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404:. The two engines were inclined inwards by 30° when mounted onto either side of their common, vertical-plane space-frame primary engine mount so that the inner cylinder banks were disposed almost vertically. A common gear-housing connected the front ends of the two crankcases, with the two crankshaft pinions driving a single airscrew shaft gear. The outer sides of each of the component engines' crankcases were connected to the nacelle firewall through forged mountings similar to what would be used for either a single DB 601 or DB 605 engine-powered aircraft installation. When combined with the central space-frame mount designed especially for the "power system" format, this resulted in a Daimler-Benz "coupled" twin-crankcase "power system" having a trio of engine mount structures within its nacelle accommodation. The starboard DB 601 component engine had to be fitted with a mirror-image version of its mechanically driven centrifugal supercharger, drawing air from the starboard side of the engine. Two of the DB 606s, each of which initially developed 2,600 PS (2,564 hp, 1,912 kW) for take-off and weighing some 1,515 kg (3,340 lb) apiece, were to power the He 177. The DB 606 — and its eventual replacement, the 689:. After several extremely complex arrangements had been considered during initial design, a novel system was adopted. Instead of a wheel leg under each engine nacelle, two-wheel legs were attached to the main spar at each nacelle, the outboard legs retracting upward and outward into shallow wing wells and the inboard legs swinging upward and inward into similar wells in the wing roots, with all units enclosed by flush fitting wheel and strut doors, which almost met under each engine nacelle when fully extended. During the retraction cycle, the forward-oriented lever-action lower gear strut sections (onto which the wheels were mounted on their axles), pivoted backwards to a 90° angle from 120° when fully extended. This was in order to position the wheels to fit into the wheel wells during the sideways folding action. A conventional rearwards-retracting single-leg twin wheel arrangement for each main gear, a design heavily influenced by the He 219's similar main gear components, was used on the two prototypes built (one during the war, one post-war) of the 778:
main production type DB 606 A/B engines instead of the pre-production units, which offered a slight increase in take-off power by 100 PS to 2700 PS (2,663 hp, 1,986 kW). The He 177 V7 featured a revised nose section which, while generally following the contours of the nose sections employed by the previous prototypes, was considerably reinforced and embodied fewer glazed panels. In September 1941, the He 177 V8, the last of the prototypes which had a different, "bullet-like" cockpit shaping and construction from the production He 177A series aircraft, was made available for engine tests. However, owing to the urgency of other development work it was returned to Heinkel after only 40 days, and it was not possible to resume engine tests in the air until February 1942. The He 177 V1 to V8 and the A-0 pre-production models are notable for having a broad-bladed set of four-bladed propellers, with blade shapes and profiles similar to those used on the Junkers Ju 88. These were not used on the production He 177A series aircraft.
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target in a shallow dive, both engines throttled back, the pilot putting his aircraft into a gliding descent to take it across the bomb release-point at about 4,500 m (14,760 ft). After releasing the bombs the pilot re-opened the throttles, but continued the descent at approximately 200 m (656 ft) per minute. The bombers typically re-entered German airspace at an altitude of 750 m (2,460 ft), and headed back to base. By such means, the He 177s were able to keep up speeds of about 600 to 700 km/h (370 to 430 mph) during their withdrawal phase. The higher speed and constant change of altitude made interceptions difficult, increasing the survivability of the aircraft, but decreased bombing accuracy and concentration. With an average loss rate of 60% for bomber aircraft types used in Operation Steinbock, the He 177's loss rate below 10% made it the most survivable bomber in the campaign.
1065:, reducing its lubricating qualities. Insufficient lubrication caused disintegration of the connecting rod bearings, which sometimes resulted in conrods bursting through either one of the component engine crankcases and puncturing oil tanks. The oil would then spill on to the often-overheated central exhaust pipe collector. The tightly packed nature of the "power system" engine installations on the He 177A, with the extreme rearwards location of the component engines in their nacelles, also led to poor maintenance access as well as very poor ventilation. As a result of these factors, in addition to a lack of routine maintenance in the field, the DB 606 powerplants frequently caught fire in flight. The mechanical coupling of two engines proved to be difficult to perfect and led to numerous engine complications with the service test He 177A-0 and initial production A-1 models. 673: 451: 537: 1583: 782: 725:
severe control flutter and broke up in the air. Following this incident, the tail surfaces of the V3, V4, and V5 prototypes were modified in a similar fashion to those of the He 177 V1. The He 177 V3 was allocated the task of power plant development. The V1 through V3 prototype airframes were all equipped with two counterclockwise rotating DB 606 A powerplants, while the V4 prototype, and all later aircraft throughout the production run of the A-series, used a DB 606 A or DB 610 A engine on the starboard wing, and one clockwise rotating B-version of the same powerplant on the port wing, so that the propellers rotated "away" from each other at the tops of the propeller arcs. The He 177 V4 was retained at Heinkel's test field at
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serial 355 001), without the chin turret. It was never fitted on any of the He 177B prototypes, which all used the standard "Cabin 3" He 177A's well-framed nose. No photographs of this new nose design are known to have survived the war and only drawings of it exist in modern archives, with the V15 airframe itself wrecked in a crash on 24 June 1944. The remaining defensive armament for the B-series design generally remained similar to the He 177A, particularly the twin dorsal gun turrets for the He 177B-5, with the aft manned dorsal turret being deleted on the planned He 177B-7 (as on the He 177A-7) to reduce weight, and a fully powered, manned
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several improvements, including the relocation of the engine oil tank, a changed oil flow pipe, an improved oil cooler, the lengthening of the engine mountings by 20 cm (8 in), the complete redesign of the exhaust system, which also facilitated the installation of exhaust flame dampers for night missions, and the setting of a power limitation on the engines which resulted in greater reliability. These major and minor modifications, supposedly numbering 56, were successful in eliminating engine fires, but other minor problems remained, involving the transfer
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position, with the best possible view and with less risk of being blinded by the flash from his own guns. Although work on remotely controlled aircraft defensive systems had reached a relatively advanced stage in Germany in the late 1930s, progress in this field within Germany's aviation and armaments systems engineers and manufacturers was to prove insufficient to keep pace with the He 177. As a result, the He 177 had to be modified to accommodate larger and heavier manned positions, such as the manned rear dorsal turret usually fitted to almost all examples of the
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stabilizers' tips, directly inline with the inner engine nacelles, to simulate "engine-out" conditions. Each of the pivoted "drag rudders" were to have their area divided equally above and below the plane of the stabilizer. Because flight testing had revealed that the single-tailed V101 exhibited an increasingly serious stability problem with higher airspeeds, the subsequent prototype, the V102, was both the first He 177B example to fly, on 20 December 1943, with the quartet of DB 603 engines, in combination with a brand-new
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immense Heinkel bomber as if it were made of glass. The stalling characteristics with flaps and undercarriage lowered, the aircraft buffeted violently at 140 km/h (87 mph) before the nose dropped at 135 km/h (84 mph). The buffet experienced was so violent that I had some concerns over structural damage. Somehow the He 177 always conveyed an impression of fragility despite its size." He added that it was "one of the very few German aircraft of the period that I tested that I did not enjoy flying".
