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On this day, December 1, 1932, a new German monoplane made its maiden flight, the Heinkel He 70. Nicknamed the Blitz (lightning), it was built as a new mailplane for the German carrier Deutsche ...
The Case for the Heinkel He 111. The He 111 made its maiden flight on February 24, 1935, and entered into the official operational service of “die Vaterland” later that year.
Soon the He 51 was being replaced in Spain by prototypes of the Messerschmitt Bf-109 and the new Heinkel He 112. The He 51’s were relegated to mainly close support and ground attack roles into 1937.
A British-captured Heinkel He 219 bearing its nose-mounted radar array, circa May 1945 in South Jutland, Denmark. Luftwaffe night fighters had unprecedented success tracking RAF aircraft.