Heinkel He 70F
Description
Role	Reconnaissance Bomber
Crew	2
First Flight	December 1, 1932
Manufacturer	Heinkel
Dimensions
Length	12 m	39 ft 4.5 in
Wingspan	14.80 m	48 ft 6.75 in
Height	3.1 m	10 ft 2 in
Wing Area	N/A
Weights
Empty	2360 kg	5,203 lb
Loaded	3460 kg	7,630 lb
Powerplant
Engine	BMW VI 7.3 12-cylinder water-cooled vee
Power	750 hp
Performance
Maximum speed	360 km/h	224 mph
Range	900 km	559 miles
Service ceiling	N/A
Armament
One 7.92mm MG 15 machine gun aimed from rear cockpit Six 110 lb. (50 kg) or twenty four 22 lb. (10 kg) bombs internally Image File history File links Copyright in this image is believed to have expired - photo taken in Germany pre-1945. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from Canadian Siskins aerobatic team is retired. ... Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. ...
He 70

The Heinkel He 70 Blitz was designed in the early 1930s to serve as a fast mailplane for Deutsche Lufthansa. Although useful, it had a relatively brief commercial career before it was replaced by types which could carry more passengers. As a combat aircraft it was a not a great success because it rapidly became outdated. Nevertheless, the He 70 was a brilliant design for its day, setting no fewer than eight world speed records by the beginning of 1933. The main characteristics of its revolutionary design were its elliptical wing, which the Günther brothers had already used in the Bäumer Sausewind sports plane before they joined Heinkel, and its small, rounded control surfaces. Image File history File links Copyright in this image is believed to have expired - photo taken in Germany pre-1945. ... A mailplane is an aircraft used for carrying mail. ... Lufthansa Boeing 737 Lufthansa Airbus A300 Lufthansa Avro RJ-85 Lufthansa is the name of the largest German airline company, headquartered in Cologne. ... A passenger is a person using but not operating an airplane, train, bus or other mode of transport. ... A Laughing Gull on the beach in Atlantic City. ... Aircraft flight controls allow a pilot to guide his plane to the destination. ...

The He 70 is known mainly as the direct ancestor of the famous Heinkel He 111 which used its distinctive oval wings and streamlined fuselage in a twin-engine configuration. One can also see the close similarity of the designs in the tail section and cockpit of the early He 111. The He 111, which began service with the Luftwaffe in 1936, went on to become the major bomber type in the early years of World War II. He 111K The Heinkel He 111 was the primary Luftwaffe medium bomber during the early stages of World War II, and is perhaps the most famous symbol of the German side of the Battle of Britain. ... The Deutsche Luftwaffe or (German: air force, literally Air Arm or Air Weapon, IPA: [luftvafÉ™]) is the commonly used term for the German air force. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the use of images on this page may require cleanup, involving adjustment of image placement, formatting, size, or other adjustments. ...

Heinkel's pioneering design was also a model for the Heinkel He 112 fighter which competed unsuccessfully against the Messerschmitt Bf 109 to become the Luftwaffe's first monoplane fighter. The He 112 was nonetheless built in small numbers and its performance proved once again the strength of the He 70's original design. The fighter was basically a scaled down version of the He 70 and shared its all-metal construction and inverted gull-wings. The Heinkel He 112 was a fighter aircraft designed by Walter and Siegfried Günter at Heinkel. ... The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt in the early 1930s. ...

The He 70 was exported to Japan for study and inspired the Aichi D3A (Val) carrier-launched light bomber. This plane too shared the He 70's distinctive low-mounted oval wings and was only one of several collaborations between Heinkel and the Japanese aviation industry. The Aichi D3A (99式艦上爆撃機, Allied code name Val) was a World War II dive bomber produced by the Aichi company in Japan. ...

While the He 70 saw only limited service in training capacities during World War II, it was the Luftwaffe's first Schnellbomber and served as the antecedent for the majority of bombers involved in both the Battle of Britain and the Attack on Pearl Harbor. A Schnellbomber (German, literally fast bomber) was a specialized high-speed bomber aircraft. ... Combatants United Kingdom Germany Italy Commanders Hugh Dowding Hermann Göring Albert Kesselring Strength 700 fighters 1,260 bombers, 316 dive-bombers, 1,089 fighters Casualties 1,547 aircraft, 27,450 civilian dead, 32,138 wounded 2,698 aircraft One of the major campaigns of the early part of World... Combatants United States Empire of Japan Commanders Husband Kimmel (USN), Walter Short (USA) Chuichi Nagumo (IJN) Strength 8 battleships, 8 cruisers, 29 destroyers, 9 submarines, ~50 other ships, ~390 planes 6 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers, 8 tankers, 23 fleet submarines, 5 midget submarines, 441 planes Casualties...

The He-70K, a fast reconnaissance airplane variant equipped with a licence-made (originally French) 1000bhp radial engine was used by the Royal Hungarian Air Force in early WWII during 1941-42. The main weakness of the He 70 design soon became obvious. The He 70 airframe was made out of so-called "electron metal", a very light, yet strong alloy of magnesium, which burns spontaneously in air when heated, and is only exhausted when covered in sand. A single hit from a light machine gun usually set the entire plane ablaze, killing the crew. The Hungarian He-70K fleet was promptly retired and replaced with vintage, high-wing He-46 monoplanes until modern Me-109 fighter-recce and specialized FW-189 "Uhu" medium altitude observation aircraft could be introduced. Radial engine of a biplane. ... General Name, Symbol, Number magnesium, Mg, 12 Chemical series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2, 3, s Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 24. ...

Civil Operators

• Lufthansa

Lufthansa (Deutsche Lufthansa AG) is the largest German airline. ...

Military Operators

• Germany
• Hungary
• Spain

LINKS

• Photograph of a Heinkel He 70 Luftwaffe ashtray taken from Halle airfield in May 1945