Heinkel He 112 during trials with liquid fuel rocket propulsion at Neuhardenberg in the 1930s
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The Heinkel He 112 is a German fighter aircraft designed by Walter and Siegfried Günter. It was one of four aircraft designed to compete for the 1933 fighter contract of the Luftwaffe, in which it came second behind the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Small numbers were used for a short time by the Luftwaffe and some were built for other countries, around 100 being completed.
In 1931, the Army Weapons Office testing ground at Kummersdorf had taken over research into liquid-fuel rockets. In 1932, Wernher von Braun designed a rocket of this kind which used high percentage spirit and liquid oxygen. With this he made the first experiments. In 1934 he fired his second rocket type, the A2, from the North Sea island of Borkum. Having completed the program of experiments, von Braun was interested in evaluating an aircraft with a rocket motor propulsion system. For this he needed an aircraft and support team. Initially the highest levels at the Army High Command and the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) were opposed to such "fantasies", as they called them. Many people, technicians and academic experts in positions of influence in aeronautics, maintained that an aircraft driven by a tail thrust would experience a change in the center of gravity and flip over. Very few believed the contrary, but one of them was Ernst Heinkel. Following his offer of unhesitating support, Heinkel placed at the disposal of von Braun an He 112 fuselage shell less wings for the standing tests.
In 1936 von Braun had advanced far enough to begin trials. A great tongue of flame from the rocket motor roared through the fuselage tail to set up the back thrust. Late in 1936 Erich Warsitz was seconded by the RLM to Wernher von Braun and Ernst Heinkel, because he had been recognized as one of the most experienced test pilots of the time, and because he also was technically proficient.
The RLM agreed to lend Neuhardenberg, a large field about 70 kilometres east of Berlin and listed as a reserve airfield in the event of war, for trials Since Neuhardenberg had no buildings or facilities, a number of marquees were erected to house the aircraft. In the spring of 1937 the Kummersdorf Club transferred to Neuhardenberg and continued the standing trials with the He 112 fuselage.
In June 1937 Erich Warsitz undertook the initial flight testing of the He 112 fitted with von Braun's rocket engine. Despite the wheels-up landing and having the fuselage on fire, it proved to official circles that an aircraft could be flown satisfactorily with a back-thrust system through the rear.
Also the firm of Hellmuth Walter at Kiel had been commissioned by the RLM to build a rocket engine for the He 112, so there were two different new rocket motor designs at Neuhardenberg; whereas the von Braun's engines were powered by alcohol and liquid oxygen, Walter engines had hydrogen peroxide and calcium permanganate as a catalyst. Von Braun's engine used direct combustion and created fire, the Walter produced hot vapors from a chemical reaction, but both created thrust and provided high speed.[25] The subsequent flights with the He 112 used the Walter-rocket instead of von Braun's; it was more reliable, simpler to operate and the dangers to test pilot Erich Warsitz and machine were less.
At 1:12 the He 112 can be seen to complete a short flight on rocket propulsion alone.
Very interesting footage as I never seen it before! Here is the following excerpt from Wikipedia: In June 1937 Erich Warsitz undertook the initial flight testing of the He 112 fitted with von Braun's rocket engine and later also the firm of Hellmuth Walter at Kiel had been commissioned by the RLM to build a rocket engine for the He 112, so there were two different new rocket motor designs at Neuhardenberg; whereas the von Braun's engines were powered by alcohol and liquid oxygen, Walter engines had hydrogen peroxide and calcium permanganate as a catalyst. Von Braun's engine used direct combustion and created fire, the Walter produced hot vapours from a chemical reaction, but both created thrust and provided high speed. Thank you for sharing this very interesting footage 👍👍
Holy Lord, I read about this but I never knew there was footage of it, thank you so much for uploading it!
pleasure!
At 1:12 you can see a plane take off with no propeller and with only the rockets.. insane stuff!!!
and he landed it...hats off to the pilots, srsly
there's still a prop on the plane. the engine is just off.
@@fockwulf1 so thats what he meant!
The takeoff without prop engine running. This is amazing footage.
Thank you so much. I am a German male. 51 yo. I am interesting in it since childhood. I never saw a vid like this. I be a big fan of Heinkel. Every one must imagine. