Heinkel He 118

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Heinkel He 118
Heinkel He 118
Type: Dive fighter
Design country:

German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire

Manufacturer:

Heinkel

First flight:

February 14, 1936

Number of pieces:

5

The Heinkel He 118 was a German dive bomber that was developed by Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in the late 1930s.

history

The machine emerged from a design competition for a dive fighter aircraft announced in 1936 by the Technical Office in the Reich Aviation Ministry , following a suggestion by Ernst Udet . In addition to the He 118, the Arado Ar 81 and the Junkers Ju 87 , which won the tender, were also involved in the comparison flight . In contrast to its competitors, the He 118 already had a retractable landing gear and an aerodynamically optimized shape. The aircraft was a cantilever low-wing aircraft in all-metal - shell construction designed. The two crew members sat behind one another under a closed sliding hood.

The first two prototypes received English Rolls-Royce Kestrel V-engines with 695 hp each. The third prototype - the He 118 V3 - received a Daimler-Benz DB 600 V with 910 hp. This aircraft took part in the comparison flight at the end of 1936, but in contrast to all other aircraft, it could not complete a dive because it had not yet been fully developed. This fact and the crash of the V3 were the end of the project. The last prototype received the Daimler-Benz DB 601 A engine with 1070 hp in 1937 .

use

The He 118 was approved for export to Japan. The V4 (D-OMOL, factory no. 1296) was dismantled in February 1938 and shipped to Japan, upgraded in the Yokosuka naval aviation arsenal and flown by several pilots. The type designation was DXHel. It was supposed to be mass-produced at Hitachi Seisakusho, but it crashed and series production was abandoned. Months later, the army aviators also received their He 118 (V5, serial number 1850). Here, too, there was no series production. Nevertheless, the experience served as the basis for the construction of the Yokosuka D4Y .

Technical specifications

He 118 V1
Parameter Data He 118 V1
span 15.00 m
length 11.80 m
Altitude in flight attitude 3.10 m
Wing area 56.2 m²
Empty mass 2450 kg
Top speed 395 km / h
Landing speed 115 km / h
Service ceiling 8500 m
Range 1650 km
fuel 475 kg
Engine a Daimler-Benz DB 600 C with 800 PS (588 kW)
Armament two MG 17 firing forward

a MG 15 for the gunner
a 250 kg bomb

See also

literature

  • Hans Redemann: Flight Revue. May 1971
  • Volker Koos: Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke 1933–1945. Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2003.

Web links

Commons : Heinkel He 118  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Koos: Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke 1933–1945. Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2003, p. 79.
  2. ↑ EHF data sheet No. 1090a of April 20, 1937