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running it in pipes along the outer skin of the fuselage and wings. Before the design of the He 177 was finalized, it was clear that such a system would be incapable of dealing with the vast amount of heat generated by each of the twinned DB 601-based powerplants, forcing the abandonment of the idea of using evaporative cooling systems, in favour of conventional annular radiators fitted directly behind each propeller. These resembled, but were larger in capacity, than those fitted to the
1563:(Göring's top aviation technology expert), each had a chance to fly the now four-engined V102 prototype after the B-series set of wings had been fitted. Knemeyer stated that he could not believe a four-engined heavy bomber could possess the "excellent handling qualities" that the V102 displayed. The only verifiable wartime photograph of any of these He 177B prototypes in an intact condition is one of the V101, parked outdoors on a foggy German airfield, most likely the 1724:, one suffered a burst tyre, and eight returned with overheating or burning engines. Of the four that reached London, one was lost to night fighters. These aircraft were brand new, delivered a week before the operation and not fully flown in, because the air unit had moved to a new airfield the day before and lacked sufficient maintenance personnel and material. Constant attacks against Luftwaffe long-range combat units in France made continuous operations difficult. 664:'s rescinding of the dive-attack requirement on 15 September 1942, the barred-gate type dive brakes on the wing's lower surfaces, placed just forward of each of the outboard ends of the Fowler flap panels, were omitted from all He 177A built after the initial A-0 pre-production batch. A photo of one of the 12 "destroyer" He 177A-1/U2, heavy-cannon-armed test airframes, showed the retracted dive brake panel still fitted on the undersurface of the outer starboard wing. 1350: 376: 347: 1052:
in the bottom of the engine cowling to catch fire. When the pilot throttled back there was a tendency for the mechanical fuel injection pump on each component DB 601 engine to "lag" in its response, delivering more fuel than was required by the engine. In addition, the fuel injection pump connections often leaked. To reduce the aircraft's weight, no firewall had been provided, and the aft end of each DB 606 was fitted so close to the main
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cumbersome four-strut main landing gear of the A-series was retained for the B-series prototypes, even though the height, meant to allow clearance for the A-series' pair of large four-blade propellers, was not changed – the outer edge of the DB 603's inner engine nacelle/wing surface juncture was located right at the "centreline" of each of the twin pairs of A-series main gear strut locations, on all four of the B-series prototypes.
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full tonne, making the BL 131V concept unacceptable, and prompting the idea of using a chin-turret mount version of the FDL 151Z twin-cannon remote turret instead for the B-series, four-DB 603 engined He 177Bs, close to what had been pioneered with the GI+BP airframe early in 1943. Even with its unsuitability for the He 177A, the BL 131V quadmount nose turret was prototyped for armament tests at the
2524: 567:"The examination has shown that the strength of the He 177's wings is one-third below that estimated by Heinkel. The reason for this is the uneven rigidity of the individual members with consequent deformation under load. This condition was not recognized by Heinkel at the proper time, the failure tests having been undertaken too late in view of the size of the structure." 1807: 836:), the only major subcontractor for the He 177A's airframes. Often, the two lower rows of the "fishbowls" windows in the nose glazing were made opaque, with the exception of the bombardier's protruding bombsight window offset to starboard in the lower nose glazing, either by painting them over or replacing them with metal panels that performed the same function. 309:(RLM/German Aviation Ministry) finally released a new specification for what they called Bomber A on 3 June 1936. This called for a significantly more advanced design with higher speeds, longer range and larger payloads. This was also the same day that Wever was killed in an air crash, and the design lost its only politically powerful champion. 644:(OKL/Luftwaffe High Command) stipulated that the new design should possess sufficient structural strength to enable it to undertake medium-degree diving attacks. While viewing the aircraft at the Heinkel plant that day, Udet mentioned the new requirement to Heinkel. Heinkel replied that the aircraft would never be capable of it. 559:. Each aileron comprised upper and lower portions, the latter arranged to slide rearwards with flap extension, while the upper part retained its function of providing lateral control for take-off and landing. The original wing design did not fully take into account the stresses resulting from the operation of the Fowler flaps. A 1099:; "commander of test facilities") about the He 177A's powerplant troubles, particularly containing remarks about the problems caused by the compromised design of the DB 606 powerplants' accommodation in the He 177A's engine nacelles, and resultant poor maintenance access. On August 13, Göring responded: 2224:
HL 131V hydraulic-drive, quadruple-MG 131 armed "quadmount" tail turret. Similar bombload and range to He 177A-6/R1. Only one test airframe converted from an He 177A-3 to test the new cockpit/nose, as the He 177 V15, of which no photos are known to survive, and which itself was wrecked in a mishap in
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Replacement of the forward and central bomb bays with full-fuselage-depth fuel tanks (as on the A-5/R6 modification) and the addition of external bomb rack under the new fuel tank bays, capable of carrying a single 2,500 kg (5,511 lb) bomb or Fritz X/Hs 293 in addition to the rear bomb-bay payload of
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at Stalingrad, where they were found to be unsuited for the transport role, carrying little more cargo than the smaller and more reliable Heinkel He 111, and proving useless for the evacuation of wounded. As a result, the He 177s reverted to bombing and flak-suppression missions near Stalingrad. Only
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Beset by technical difficulties in development, the He 177 had a troubled history in service. Unduly demanding design requirements of long-range, high speed, heavy bomb load, and the formerly required dive bombing capability compounded the problems. Although the He 177 entered service in 1942, it was
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production facility. An additional prototype, the V104, whose purpose was to be the "finalized" pre-production prototype for the He 177B-5, and also meant to be a twin-tailed prototype like the earlier V102, was being completed thereby order from the RLM, converted from an early production He 177A-5.
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would. Two sets of four almost square windows, themselves arranged in a square of four windows each on each side of the upper cockpit, just behind the "fishbowl's" rear edge, provided sideways vision from the cockpit for the pilot and crew. Photographic evidence shows these side windows were produced
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Photographs of the first eight prototypes show a largely circular fuselage cross-section, especially forward of the wing root, with the A-0 series possessing flatter sides, dorsal and ventral surfaces of the main A-series production aircraft. The choice of what was called the "Cabin 3" cockpit design
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Following Francke's initial flight, the He 177 V1 received several modifications suggested by the initial trials, including a 20% increase in the tail surface area. These changes were not applied to the He 177 V2 when another test pilot undertook the first diving trials, during which the V2 developed
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Tests on the 40th production A-1 aircraft in September 1942, revealed serious outer wing panel component damage after only some 20 flights, due to the aerodynamic stress from diving attack exercises. Costly and extensive strengthening was needed to solve the problem, which significantly increased the
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The specification required the plane to carry a bomb-load of at least 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) over a range of 5,000 km (3,100 mi), with a maximum speed of not less than 500 km/h (311 mph) at altitude. In addition to outperforming, by a considerable margin, any bomber then in
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in late December 1942. Ernst Udet was also critical before the war of the coupled DB 606 powerplant choice for the He 177, with Göring voicing his own frustrations with the seemingly interminable engine problems delaying the introduction of the He 177A into service. Göring was reported as stating in
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s airframe. The first concerns over the coupled-engine vs. four separate engine issue for the He 177 emerged in mid-November 1938, as Ernst Heinkel had requested that two of the under-construction airframes for the eight He 177 prototypes to be fitted out with four individual engines in place of the
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undernose gondola. However, engineering studies of the quadmount chin turret project revealed that its fitment, proposed for a number of the later He 177A variants and the He 177 V104 prototype airframe, would lower airspeed by about 30 km/h (19 mph) and reduce the deployable bombload by a
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division of Rheinmetall-Borsig (the manufacturer of the guns themselves) and was a design with promise, using hydraulic drive to both elevate the turret's side-mount gunmount elevation units through a +/- 60Âș vertical arc either side of level, with a capability for horizontal traverse (of the entire
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The tendency of the twin-crankcase, 1.5 metric tons (1.7 short tons)-apiece DB 606 "power system" engines to catch fire became increasingly serious as the test programme progressed, and many of the He 177A-0 series of pre-production prototypes were destroyed in accidents or engine related incidents.
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The He 177 V5 incorporated a number of changes which were principally concerned with defensive armament installations. Early in 1941, during a simulated low-level attack, both DB 606 engines burst into flames, and the V5 hit the ground and exploded. The He 177 V6 was the first aircraft equipped with
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On 9 November 1939, the first prototype, the He 177 V1, was flown for the first time with Dipl. Ing. Leutnant Carl Francke, then chief of the Rechlin central flight test center, at the controls. The flight terminated abruptly after only 12 minutes due to overheating engines. Francke was pleased with
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In spite of Heinkel's concerns, the design was modified for glide bombing, which required it to be strengthened to allow it to safely pull out of dives. Then the requirement was again modified, this time calling for a maximum dive angle of 60°, which necessitated further structural strengthening and
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A compact tail gun position was fitted for rearward defense, armed with one MG 131 machine gun but its streamlined glazing meant that the gunner lay prone, severely restricting his comfort on long missions. A revised tail gun position with a bulged upper glazing was fitted to the He 177A-3 and later
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As the war progressed, He 177 operations became increasingly ineffective. Fuel and personnel shortages presented difficulties, and He 177s were sitting on airfields all over Europe awaiting new engines or engine-related modifications. Of the 14 He 177A-3s (the primary subtype in use) that were sent
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axes, resulting in extremely poor bombing accuracy when using the Lotfe 7 bombsight. The main reason for this was the drifting motion of the aircraft in flight due to its relatively short, round fuselage. Shortly after these tests, the third production A-1 example (factory serial number 15153, with
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daylight bombers over Germany. The bomb bays and fuselage-housed auxiliary fuel tanks were removed on these aircraft in order to provide space for the spin-stabilized 21 cm (8ÂŒ in) rockets and their launch tubes. The tubes were inclined to fire upward at an angle of 60° to the horizontal,
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being placed behind the wing's leading edge — that there was insufficient space for the fuel/oil fluid lines and electrical harnesses. The engines' exterior surfaces within the cowlings were frequently saturated with fuel and oil from leaking connections. At high altitude the oil tended to foam due
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engine nacelles. One was the common "central" exhaust manifold, serving a total of 12 cylinders, on the two inner cylinder banks of the twinned DB 601 component engines making up a DB 606. This central exhaust system routinely became excessively hot, causing the usual accumulation of oil and grease
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almost all German bomber aircraft had in World War II, and indeed had on all eight of the prototypes with the earlier "bullet" nose design. The forward glazing of the He 177A's "stepless" cockpit had each set of its characteristic framing members, of four supporting frame members per set running in
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Eight prototypes were completed, followed by 35 pre-production He 177A-0s (built by Arado and Heinkel) and 130 Arado-built He 177A-1s. The early aircraft in this batch were used for further trials, and after a brief and unhappy operational debut the remainder were withdrawn from service. From late
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plant's airfield at Schwechat near Vienna, and the V102 also at Schwechat as late as February 1945. It had sustained damage from a bad landing in April 1944 while evading one of the initial USAAF 15th Air Force raids on the area, which had kept it from being flown north to the Luftwaffe's Rechlin
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of NN + QQ), the V102 being converted from the eighth He 177A-0 production prototype aircraft (which required the He 177A-3 specification aft fuselage lengthening), and the V103 being converted from an existing, early production He 177A-5 airframe, with all three airframes initially retaining the
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Due to the continuing problems with the DB 606's configuration and engine accommodation design, much development work was done in order to rectify engine complications. This included a complete redesign of the original He 177, primarily through newer wing designs and layouts to improve the engine
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cannon fitment) and to port of the target, maintaining a difference of altitude of 2,000 m (6,560 ft) beneath the targets at the time of the attack. A few trial daylight operations were flown but no contact was made with Allied bomber formations, and as the escort fighters were becoming
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Starting with the He 177A-3/R2, the engines and nacelles were redesigned to eliminate the tendency for engine fires. The new "power system" was the Daimler-Benz DB 610, which consisted of two Daimler-Benz DB 605s coupled into a single unit like the DB 606. With the introduction of the DB 610 came
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entry version of the proposed He 277 by February 1943, which was also depicted with single main gear struts with twin wheels. For the He 177A's own landing gear maintenance needs, some two hours were required just to change a main gear tire, using special Heinkel-designed 12 metric tons (13 short
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While Steinbock was unsuccessful, the He 177 did achieve some successes. During Steinbock crews typically carried two 1,800 kg (3,970 lb) and two 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bombs. Climbing to 7,000 m (22,965 ft) while still over German territory, the He 177s approached the
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code of NE+OD, does not match any item of the surviving documentation for the four known 177B-series prototypes ordered, built or flown before the end of the war, and possessing one of the upgraded, upright-seating A-5 subtype's tail gunner's emplacements, as well as the usual twin dorsal turret
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Nearly four years after Heinkel had unsuccessfully requested that the V3 & V4 be built with four individual powerplants, the RLM's requirement that the He 177 perform diving attacks was finally rescinded by Göring himself in September 1942, and with that, Heinkel's design work on the A-8 and
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light and I was all too aware of the intelligence reports of He 177s breaking up in the air so I decided to treat this control very gently...The aircraft had an automatic pull-out device and an acceleration warning apparatus fitted, but it really was nailbiting to have to treat a giant like this
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high-speed fighter prototypes. The coolant water is pressurized, raising its boiling point, in this case to about 110 Â°C (230 Â°F). As the superheated water leaves the engine it enters an expansion area where the pressure drops and the water flashes to steam. The steam is then cooled by
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High-altitude bomber with an extended wing spanning 36 m (118 ft 1⅓ in) and powered solely with DB 610 A/B engines instead of the intended 3,800 PS (3,748 hp, 2,795 kW) DB 613 "power systems", which never emerged from testing and used pairs of twinned DB 603 engines for each "power system". Six
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flew in three large attack wedges of about thirty aircraft, each loaded with four 250 kg (551 lb) or two 500 kg (1,102 lb) bombs. During this action, carried out in daylight at altitudes in excess of 6,000 m (19,690 ft), losses were relatively light. The Soviet Air
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B turbojet-powered reconnaissance-bomber, and was not able to handle the anticipated demand from Heinkel to produce the B-5 by October 1944. Arado would not have been able to start the He 177 B-5's production for another month (November 1944) due to its own focus on the Ar 234 B. The last known
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for forward ventral defense, mounting either a pair of 13mm MG 131 machine guns or 20mm MG 151 cannon and closely modeled on the A-series 177's existing FDL 131Z forward dorsal turret, but the new nose design was only tested on the He 177 V15 production prototype (converted from an A-3, factory
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drawing for the V101 airframe — bearing the "B-5" subtype designation within the drawing's title block — showed that it was intended to be uniquely fitted with a small-area matching vertical pair of so-called pivoting "drag rudders" mounted, one per side, a short distance in from the horizontal
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HL 131V "quadmount" manned tail turret, fitted with a quartet of 13mm MG 131 machine guns, was tried in the late spring and summer of 1943 on a trio of A-3 examples set aside as the V32 through V34 prototypes, but that innovation never made it to production status, never existing as more than a
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Problems arising from the latest requirement were never satisfactorily solved, due to the constant increases in loaded weight. Despite strengthened airframes, it was possible to overstress the airframe during dive-bombing. Although the German bomb-sights of the 1930s were inadequate, the later
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configuration, fitted to it during the early autumn of 1943. When the V102 was tested later that autumn while still flying with its A-series wing and powerplants before its own pair of B-series "four-engine" wing units were ready, the new twin vertical tails gave the V102 significantly better
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program, leaving one manned emplacement in the tail. Compared with the manned position, a remotely controlled, turreted defensive armament emplacement system traded technical complexity for reduction of size, weight and drag; it had the advantage that the gunner could be placed in a protected
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Equipped with a redesigned fuselage nose of improved aerodynamic form, abandoning the earlier "Cabin 3" cockpit, with the new nose being generally the same as intended for He 177A-7 and all He 177B development versions. Retained the FDL 131 remotely controlled forward dorsal turret, a single
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undernose gondola. The type of guns fitted was not recorded, but the date on which GI+BP was written off following a mishap in May 1943 would place the fitting of its experimental "chin turret" simultaneously with the lead-up to the May 1943 service introduction of the "gunship" USAAF Flying
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as early as 1929. This sort of system was pioneered on the eight examples built of the Heinkel He 119 high-speed reconnaissance aircraft prototype series, already flying with the twin-crankcase DB 606 "power system" engine with success from the beginning, and was also intended for use on the
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would have been standardized on the production B-series aircraft, but never went beyond the mockup and working prototype stage, with a trio of the prototype tail turret units documented as being fitted to the He 177 V32 through V34 A-series DB 610-powered prototype airframes for trials. The
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In the case of an aircraft attacking a larger target like a factory, the high-angle attacks of the Stuka would not be needed, but a shallower angle, sometimes known as "glide bombing" would be enough. Glide bombing would increase the accuracy to the point that a single aircraft would have a
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on a heavy bomber offered many advantages, such as a substantial reduction in drag, reduction of dive instability and a marked improvement in maneuverability. The eight initial V-series prototypes, and the larger number of A-0 pre-production models of the He 177, displayed an airspeed and
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design sufficient to handle the 32 metric tons (35 short tons) loaded weight, was difficult to achieve. The engine nacelles and wings had little room for the main undercarriage members, which needed to be longer than usual, for ground clearance for the large diameter four-blade
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The He 177 required at least a pair of 2,000 PS (1,973 hp, 1,471 kW) engines to meet performance requirements. No engine in the German aviation power-plant industry at that time developed such power. A four-engine version would have been possible with engines like the
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at the front end as added forward defense and a flexibly mounted MG 81 machine gun in the rear, for the initial He 177A-1. An MG 151 cannon replaced the forward MG FF cannon in later production models, with an MG 131 usually replacing the MG 81, for rearwards ventral defense.
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In addition to carrying a variety of bombs, torpedoes, and guided weapons, the He 177 was tested with a number of unorthodox offensive armaments. The first of the experimental weapons fitments known to have been tested was the 12 examples of the He 177A-1/U2
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eagerly approved the creation of three He 177B prototypes, designated He 177 V101 to V103. He stated on 10 August: "The He 177A-4 and A-5 will be produced as before. The He 177B-5 will be tackled with vigor. It will be built in series as soon as possible."
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in-flight handling compared to the original 177A-style empennage of the V101, except during the landing approach when the Fowler flaps were extended during its own initial flights with the twin tails in November 1943. On 24 February 1944, as the USAAF's
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Petersen on the 13th of the month: "I had told Udet from the start that I wanted this beast with four engines. This crate must have had four engines at some time! Nobody had told me anything about this hocus-pocus with welded-together engines!"
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Meant to be a "32 metric-ton" loaded-weight long-range bomber, as a planned improvement over the A-5 version, the A-6 dispensed with the rear manned dorsal turret, and retained the A-5/R2's single MG 151 flexible cannon at the front of the
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A 3-view of the short-fuselage A-1, which was upgraded with a 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) addition to its rear fuselage just aft of the wing root to become the A-3 - note dive brakes outboard of the nacelles, omitted for the A-3
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Anti-bomber variant based on the He 177 A-5, armed with up to 33 spin-stabilized 21 cm (8Πin) calibre rockets obliquely mounted in fuselage, replacing bomb bays and auxiliary fuel tanks, and most likely based on components of the
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coupled-engine arrangements, eventually specifying that the V3 and V4 airframes get four individual Junkers Jumo 211 engines in an in-plant corporate meeting on 17 November – exactly the same type and number of engines used on the
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Integrated into its "Cabin-3" cockpit design, a 7.92 mm MG 81 was placed in a flexible mount to defend against frontal attacks; the two lower rows of nose glazing panels are painted over to protect the crew from searchlight
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Developed as the direct, "separate four-engined" development of the "coupled engine" powered He 177A-series, four prototypes ordered (He 177 V101 to V104) with three built and flown under DB 603 power. Originally postulated in
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and slightly to starboard. The tubes could be fired individually, simultaneously, or in two salvoes of 15 and 18. Tests with fixed balloon targets showed the potential of this system, and limited operational trials against US
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ventral gondola, an MG 131 in the rear end of the ventral gondola, a pair of MG 131 in an FDL 131Z remotely controlled forward dorsal turret, a single MG 131 in a manned aft dorsal turret, and a single tail-mounted MG 151
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Proposed four-engined He 177 design, similar to the He 177A-8, but based instead on the He 177A-7 definitive production fuselage, with manned rear dorsal gun turret omitted, and re-designated as the "He 177B-7" in August
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The first flights of the He 177B prototypes, starting with the He 177 V102 on 20 December 1943, occurred between late December 1943 and early January 1944 in the vicinity of the Vienna-Schwechat airfield, at the firm's
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or in a few instances, a semi-experimental twin MG 131Z mount, with the twinned 13 mm calibre guns mounted one above the other, at the rear of the standard bulged upper glazing emplacement. Usually, a 7.92 mm
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1942 they were replaced by He 177A-3s. Starting in August 1943, all He 177's delivered had an extended rear fuselage - by 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) - to both instill greater stability for bombing accuracy (see
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In contrast to its heavy payload and very wide, 30 metres (98 ft) planform, the specifications called for the design to have only two very powerful engines. To deliver the power required, the He 177 needed
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ventral gondola (beyond the hemispherical "fishbowl" nose glazing), and intended for ground attack, train busting, and possibly long-range anti-ship raids. These aircraft were also intended to be used against
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aircraft's weight. Starting with the later versions of the He 177A-3, the Fowler flaps along the outboard wing sections were no longer fitted and a strengthened wing design was introduced on the He 177A-5.
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ASV maritime patrol radar with flexible MG 131Z nose gun installation, speculated to have been intended for the installation of an enlarged bomb bay for test purposes, said to be intended for use in the
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on the He 177A led to considerable problems, the most common being in-flight engine fires and engine overheating. There were several reasons for the flammability of the DB 606 engine as installed in the
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Main production series, 826 built. Standardized on the A-3's longer rear fuselage, strengthened wing, shortened undercarriage oleo legs, ETC 2000/XII wing racks and an increase in maximum external load.
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Portside view of a DB 605 engine in a Bf 109G's nose - the visible engine mount forging was similar to what each side of the DB 606/610 used, along with the "power system's" special centreline mounting
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An He 177 undergoing engine maintenance or overhaul - note the second cylinder's exposed exhaust stub being even with the leading edge, an indication of the rearwards location of the "power systems".
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personnel and establishments, were responsible for backing the substantial numbers of upgrades to the He 177A from the time of the cancellation of its dive-bombing requirement in September 1942.
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the general handling and landing characteristics of the prototype but complained of some vibration in the airscrew shafts, the inadequacy of the tail surfaces under certain conditions, and some
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British troop glider in a side view comparison, and was first meant for use on the production A-7 version. It could incorporate a remotely controlled power chin turret at the front of its
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that had already been perfected during the He 219's development — for each of the quartet of DB 603s fitted. This task was accomplished considerably later than British aircraft designer
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1041 included a top speed of 550 km/h (342 mph) at 5,500 m (18,050 ft) and a loaded weight of 27,000 kg (59,500 lb). In order to achieve these estimates,
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Closeup of the He 177A's portside twin-strut main landing gear, also showing details of the "welded-together engines'" tight engine installation from the ventral side of the cowling.
