Heinkel He 118

Infobox Aircraft
name = He 118


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type = Dive bomber
national origin = flag|Nazi Germany
manufacturer = Heinkel
designer = Siegfried and Walter Günter
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number built = 15
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variants with their own articles = The Heinkel He 118 was a German dive bomber design that competed with the Junkers Ju 87 for production, but was never ordered for the Luftwaffe. Designed by the Günter brothers, it was a conventional cantilever monoplane with an inverted gull wing of elliptical planform mounted mid-way up the fuselage. It was considerably more streamlined than Junkers' competitor, with retractable undercarriage and an internal bay for its bombs.

In trials, however, it was discovered that its maximum dive angle was only 50 degrees, and after Ernst Udet destroyed one of the prototypes in the air by flying it outside its design limits it was judged unsuitable and dropped from the competition.

Only 15 were built and two of these were given to Japan, where they were given the designation DXHe and provided the inspiration for the Yokosuka D4Y naval dive bomber. One of the other examples was used by the Heinkel company as a flying testbed for the Heinkel HeS 3 turbojet.

Variants

* He 118 : Dive-bomber prototypes.
* He 118A-1 : Eight production aircraft, powered by a 850-hp (634-kW) DB 600C engine.

pecifications (He 118)

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length main= 11.80 m
length alt= 38 ft 8 in
span main= 15.00 m
span alt= 49 ft 4 in
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area main= 37.7 m²
area alt=406 ft²
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empty weight main= 2,450 kg
empty weight alt= 5,400 lb
loaded weight main= 3,775 kg
loaded weight alt= 8,320 lb
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engine (prop)= Daimler-Benz DB 600C
type of prop=12-cylinder liquid-cooled supercharged piston engine
number of props=1
power main= 656 kW
power alt= 880 hp
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max speed main= 395 km/h
max speed alt= 250 mph
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range main= 1,250 km
range alt= 780 mi
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loading main= 100 kg/m²
loading alt= 20 lb/ft²
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power/mass main= 0.17 kW/kg
power/mass alt= 0.11 hp/lb
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armament=
* 2 × fixed forward-firing 7.92 mm MG 17 machine guns
* 1 × flexible rearward-firing 7.92 mm MG 15 machine gun
* Up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) of bombs

ee also

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* Yokosuka D4Y
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* List of military aircraft of Germany
* List of military aircraft of Japan
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