Heinkel He 111
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Sep 10, 2026
Patrick DarmesHOST
Stand-ins, the producers obtained 32 CASA 2.111 twin-engine bombers, a Spanish-built Merlin-powered version of the German Heinkel.
Patrick DarmesHOST
HE-111.
Patrick DarmesHOST
They also located 27 Hispano Aviación HA-1112 Bouchon, a Spanish version of the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 single-engine fighter.
Patrick DarmesHOST
Over 800 pilots applied to take part in filming, of which 10 RAF pilots were selected.
Tail DraggerHOST
Southern England, the skies above Kent and Sussex are full of noise and smoke and the sound of Merlin engines at full throttle.
Tail DraggerHOST
Somewhere up in that chaos, a British pilot is rolling hard, trying to get his sights on a Heinkel 111 before it reaches London, trying to save a city, maybe trying to save a country.
Tail DraggerHOST
History remembers that pilot in a Spitfire, most of the time he was in a hurricane.
Tail DraggerHOST
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Tail DraggerHOST
The Spitfire faster and more maneuverable at altitude was better matched against the 109 in a turning fight above 20,000 feet.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Hurricane's somewhat slower but incredibly stable as a gun platform was better suited to making gun runs on the larger, slower bomber formations.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Hurricane's eight Browning 303 machine guns, harmonized at around 250 yards, put an enormous volume of fire into a convergence zone that was devastating to the relatively lightly protected Heinkel 111 and Dornier 17 airframes.
Tail DraggerHOST
Now here's where it gets interesting.
Dan SharpGUEST
This thing was basically going to be a twin-engined aircraft with a top speed of 300 kilometers an hour.
Dan SharpGUEST
That resulted in the Heinkel 111, the Dornier 17, and the Ju 86.
Dan SharpGUEST
All three of those aircraft all came from that single requirement that was issued before Hitler or any of these senior Luftwaffe staffers actually came to power.
Dan SharpGUEST
Wölfer Weber, who became the first chief of staff of the Luftwaffe, transferred from the German army to the Reichswehr, the air branch of the Reichswehr, in September 1933.
Dan SharpGUEST
Work on the Heinkel 111, the Dornier 17, and the Ju 86 was already well underway.
Dan SharpGUEST
So they were all before his time, before him.
Dan SharpGUEST
So when he comes in, something else is happening simultaneously.
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Dan SharpGUEST
All that takes about four or five years, okay? So when you're thinking about those requirements, or those requirements that Feather came up with in 1935, 1936, it's going to take like five years to get those things into production.
EmmaPANELIST
Right.
EmmaPANELIST
And Heinkel HE 111s.
EmmaPANELIST
And they were mostly used post-war.
EmmaPANELIST
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RangerHOST
I mean, to be fair, the Army Air Force had issues airdropping supplies in the right places in World War II to our troops.
Mike GonsalvesHOST
If they had the inclination, they would have been able to modify their medium bombers like the HE-111 and stuff like that to just drop crates of food or ammo or whatever.
Mike GonsalvesHOST
Those bombers were busy bombing them.
Mike GonsalvesHOST
They didn't have the food and ammo to drop them.
Andy AitchesonHOST
Late in the afternoon, Spitfire's hurricanes engaged 70 enemy bombers and protecting fighters.
Andy AitchesonHOST
In the dogfights which followed, British pirates shot down six Me-110s, twin-engine fighters, and damaged four Me-110s, four Me-109s, and a He-111.
Andy AitchesonHOST
I'm sure you know what those aircraft are, Merrin, as well.
Andy AitchesonHOST
Without a bomber lost.
Tail DraggerHOST
It is past midnight on August 25th, 1940.
Tail DraggerHOST
A Heinkel He 111 is somewhere over England.
Tail DraggerHOST
The crew of five has been in the air for hours.
Tail DraggerHOST
There's solid cloud below them, a river of black nothing, and they are doing what every bomber crew does in this situation, dead reckoning, hoping, and quietly sweating.
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