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ventral gondola. DB 610 engines. Larger, upright seating-equipped redesigned tail position, MG 131 replaced by MG 151 cannon in the tail position. First variant to be fitted with
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turret) of some 100Âș to either side, all at a maximum traverse angular speed of 60Âș per second. One development proposed during 1943 was to create a chin turret using the earlier
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Diving on the target greatly increases the accuracy of the drop, allowing pin-point attacks on small targets like bridges and ships. Technical data supported the accuracy of
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A later DB 610 "power system" which equipped the He 177A-5. The DB 606A/B powerplants were similar in configuration, with outermost "pair" of engine mount forgings not shown.
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In common with most piston-engined German bombers, the He 177 was grounded from the summer of 1944 due to the implementation of the Emergency Fighter Program as well as the
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2 × 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bombs and 2 × 1,800 kg (4,000 lb) bombs or 2 × 1,800 kg (4,000 lb) bombs and 2 × 1,700 kg (3,700 lb) bombs
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reasonable chance of hitting a factory, instead of having a fleet of aircraft drop a huge number of bombs in hopes that some would hit the target. Udet and others in the
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4 × 1,400 kg (3,100 lb) bombs or 4 × 1,700 kg (3,700 lb) bombs or 2 × 1,800 kg (4,000 lb) bombs or 2 × 2,500 kg (5,500 lb) bombs
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manned HL 131V quadmount MG 131 machine gun turret for the first time. Not produced, due to building volume of design work on the He 177B-series four-engined aircraft.
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The He 177B was also intended to introduce a slightly enlarged, somewhat more aerodynamic fully glazed nose. It somewhat echoed the lines of the nose glazing from the
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of GI + BN) had its fuselage lengthened by 160 cm (63 in) just aft of the trailing edge of the wing. The modified aircraft, with the longer distance of the "
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technical department's director Ernst Udet and Heinkel had expressed about the RLM's dive-bombing priority for the He 177A, but was turned down for the trial fitment.
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Second production series, 170 built, with a fuselage lengthened by 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in). Sixteenth and subsequent aircraft powered by DB 610 A/B engines.
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style annular radiators for the Heinkel-unitized DB 603s used in the He 219. Remained a paper project only, before re-designation as the "He 177B-5" by August 1943.
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examples, for wing tests, converted from He 177A-5 airframes, but never fitted with the intended He 177B-series advanced cockpit. One converted He 177A-5 example,
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By early August 1942 Göring became angry about the apparent slowness with which the He 177A's powerplant problems were being dealt with. He received a report by
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The mock-up aircraft was completed in November 1937, and on 5 November 1937 it was allocated the official RLM airframe type number "8-177". That same day, the
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and both He 274 airframes completed in France post-war, are known to have been reduced to scrap by the end of the 1950s, so there are no surviving examples.
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hemispherical sighting station dome located a short distance forward of the turret and slightly offset to starboard, just behind the forward cabin area.
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in a flexible mount was positioned in the upper starboard side of the cockpit nose glazing for defense against frontal attacks. The undernose, inverted-
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On 17 November 1938, before the construction of the He 177 V3 and V4 prototype airframes had even been started, Ernst Heinkel had personally asked the
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had good flying characteristics, but had unacceptable engine troubles and problems with its airframe strength. As an emergency measure, aircraft from
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bomber wings were based. A transport and two escort fighters from the RAE flew to the area to leave the Royal Aircraft Establishment Chief Test Pilot
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on 20 September 1939 for the production A-series run, placed a well-framed hemispherical "fishbowl" nose onto the He 177A-0, giving it the generic "
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First eight prototypes of the He 177. V1 through V3 powered by DB 606 A engines. He 177 V4 and subsequent aircraft powered by DB 606 A/B engines.
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production 177A-style single vertical tail surfaces. Although no photographs are known to exist verifying their fitment, the general arrangement
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and created doubts about the effectiveness of level bombing of factories. While Wever had been advocating the Ural Bomber concept, others in the
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infantry barrage rocket system. Five examples delivered in January 1944 for operational trials. Abandoned due to increasing numbers of Allied
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The type matured into a usable design too late in the war to play an important role. It was built and used in some numbers, especially on the
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GĂŒnter's original intention had been to equip the He 177 with three cockpit-controlled remote gun turrets, with two of them to come from the
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A He 177 during refueling and engine-run up 1943. Note the four-bladed propeller. The aircraft is painted in a night camouflage scheme.
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installation design, in conjunction with the A-3 subtype's lengthened rear fuselage, intended to create a four-engined version of the
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The He 177B-5's first-built prototype, the He 177 V101, was converted from a mid-production He 177A-3 airframe (number 535 550, with
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A-10, collectively renamed the He 177B in August 1943, was then able to progress. They were meant to be powered with four individual
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Pre-production series, 35 built. First to use the "Cabin 3" cockpit with "fishbowl" framed glazed nose, as with production A-series.
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gondola, with the long barrel protruding well forward, beyond the glazed "fishbowl" nose. This variant was unofficially dubbed the
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Up to 7,000 kilograms (15,000 lb) of ordnance internally, up to 2,500 kg (5,500 lb) externally on underwing racks.
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First proposed He 177 design to feature four individual engines, using the A-3 or A-5 fuselage with a new wing design, and either
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for a purely strategic bomber. Thus the He 177 was intended originally to be capable of a sustained bombing campaign against
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Note: Official RLM designations had the prefix "8-", but this was usually dropped and replaced with the manufacturer's prefix.
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in Spain tended to support the idea that dive bombing was superior and led some to believe that pinpoint accuracy was possible.
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On the Eastern Front, the most notable action by the He 177 was a mass raid of some 87 aircraft against railway targets in the
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was wrapping up in the southeast of France, the aircraft was captured and flown back to the UK by Falk. Soon afterwards, Capt.
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Experimental defensive weapon fitments were also fitted to a small number of He 177As set aside for such trials, mostly at the
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Force, equipped mainly for low-level interception and ground-attack roles, could do little to hinder the high-flying bombers.
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in FDL 131Z remotely operated forward dorsal turret, and one in rear belly gondola, one in manned HDL 131/1 aft dorsal turret
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First production series, 130 built. Armed with a single MG 81 in the nose, a single MG FF/M cannon in the forward end of the
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during the winter of 1942, Luftwaffe forward maintenance units modified a small number of He 177A-3s, fitting a 50 mm
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ventral gondola, a remote-controlled dorsal turret with a single (later twinned) MG 131, and a single tail mounted MG 131.
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German Combat Planes: A Comprehensive Survey and History of the Development of German Military Aircraft from 1914 to 1945
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Pressurised cockpit study with a projected ceiling of 15,200 m (49,869 ft) and similar reduced armament to the He 177A-2.
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official account of the whereabouts of the two He 177B prototypes that escaped the bombing raids placed the V101 at the
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location fitted with its 12-round magazine, structural problems caused by the 75 mm weapon's recoil meant that the
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On 2 June 1937, Heinkel Flugzeugwerke received instructions to proceed with construction of a full-scale mock-up of its
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48 × 50 kg (110 lb) bombs or 12 × 250 kg (550 lb) bombs or 10 × 500 kg (1,100 lb) bombs
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for potential fitment and use on the He 177B V104 prototype airframe; and had, by mid-July 1944, completed its tests.
