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5 unusual facts about Heinkel


Blackbushe Airport

The finest was, perhaps, a Heinkel bomber which, unfortunately, was sold in order to purchase a replacement which then crashed soon afterwards.

Leopold Blauensteiner

He was able in 1944 to stop the installation of a production unit of the Heinkel Aircraft Works in the Künstlerhaus.

Ludwig Bölkow

Bölkow’s first job was with Heinkel, the aircraft company, before studying aero-engineering at the Technical University in Berlin.

Marienehe Charterhouse

The site was later used for the construction of the Heinkel works, and after the war for the Rostock Fischkombinat ("fishery centre").

Operation Ruthless

A German Heinkel was prepared with an aircrew of German-speaking Englishmen.


45th Portable Surgical Hospital

The ship was destroyed by a radio controlled glide bomb, a Henschel Hs 293, launched and controlled by a Heinkel 177 bomber.

August Landmesser

The company had a branch at the Heinkel-Werke (factory) in Warnemünde.

Bubble car

Most bubble cars were manufactered in Germany, including by the former German military aircraft manufacturers, Messerschmitt and Heinkel.

CASA 2.111

There was a need for more modern aircraft, however, so in 1940, CASA negotiated a contract with Heinkel to produce 200 examples of the newer He 111 H-16 in Seville.

GE Jenbacher

The plant made brake pads for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, and from 1939 they made aeroplane parts and rocket motors for Heinkel.

Heinkel He 274

These proposed aircraft were shortly thereafter officially given the airframe project number 8-274 by the RLM, and due to the heavily preoccupied Heinkel factory design offices and aircraft manufacturing facilities, this new "He 274" high-altitude bomber was to have its prototypes built in France by the Societe des Usines Farman (Farman Brothers) in Suresnes.

Heinkel He 70

It was a low-wing monoplane, with the main characteristics of its revolutionary design 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.

Swissair received a few Heinkel He-70s for express trans-alpine flights between Zurich and Milan in 1934.

Heinkel HeS 1

The engineers were convinced, and in April, von Ohain and Hahn were set up at Heinkel's works at the Marienehe airfield outside Rostock, Germany in Warnemünde.

Junkers Jumo 004

The feasibility of jet propulsion had been demonstrated in Germany in early 1937 by Hans von Ohain working with the Heinkel company.

RLM aircraft designation system

(*) Although Hütter never worked for Heinkel, his only aircraft project, the Hü 211 was a development of the Heinkel 219 with a new high aspect-ratio high-performance wing.


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