The Heinkel He 111, one of the best-recognized German bombers of World War II, was developed in the early 1930s by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke as Germany's secret project ...

O n this day, December 1, 1932, a new German monoplane made its maiden flight, the Heinkel He 70. ... The winning entry was offered by Ernst Heinkel, founder of the Heinkel Aircraft Works, ...

However, also in common with its Heinkel counterpart, the Junkers bomber crews paid a terrible price in the skies over Britain; between July and October 1940, 303 of these planes were sent ...

World war one, and two, brought out many advancements in the sciences alongside their grim death tolls. Among them was the jet, which saw its first test flight in 1939, but never found use in the war.

The biography does not mention the He 177 bomber. In 1941, Heinkel used 6,000-8,000 prisoners at ... employed slave labor to build his aircraft. You cannot ignore Heinkel’s role in the German ...

World War I also demonstrated the bomber’s vulnerability to a new enemy: the fighter, a smaller, faster aircraft optimized for air-to-air combat. Getty Images A German zeppelin over occupied ...

It was built by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, the German aircraft manufacturer best known for building the He-111 heavy bomber that had made life miserable for Londoners during the Battle of Britain.

The Heinkel He 51 was soon replaced in Spain with early Messerschmitt Bf- 109 models; the one shown here is a “C” model. The Bf-109s carried a “6” on the fuselage indicating aircraft type.

The turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft, took its first flight on August 27, 1939. It was flown by German test pilot Erich Warsitz. The Heinkel He 178 was a private venture ...