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HL 131V tail turret, carrying a quartet of MG 131 machine guns, was intended for installation on the prototypes. The
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fitted across the front ends of the "twinned"-component engines of each "power system" and their shared propeller.
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models, which permitted the gunner to sit upright. The revised design required a reduction of the lower end of the
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Armed with FDL-series remote gun turrets. Abandoned as a result of difficulties with the turrets, only one built.
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began to see the Bomber not as the strategic bomber that Wever argued for, but what was essentially a long-range
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thirteen missions were flown, and seven He 177s were lost to fire without any action attributable to the enemy.
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strategic bombing campaign against Germany continued, particularly against targets in northern France involving
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GI+BP, was fitted with the first-ever example of a remote-controlled twin-gun "chin turret" at the front of its
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The DB 606 engine had first been introduced on the Heinkel He 119 and later used on other aircraft such as the
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By August 1943 much of the detail work for the He 177B series aircraft was well on its way to completion, and
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with slight differences in external appearance between those built by Heinkel (with its primary headquarters,
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reconnaissance aircraft prototypes. They consisted of a pair of DB 601 liquid-cooled 12-cylinder inverted-vee
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Proposed high altitude pressurised version, never built under the designation, and later developed into the
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radio control transmitting system for Fritz X (gravity) and/or Henschel Hs 293 (rocket-boosted) ordnance.
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550 256 captured by American forces, scrapped postwar and believed buried under the grounds of Chicago's
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The second He 177A-0 production prototype (A-02) with broad-bladed propellers, bearing radio code "DL+AQ"
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For aerodynamic cleanliness, GĂŒnter intended to dispense with the usual system of drag-producing engine
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service, the design's speed was intended to allow it to outrun any contemporary fighter, the so-called
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The inaccuracy of horizontal bombing during the Ural bomber program demonstrated weaknesses in German
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system instead. Such surface cooling, in the form of simpler surface radiators, had been used on
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but the four-engine layout would impose higher propeller drag to the detriment of performance in
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quadmount gun elevation assemblies to either side of a new, remote-control traverse core as the
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control gear. Range of 5,800 km (3,604 mi), only six test conversions built, from A-5 versions.
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Replacement of the forward and central bomb-bays with enlarged, full-fuselage-depth fuel tanks.
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airframes, was fully involved at that time with the production of its own, much more advanced
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Ventral gondola's aft end lengthened by 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) to provide room for the FuG 203b
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far from operational. In an assessment of the aircraft on 9 April 1942, the newly activated
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in early July 1944 dealt the final blow to the entire He 177B development program, with the
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488 km/h (303 mph, 263 kn) at 6,000 m (20,000 ft) in level flight
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Flight testing of the He 177 in late summer 1942 revealed deficient stability around the
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Armed with a single MG 81 in the nose, a single MG 151 cannon in the forward end of the
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During development, the anticipated weight of the He 177 increased so much that a main
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the separate windshield for the pilot and co-pilot, that beginning with Heinkel's own
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An He 177 in a shallow dive. The He 177 was meant to have dive-bombing capabilities.
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setups for propulsion. He had already employed these engines on the record-breaking
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6 × 500 kg (1,100 lb) bombs or 6 × 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bombs or
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heavy fighter with a pair of limited-traverse 30 mm MK 101 cannon in enlarged
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The NASM's partly restored He 219A-2 with its unitized DB 603 engines and fuselage.
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German language website for the He 177 A-1's original prone tail gunner's position
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Five He 177A-5s were experimentally equipped in January 1944 with batteries of 33
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ventral gondola for a remotely controlled ventral turret housing a single MG 131.
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missile-control equipment, instead of the usual rear-fuselage mounting location.
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jet fighter being the only new Heinkel aircraft design allowed into production.
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infantry barrage rocket system. The nearly three dozen launch tubes placed in a
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missions, and also likely to have been similarly derived from components of the
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single units already in use with single and twin-engined Luftwaffe fighters for
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surface for clearance. The MG 131 gun would often be replaced with a 20 mm
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Experimental version only, equipped with a sighting station in the rear of the
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complex, setting back plans to produce any series examples of the B-5 version.
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engines on new longer-span wings, with each liquid-cooled DB 603 fitted with a
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change. Most of the short-fuselage A-3s were rebuilt to the longer standard by
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to set aside the V3 and V4 airframes for a trial installation of four separate
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All surviving He 177 A aircraft, including the photographed He 177 B wreck at
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In February 1944, at around the same time as Operation Steinbock, He 177s and
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2 × 500 kg (1,100 lb) bombs internally + 2 × Hs 293 under the wings
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24-cylinder liquid-cooled piston engines, 2,218 kW (2,975 hp) each
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Proposed 1939 variant of He 177 with four separate piston engines; not built.
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Torpedo bomber version abandoned in favor of the He 177A-5, only three built.
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operated at least two He 177 A-3s left behind by the Germans and rebuilt by
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power system that was selected, in conjunction with its relatively cramped
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415 km/h (258 mph, 224 kn) at 6,000 m (20,000 ft)
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code "PM+OD" and early cockpit design used on the first eight prototypes.
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1041 Bomber A. Heinkel Flugzeugwerke's estimated performance figures for
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design competitor by February 1943, itself cancelled in late April 1944.
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He 177s to follow the enemy bomber formations, passing below (as with a
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during the war into production-ready, combat-reliable aviation engines.
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similar to that of four-engined heavy bombers used by the Allies in the
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Bundesarchiv/MilitÀrarchiv Freiburg, Bestand RL 3, Produktionsprogramme
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four 250 kg (551 lb) or two 500 kg (1,102 lb) bombs, if equipped with
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fleet. Later, when assigned to flak-suppression sorties in the area of
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to develop a dedicated long-range bomber for the role of attacking the
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gondola, based on a small number of He 177 As field-equipped with the
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bombing raids on German aircraft production facilities in Vienna, and
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Lt.Col. Siegfried Knemeyer, who flew the He 177 V102 in February 1944.
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in September 1944 was repainted with British markings and given the
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ventral gondola and a manned aft dorsal turret containing an MG 131.
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did not see combat use outside of the original, BK 5 armed handful.
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variant, which was armed with a pair of limited-traverse 30 mm
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Work on the design began in response to a 1936 requirement known as
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Wings on My Sleeve: The World's Greatest Test Pilot tells his story
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Equipped with a supplementary aft firing MG 131 in the rear of the
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and a flight engineer with the commando group. On 10 September, as
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Archived "Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces, July 1944."
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of 2./KG 100, 1944. Note the flaps cover the entire trailing edge.
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test detachment fields. One He 177A-1, s/n 15155 and bearing the
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engines as prototyped (He 177 V101 through -V103 in 1943-44) or
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cannon with a 21-round magazine within the aircraft's undernose
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He 177's FDL 131 remote dorsal turret manual-single gun version
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bomber streams were authorized. The aircraft were operated by
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YouTube German footage of the He 177 taking-off & landing
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2 × 1,800 kg (4,000 lb) bombs and 2 × LMA III mines
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destroyed the airworthy V103 and the incomplete V104 at the
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near Toulouse, where elements of both the He 177A-equipped
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where they functioned as intended, but the extremely tight
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series of engineering department mockups with Heinkel and
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in 1944, one of the late-war heavy bombing efforts by the
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March, Cyril; Lee, Asher; Barraclough, Geoffrey (1987) .
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Powered by two Daimler-Benz DB 606 A/B engines, 15 built.
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area. This concept met significant scepticism within the
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Price, Alfred. "He 177 Greif: The Luftwaffe's Lighter".
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Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 162-163, 165-167 & 226.
