Small numbers of He 111Hs were used by the Romanian Air Force in the invasion of the Soviet Union following the country’s “persuasion” into the Tripartite Pact in 1940.

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Some He 111H variants were fitted with rear-firing MG 17 machine-guns in the tailcone to deter fighters.

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Brand new Heinkel He 111s wait to be ferried to their units from one of the factories, probably Rostock, as workers file in to start the day’s work.

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This photograph was taken during the visit of a high-ranking Soviet delegation on October 29, 1939. In the background are an He 111P-2, an He 116 and an He 115 seaplane. The pilot at left is Hans Dieterle; Ernst Heinkel is the smallest man in the middle, and the fourth man to his left is Aleksandr Yakovlev, the Soviet designer.

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The stalwart of the “Thousand-Year Reich” - the Heinkel He 111.

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below He 111Ps were manufactured at Wismar and Rostock, and differed from the He 111H by having two 1,015 h.p. DB 601A engines. Production of the P-variant totalled 834 aircraft.

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Heinkel He 111 V32 D-APZD, a Heinkel-built P-2 (WNr 2122) was modified in Bremen in 1941 for high-flying trials with DB 601U engines and TK 9 AC turbosuperchargers.

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Series production of He 111H-5s at Marienehe with Werknummers 3811 and 3812 visible. VE+CX is WNr 3804.

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Groundcrew fit a pair of practice LT F5b torpedoes on He 111H-5 BK+CO at the Luftwaffe Grossenbrode torpedo school.

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He 111H and P- variants, built with the characteristic asymmetric fully-glazed nose, were by far the most widely used in Luftwaffe service.

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A NEW GERMAN BOMBER: A revised version of the Heinkel He.111 bomber is in service with the Luftwaffe as shown in these views secured during the recent German exercises. It has a shorter, roomier nose and an external lower gun position or observation post. The engines can be Daimler Benz D.601s or Junkers Ju.211s.
In 1939, German military exercises increased dramatically in preparation for the impending war. Here three He 111Hs come in to land during an exercise in the summer.

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Test pilot Kurt Heinrich (left) chief test pilot Nitschke (centre) and chief constructor Karl Schwarzler examine a cockpit mock-up.

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J.H. Clark's cutaway drawing of the He 111 first appeared in the November 2, 1939 issue of The Aeroplane. The K in the designation was a shortening of the generic term Kampfflugzeug (military aircraft).

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The fuselage of the He 111 consisted of transverse frames and longitudinal stringers of modified top-hat section, to which the smooth skin was riveted. The frames were of Z-section, and not attached directly to the skin.

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Heinkel He 111H

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A fine shot of D-AOKE in flight, demonstrating the elliptical wing of the early He 111s. The designation of these early bombers, usually called He 111D-0s, is still not clear.

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This is the only known photograph of the Heinkel He 111V1 prototype, D-ADAP, in civil markings. The aircraft, WNr 713, made its first flight in the hands of Gerhard Nitschke.

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This rare photograph shows He 111 V2 D-ALIX at a stop in Africa. Rostock was lost in an accident in the Gambia on March 12, 1937.

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Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Heinkel He-111 - ГерманияGermany - 1935

D-ANLH (WNr 2344) was taken from the Heinkel-built F-series and used as a testbed at Rechlin. With this version the third wing with a straight leading edge was introduced.

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The third He 111 prototype, D-ALES, was built as a bomber variant, and is seen here at the Luftwaffe’s test centre at Rechlin. Note the two-bladed propellers and nose gun.

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With its retractable coolers and Jumo 211 engines, this He 111E is distinguished from the He 111F only by the wing’s curved leading edge.

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He 111Es under construction at the Dornier Factory at Wismar. The whole production of the He 111 was divided into precisely-timed procedures, each section being passed between teams at calculated intervals.

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D-AHAO was the fourth prototype, and was demonstrated to the public by Nitschke in January 1936. He thrilled the crowds by fully displaying the aircraft on one engine.

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In the civil He 111s, luggage and mail was stowed in the unglazed nose compartment, which replaced the bomb-aimer’s position. Here a cargo handler loads mail from a BMW van.

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The He 111s built for Turkey were designated as He 111 Js, identical to the He 111F except for the non-retractable coolers. The first left for Eskisehir on October 19, 1937.

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The installation of two Daimler Benz D.B.600 inverted vees in a Heinkel bomber of the German Air Force. An engine of this type is exhibited at Paris.
This picture of an He 111B-1 and its DB 600 engines was one of a series released for publication in The Aeroplane in 1938. All B-1 variants were manufactured at Rostock.

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With its 660 h.p. BMW VI engines roaring, an He 111C prepares for a passenger flight. As the He 111 had originally been conceived as a bomber, its adaptation into an airliner was found to be somewhat uneconomical, but Lufthansa operated 12 of the type on various routes until September 1939.

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Only the new factory in Oranienburg produced the Heinkel He 111J. Note the straight wing and DB 600 engines.

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Heinkel He 111B D-AANU sits in front of one of the hangars at the Heinkel factory at Oranienburg. This may have been a propaganda shot, as all Bs were built at Rostock or Wismar.

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By January 1937, four He 111Bs had been sent to Spain to equip Kampfgruppe 88, part of the newly-formed Condor Legion, a Spanish Nationalist unit made up of Luftwaffe crew.

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A rare photograph of a He 111Z “Zwilling” in flight, taken from the port cockpit. Two variants other than the tow aircraft were considered; the He 111Z-2 long-range bomber, and the He 111Z-3 reconnaissance aircraft. Both were authorised but neither was ever built.

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Самолет-буксировщик Хейнкель He 111Z "Цвиллинг"
The incredible He 111Z in which two He 111-6 bombers were joined together by a new wing section carrying a fifth engine.
The unusual He 111Z proved to be a highly effective glider tug, and the only aircraft in the Luftwaffe inventory that could tow the giant Messerschmitt Me 321 glider without difficulty.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Heinkel He-111Z Zwilling - ГерманияGermany - 1941