Heinkel He 59 biplane floatplanes on exercise during the late 1930s
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- The Heinkel He 59 was a twin-engined German biplane designed in 1930 to meet a Reichsmarine requirement for a torpedo bomber and reconnaissance aircraft able to operate on wheeled landing gear or twin-floats.
The aircraft was of a mixed-material construction. The wings were made of a two-beam wooden frame, where the front was covered with plywood and the rest of the wing was covered with fabric, while the tail section was covered with sheet metal. The box-shaped fuselage was a fabric-covered steel frame. The keels of the floats were used as fuel tanks with each one holding 900 L The propellers were fixed-pitch with four blades and driven by BMW VI 6.0 zu V-12 liquid-cooled engines.
During the first months of World War II, the He 59 was used as a torpedo- and minelaying aircraft. It was also serving with various Seenotstaffeln (Air Sea Rescue) as well as landing troops in Norway and Holland in the Spring of 1940. Between 1940 and 1941 the aircraft was used by four KüFlGr (Kürstfliegergruppe/Coastal reconnaissance group), and in 1941-42 as a transport, air-sea rescue, and training aircraft. Some had been operated by the Condor Legion in Spain during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 as coastal reconnaissance and torpedo floatplanes.
During the Battle of Britain, they were used to rescue Luftwaffe aircrew who were forced to ditch in the English Channel. In spite of their Red Cross markings in this role, the British claimed that the air-sea rescue aircraft were being used for reconnaissance and were therefore legitimate targets, with several being brought down. A statement from the Air Ministry on July 14th 1940 read as follows:
"Enemy aircraft bearing civil markings and marked with the Red Cross have recently flown over British ships at sea and in the vicinity of the British coast, and they are being employed for purposes which His Majesty’s government cannot regard as being consistent with the privileges generally accorded to the Red Cross.
His Majesty’s government desire to accord the ambulance aircraft reasonable facilities for the transportation of the sick and wounded in accordance with the Red Cross Convention, and aircraft engaged in direct evacuation of the sick and wounded will be respected, provided that they comply with the relevant provisions of the Convention.
His Majesty’s government are unable, however, to grant such immunity to aircraft flying over areas in which operations are in progress on land or at sea, or approaching British or Allied territory, or territory in British occupation, or British or Allied ships. Ambulance aircraft which do not comply with the above requirements will do so at their own risk and peril."
The British were keen to maintain vital shipping routes, particularly through the Channel, and had put one and one together and come up with three. They believed that German air-sea rescue aircraft were spotting British shipping which was subsequently attacked. In fact there is no evidence that this was the case and the interrogations of surviving crew from these aircraft shows that they were genuinely surprised at the suggestion they would do such a thing. The aircraft were unarmed and the crews all registered with the Red Cross in Geneva, but this was not enough to persuade the British.
Most of the 140 B-2s and B-3s built by Arado were later converted by the Walter Bachmann Flugzeugbau for air/sea rescue (He 59C-2 and D-1) or specialized training in navigation (He 59C-1, D-1 and N), torpedo dropping (E-1) and photographic roles (E-2). All these variants were unarmed with the exception of the the He 59N. - Věda a technologie
0:52 that transition was sick AF
Huge biplane!
I love the massive size and scale of the plane and it’s still open cockpit
incredible footage and lovely airplane. recently learned that they were used to destroy trains in the spanish civil war armed with a 20mm on the front gunner seat
This nose gunner is a gigachad version of the Titanic movie scene. 😀
Had to be a COLD RIDE for the front gunners 😮
Beautiful seaplane
This is so beautiful I could watch it for an hour.
Typical of mid 30s biplanes. Good handling and reliable but underpowered, short ranged, and not enough payload for the Luftwaffe's plans.
love the side drone footage and front gunner cam!
Remarkable footage. Lovely machine; would've loved flying them, except that they were fighter-bait of the first magnitude. Must've been very brave crews; even those marked with red crosses as air-sea rescue were ordered shot down by Churchill.
Der Wienerschnitzel must have gotten awful small being so cold riding in front.
That would take some guts to be the dude sitting in the open nose turret.
Have a look at the Wikipedia page for the RAF FE2 from WW1, in particular the image of the gunner showing how to fire to the rear 😊
That beautiful tail wing emblem
WTF?
@@cal-native ohhh cry about it why don't you?:p
he59s are the ones that were doing ASR work in the channel during BoB picking up downed pilots from both sides.the brits had no organized ASR at that time. sadly, even though they flew all-white, with red crosses/ambulance liveries, the british still shot them down, sometimes with british on board. this was due to fear that the ASR would be used to radio in ship locations etc. this prompted LW to start repainting them in camo schemes. it was also the germans that placed rescue buoys in the channel, for use by either side. later the brits developed their own versions
Even after U Boats were ordered not to rescue the enemy after sinking their vessels since it became too dangerous, they were still deploying life rafts.
为什么视频都是没声音的呢
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