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Sole surviving photo of the intact He 177 V101 prototype
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arrangement for the four-BMW 801E radial-engine powered
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1942 British aircraft recognition film on the He 177 A
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late August 1942, following his earlier complaints to
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and bulged upper glazing for upright gunner's seating.
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BL 131V, located at the forward end of the He 177A's
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However, from 23 April, through July 1944, repeated
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
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Allied bombing of German fuel production facilities
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London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co. 3943: 3807: 3451: 3313: 3227: 3215: 3191: 3182: 3089: 2881:- never-completed development, became Heinkel's 1149:in the extreme front of a dramatically enlarged 1017:Note - One A-0, one A-3, and two A-5 rebuilt as 861:Production of the He 177 until 30 November 1944 7563:Assigned, but not used before RLM was dissolved 4316:German language webpage on the He 177 A Cockpit 4235:Heinkel He 177 Greif Heinkel's Strategic Bomber 3071: 717:which accompanied any vigorous movement of the 5200:Reich Air Ministry (RLM) aircraft designations 4110:Hirsch, R.S., Uwe Feist and Heinz J. Nowarra. 3044: 3030: 2331:of KM+TB) – documented use was as testbed for 2233:Wk. Nr. 550 256, He 177A-7 prototype post-war. 1758:area, about 450 km (280 mi) west of 1268:. The intended mode of operation required the 1128:, Petersen's former bomber wing), through the 415: 5184: 4341: 4114:. Fallbrook, CA: Auro Publishers Inc., 1967. 3898: 3118: 2997: 2995: 2962: 2708:6,000 km (3,700 mi, 3,200 nmi) 1747:glide bombs attacked Allied shipping off the 1579:defensive armament of the He 177A-5 subtype. 1344: 3872:Luftwaffe: Secret Bombers of the Third Reich 1500:, but by 1941 it had been redesigned as the 1135: 254:(the "Baby Blitz"), against the UK in 1944. 4099:. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing 1998. 3327: 3325: 1944:Anti-shipping version capable of using the 1586:Closeup of the "fishbowl" nose glazing and 704:tons) capacity main gear jacks and blocks. 338:, employed several revolutionary features. 5191: 5177: 5127:Heinkel Three-seat Reconnaissance Seaplane 5121:Type 2 Single-seat Reconnaissance Seaplane 4348: 4334: 3903:. Shrewsbury: Airlife. pp. 223, 229. 3899:Griehl, Manfred; Dressel, Joachim (1998). 3804:March, Lee, & Barraclough 1987, p. 267 3777:March, Lee, & Barraclough 1987, p. 218 3436:Griehl and Dressel, pp. 42, 168, 170, 171. 3341:Griehl, Manfred; Dressel, Joachim (1998). 3119:Griehl, Manfred; Dressel, Joachim (1998). 3112: 3014:Countdown to D-Day: The German perspective 3011: 2992: 2963:Griehl, Manfred; Dressel, Joachim (1998). 2762:in forward belly gondola, and one in tail. 2290:for the never-produced, paper-only He 277 1616:HL 131V four-gun manned tail turret system 1120:Petersen, as well as a Major Mons (also a 803:each orthogonal direction, running as the 625:became a vocal supporter of this concept. 4205:International Air Power Review, Volume 11 2212:flexible-mount MG 131 in the rear of the 824:plants around Vienna) and those built by 752:The fifth prototype He 177, the V5, with 257: 4180:German Aircraft Of World War 2 in colour 3978: 3976: 3758:www.ww2.dk : The Luftwaffe, 1933-45 3322: 2795:6 × LMA III mines or 4 × LMB III mines 2582: 2551:from 6./KG 40) that had been taken from 2522: 2228: 1805: 1726: 1683: 1581: 1459: 1451: 1419:Further development: the Heinkel He 177B 1348: 1067: 1028: 780: 747: 671: 656:proved to be comparable to the American 596:were growing increasingly interested in 579: 535: 489: 449: 374: 345: 5115:Type 2 Two-seat Reconnaissance Seaplane 4220:German Aircraft of the Second World War 4182:. Poole, Dorsett, UK: Blandford Press. 4060:Heinkel He 177 (Warpaint Series No. 33) 3926:"The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage" 3444: 3442: 2702:135 km/h (84 mph, 73 kn) 1731:A He 177 taking off for a sortie, 1944. 1162:and bomber aircraft operating over the 454:He 177A-5 tail gun position, with 20mm 14: 7587: 4177: 4151:. London, UK: Chancellor Press, 2004. 3170:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 159, 195. 2986: 2675:4-bladed VDM constant-speed propellers 2562:. Used purely for evaluation purposes. 1679: 1277:ever more numerous - in the manner of 1024: 820:plant near Rostock, and the satellite 548:The He 177 had Fowler-type extensible 7605:World War II heavy bombers of Germany 5172: 4329: 4311:YouTube German newsreel of the He 177 4095:Griehl, Manfred and Joachim Dressel. 3973: 3917: 3861:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 160–161. 3742:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 170–172. 3733:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 169–170. 3564:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 166–167. 3391:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 42, 226. 3382:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 42, 232. 3364:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 106–111. 2726:310 kg/m (63 lb/sq ft) 2566: 1708:50 were used to supply the encircled 1488:had done in similarly converting the 445: 410:considerable challenges in developing 7620:Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft 4355: 4296:He 177 A-3 defensive armament manual 4112:Heinkel 177 "Greif" (Aero Series 13) 3923: 3877: 3751: 3439: 3247:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 46, 54. 2940:List of military aircraft of Germany 2751:** One 7.92 mm (0.312 in) 2620:31.44 m (103 ft 2 in) 2302:Initial project designation for the 1492:. The Manchester, like the A-series 1166:, which were posing a danger to the 693:in France. Drawings were made for a 563:report dated 9 October 1942 stated: 176:during the war. The He 177 had 3301:Bundesarchiv/MilitĂ€rarchiv Freiburg 3068:Griehl and Dressel 1998, pp. 92–94. 2798:2 × LT 50 torpedoes under the wings 2626:6.67 m (21 ft 11 in) 2614:22.00 m (72 ft 2 in) 1762:on 19 July 1944. The participating 1285:- the entire scheme was abandoned. 430:British high-speed racing seaplanes 368:maneuverability comparable to many 24: 4166:. London, UK: Bounty Books, 2004. 4084:. Erlangen, Germany: AirDOC 2008. 3707: 2819:or Hs 293 or Hs 294 under fuselage 2632:100 m (1,100 sq ft) 1550:. Erhard Milch, and fellow guests 847:Airworthiness and handling section 386:Daimler-Benz DB 606 "power system" 25: 7636: 4257: 2735:5.25 kg/hp (11.6 lb/hp) 1884:lower nose mount, 12 conversions. 1590:undernose gondola of an A-series 1548:Wiener Neustadt military airfield 1220:tubes, physically similar to the 4128:The Observer's Book Of Airplanes 4069:. New York: Exeter Books, 1990. 3849:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 102. 3629:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 226. 3587:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 165. 3555:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 163. 3510:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 162. 3448:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 170. 3373:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 106. 