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Easy Built Heinkel 112 by hjlittman. Viewed 1811 times.
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| hjlittman | 22-May-10 10:49 | | Not easy bo build without breaking it, but once it's all together it is amazingly sturdy. I replaced the six inch "white prop" that came in the kit with an eigh inch one. Made it slightly nose heavy, but easy to trim out. The trimming flights are a testiment to the "build it light enough and it can't fall hard enough to hurt itself" school of thought. With rubber and ballast it weighs 32 grams. Motot can take 1500 turns so it has a chance if there is zero wind in the morning. |
| BriandKilby | 22-May-10 11:52 | | i'm not to familiar with the he 112,can you enlighten me? was it used in the war? |
| hjlittman | 22-May-10 12:38 | | It was the competition for the Bf-109. The original "A" model was an inferior design, but it was redesigned into the He-112B that you see here. An experimental model, with the same engine as the Bf-109E turned out to have better performance than the Bf-109, but by that time, the Bf-109 was in full production and was using up all the available DB-601 engines. The He-112B was exported and used by Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, and exprimentally by the Japanese. The export version was powered by a Jumo engine of about 700 horsepower and so suffered in performance when compared to the 1175 horsepower Bf-109E. It was a might have been that suffered from timing and politics. If the Germans had actually completed an aircraft carrier it might have been resurrected as a carrier fighter with a larger engine since it had better range, was sturdier and would have had much much better deck manners than a Bf-109. |
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