Heinkel He 49

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Heinkel He 49
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Type: Fighter / test aircraft
Design country:

German EmpireGerman Empire German Empire

Manufacturer:

Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke

First flight:

November 1932

Production time:

1932

Number of pieces:

1 test aircraft

The Heinkel He 49 ( HD 49 ) was a single-engine fighter aircraft made by Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1932. It could be equipped with a rigid landing gear with a split axle and grinding spur, but also with double floats .

history

The HD 49a fighter aircraft (Wnr. 371, registration D-2363, later D-IREH) was manufactured as a one-off piece for the Navy in 1931/32 . The flights took place from November 1932 at the See trial site in Travemünde and at the Rechlin trial site . There, the aircraft was compared and tested in aerial combat with both the predecessor model Heinkel HD 38 and the fighter Arado Ar 65 . The HD 49 , however, was judged by the Army Weapons Office to be "very complicated in structure and consequently absolutely unsuitable for series production", so that no further copies were built. The required simplification was finally taken into account in the further development, the He 51 .

technical description

The aircraft was a single-handled, braced one-and-a -half-decker with a smaller wing span and profile depth and with ailerons only on the upper surface. The fuselage consisted of a welded tubular steel framework with a rectangular cross-section and was clad in the front part up to the pilot's seat with removable light metal sheets. The remaining part was made oval with wooden strips and covered with fabric. The tail units braced against each other and towards the fuselage were fabric-covered metal frames. All rudders were aerodynamic and mass balanced.

General data

Parameter Data from the Heinkel He 49a
crew 1
length 8.24 m
span above: 11.00 m
below: 8.60 m
height 3.20 m
Wing area 27.20 m²
Wing extension 7.1
payload 480 kg
Max. Takeoff mass 1950 kg
Top speed 325 km / h
Service ceiling 8000 m
Range 700 km
Engines 1 × BMW VI with 750 PS (551 kW)
Armament 2 × 7.92 mm rigid MG 17 in the fuselage

See also

Web links

Commons : Heinkel He 49  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flight log pilot Heinz Simon, from the test site Travemünde
  2. ↑ H.Beauvais / K.Kössler / M.Mayer / C.Regel: The German flight test points to 1945 . Pp. 76-78. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1998
  3. ^ Rüdiger Kosin: The development of the German fighter planes P. 77.Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1983