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen firm. ... Hs123 biplane. ... A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for attacking other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs. ... Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the peace treaty created as a result of six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which put an official end to World War I between the Allies and Central Powers. ...

Designed to replace the Heinkel He 51, the Ar 68 proved to have admirable handling characteristics on its first flight in early 1934 despite Heinkel's inability to secure a sufficiently powerful engine for the prototype. Eventually a Junkers Jumo 210 was installed and the Ar 68 went into production, though not before worries about the unforgiving nature of such a high-performance aircraft almost cancelled the project. The Heinkel He 51 was a single-seat biplane which was produced in a number of different versions. ...

The Ar 68 entered service with the Luftwaffe in 1936 and one of the first units was stationed in East Prussia. Soon the fighter was sent to fight in the Spanish Revolution where it was outclassed by the stumpy Russian Polikarpov I-16. Arado responded by upgrading the engine of the Ar-68E, which soon became the Luftwaffe's most widely-used fighter in 1937-8 before being replaced by the Messerschmitt Bf 109. The last He 68s served as night fighters in the winter of 1939-40 and fighter-trainers. In Spanish history, there have been several revolutions. ... The Polikarpov I-16 was the worlds most advanced fighter aircraft when it was introduced in the mid-1930s, and soon formed the majority of the Soviet Air Forces units. ... (Bf 109 was the official Reichsluftfahrtministerium designation, since the design was sent in by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke company. ...

Major Models:

• Ar 68V1 : Prototype, powered by a (660hp) BMW VI piston engine. First flight in 1933.
• Ar 68E : First type to enter Luftwaffe service, powered by a (610hp) Junkers Jumo 210 piston engine.
• Ar 68F : Powered by a (670hp) BMW VI piston engine.
• Ar 68G : Most Produced Variant, BMW VI piston engine (670hp+)
• Ar 68H : This model was never built.