Combat Sorties [Archive] - The Great Planes and warbirds Community

Che_Guevara

26th October 2005, 07:39

Heyho,
any sites known or knowledge about combat sorties or the Heinkel He-111B itself during the Spanish Civil War?

Look, isn´t that a beautiful bird??

http://decals.kitreview.com/decals/images/ced48244previewbg_1.jpg

http://hsfeatures.com/images/he111bms_title.jpg

andyo2000

26th October 2005, 11:04

http://www.aire.org/gce/english/nac/he_111.htm

Quite a bit on the He-111B and the Spanish Civil War. Definitely worth checking out.

i16stealth

27th October 2005, 20:56

You can use MY site, but now it's in Russian only :)

I can translate and post the available information here, if you want to.

Lightning

27th October 2005, 22:40

Hi Che,

That He-111B surly is a beautiful airplane. I especially like the planform of the wing.

The model shown in your posting is great looking. Did you build it yourself?

Regards,
Lightning

Che_Guevara

28th October 2005, 01:46

hey all

@ andyo200, thx for the link, was quite interessting. Especcialy that they sunk the republican destroyer "Ciscar"

http://www.angelfire.com/on2/militaria/images/ciscar.JPG

@i16stealth,thx for that. With pleasure, everythin you can get about the engagement of the Heinkels ;)

@Lightnin´
Unfortunately it´s not my model, it looks very good indeed, but I´ve never seen a model kit of the B-Version, so I wondered. Perhaps he used scratch-building to build it ?!
By teh way it seems that the B-Version looks a little bit like a small B-17.

Regards,
Che.

BlackWolf3945

28th October 2005, 10:20

The model was built by a fella named Matt Swan.

Here's the conversion set he used:

http://www.swannysmodels.com/He111BJ.html

Here's the construction article on his website:

http://www.swannysmodels.com/Pedro.html

Fade to Black...

i16stealth

28th October 2005, 17:08

Here's some statistics about He.111:

First He.111B-1 (30 planes) appeared in Spain in 1937, later nationalists received about 30 He-111B-1 and B-2 (in total 95, counting He.111E). The only republican plane capable to shot it down was I-16. During the war 37 He.111s was lost, at least nine of them (types are unknown) were shot by "Ishak". In 08/13/1938 one He.111 (probably B) was landed by republican I-16s and later sent to USSR.