3179:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 218. 3143:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 109. 2935:List of aircraft of World War II 2508: 2475: 2368: 1990:version armed with a 75 mm 1386:would capture at an airfield in 667: 40: 4248:Wagner, Ray and Heinz Nowarra. 4237:. London, UK: Ian Allan, 2008. 4017:. London: Phoenix Press, 2007. 4006: 3949:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 72. 3864: 3813:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 87. 3798: 3786:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p.129. 3771: 3745: 3701: 3679: 3657: 3632: 3605: 3590: 3567: 3558: 3534: 3513: 3487: 3469: 3457:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 46. 3430: 3394: 3385: 3376: 3355:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 54. 3349: 3334: 3319:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 94. 3310:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 52. 3304: 3295: 3286: 3277: 3268: 3259: 3250: 3233:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 16. 3224:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 14. 3200: 3197:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 22. 3188:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 17. 3146: 3137: 3100:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 53. 3077:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 33. 2659:15,200 kg (33,500 lb) 2653:32,000 kg (70,548 lb) 2647:16,800 kg (37,038 lb) 1197:-based, autoloading 75 mm 1097:Kommandeur der Erprobungstellen 575: 424:and planned on using a surface 4198:Aircraft in Profile, Volume 11 4107:. (Main reference for article) 3676:. Retrieved: 8 September 2012. 3494:Heinkel He 177, He 177 B-Reihe 3059:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 9. 3041:Griehl and Dressel 1998, p. 8. 3004: 2971: 2956: 2720:3.2 m/s (630 ft/min) 2579:Specifications (He 177 A-5/R2) 1289:Defensive ordnance experiments 1078:, the head of the Luftwaffe's 27:German heavy bomber during WW2 13: 1: 7566:Assigned to captured aircraft 4321:He 177 educational image book 3698:. Retrieved: 2 December 2012. 2950: 2887:design entry by February 1943 2765:Two 13 mm (0.5 in) 2758:One 20 mm (0.8 in) 2714:8,000 m (26,000 ft) 2264:engines (proposal only) with 1378:In early September 1944, the 1244:defensive formations used by 839: 707: 268:had long been an advocate of 7615:Aircraft first flown in 1939 7595:1940s German bomber aircraft 7572:Propaganda/cover designation 5109:Aichi Type H Carrier Fighter 4252:. New York: Doubleday, 1971. 4222:. London, UK: Putnam, 1972. 4067:Warplanes of the Third Reich 4000:Green, William 1990, p. 342. 3795:Green, William 1990, p. 346. 3109:Green, William 1990, p. 228. 2537:Royal Aircraft Establishment 2361: 2248:O'Hare International Airport 2058:guided bombs, equipped with 1482:unitized engine installation 1380:Royal Aircraft Establishment 992:December 1943 – August 1944 935:January 1942 – January 1943 7: 3988:. Retrieved: 19 April 2012. 3889:, 10 May 1945, pp. 498–500. 3274:Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke 2903:Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress 2850: 2641:He 1.5 36.8 17.3-0.715-36.6 2454:FlugzeugfĂŒhrerschule (B) 31 2447:FlugzeugfĂŒhrerschule (B) 16 2440:FlugzeugfĂŒhrerschule (B) 15 1994:BK 7,5 cannon based on the 1777: 1216:21 cm (8ÂŒ in) calibre 1082:network of test facilities. 940:He 177A-3 (short fuselage) 832:plant, with Arado based in 687:counter-rotating propellers 416:Surface evaporation cooling 365:counter-rotating propellers 10: 7641: 4269:He 177 A-1 bombload manual 4264:He 177 A-0 bombload manual 4218:Smith, J.R. and E.L. Kay. 4097:Heinkel He 177 - 277 - 274 3602:. Retrieved: 16 June 2013. 3121:Heinkel He 177 – 277 – 274 3012:Margaritis, Peter (2019). 2815:under wings + 1 × FX 1400 1932:(cable cutting equipment). 1662:test facility for safety. 1345:Airworthiness and handling 1339:Erprobungsstelle Tarnewitz 959:He 177A-3 (long fuselage) 954:November 1942 – July 1943 648:a big increase in weight. 642:Oberkommando der Luftwaffe 483:'s leading-edge, with its 477:Fernbedienbare Drehlafette 471:, armed with a 13 mm 396:mounted side by side in a 341: 306:Reichsluftfahrtministerium 178:a payload/range capability 7553: 7323:Post-349 (non-sequential) 7322: 7043: 6460: 5846: 5211: 5089: 4958: 4692: 4473: 4373: 4364: 4291:Description of He 177 A-3 4126:Lawrence, Joseph (1945). 3822:Smith, J.R. 2008, p. 144. 3283:Heinkel Werke Oranienburg 3256:Munson 1983, pp. 292–293. 3212:Retrieved: 22 April 2012. 3210:lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de. 2553:Toulouse-Blagnac airfield 1998:installed in the ventral 1667:Emergency Fighter Program 1201:BK 7,5 autocannon in the 1136:Experimental weapon loads 617:. The experience of the 131: 123: 115: 107: 102: 94: 84: 67: 56: 51: 39: 34: 4178:Munson, Kenneth (1978). 4045:Aircraft of World War II 3986:lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de 3970:Smith, J.R 2008, p. 114. 3958:Smith, J.R 2008, p. 182. 3840:Smith, J.R 2008, p. 181. 3617:ww2bombers.e-monsite.com 2527:He 177 A-5 with British 1640:factory airfield of the 973:August 1943 – June 1944 729:-Schmarl (then known as 199:manufacturing capacity, 3930:m-selig.ae.illinois.edu 3475:Brown 1993, pp. 31, 34. 3086:Smith, J.R 2008, p. 60. 2945:List of bomber aircraft 2599:General characteristics 531: 235:("Air Force lighter"). 4047:. Grange Books, 2000. 4030:Wings of the Luftwaffe 3901:Heinkel He 177,277,274 3752:Holm, Michael (2003). 3466:Brown 2007, pp. 82–84. 3343:Heinkel He 177-277-274 2965:Heinkel He 177–277–274 2594:Heinkel He 177,277,274 2588: 2532: 2391:Fernkampfgeschwader 50 2234: 2050:Version optimized for 1815: 1732: 1689: 1595: 1468: 1457: 1355: 1257:25, flying out of the 1107: 1083: 1034: 786: 759: 743:airscrew pitch control 677: 585: 569: 545: 496: 459: 381: 363:. The use of only two 351: 258:Design and development 5103:Orlogsvaerftet HM.II. 3543:forum.axishistory.com 3522:forum.axishistory.com 2587:Heinkel He 177 3-view 2586: 2526: 2286:books to have been a 2232: 1986:Planned, never-built 1809: 1730: 1687: 1585: 1463: 1455: 1352: 1266:facility at Tarnewitz 1101: 1071: 1032: 784: 751: 675: 583: 565: 539: 493: 453: 378: 349: 74:Heinkel Flugzeugwerke 5090:Foreign designations 4365:Company designations 4043:Chant, Christopher. 3754:"Kampfgeschwader 50" 3409:deutscheluftwaffe.de 2977:Munson 1983, p. 292. 2913:Handley Page Halifax 2161:21 cm Nebelwerfer 42 1665:The adoption of the 1061:to a badly designed 1040:Messerschmitt Me 261 288:, and by 1936 this " 280:'s factories in the 7560:Unofficial/proposed 3831:Price 1972, p. 284. 3158:www5a.biglobe.ne.jp 3001:Price 2004, p. 162. 2868:Related development 2667:Daimler-Benz DB 610 2433:Kampfgeschwader 200 2426:Kampfgeschwader 100 2288:"cover designation" 2258:Daimler-Benz DB 603 1722:Operation Steinbock 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Index

Heinkel He 177

heavy bomber
Manufacturer
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
Arado
Luftwaffe
Heinkel He 274
Heinkel He 277
Griffin
heavy bomber
Luftwaffe
World War II
a payload/range capability
European theatre
RLM
Soviet
deep inside Russia
engines of at least 2,000 horsepower (1,500 kW)
Daimler-Benz DB 606
nacelles
lighter
Eastern Front
Velikiye Luki
Operation Steinbock
Generalleutnant
Walther Wever
strategic bombing
Soviet Union
Ural Mountain

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