However, also in common with its Heinkel counterpart, the Junkers bomber crews paid a terrible price in the skies over Britain; between July and October 1940, 303 of these planes were sent ...

On August 27, 1939, the HeS 3B powered the Heinkel He 178 on the world's first flight of a turbojet powered aircraft. The German Engine Industry built this non-working reproduction under the ...

The Heinkel wielded a payload of 4,400 lbs. of bombs in its internal bomb bay; self-defensive armament consisted of seven 7.92 mm MG-15 or MG81 machine guns, (two nose-mounted, one dorsal, two on ...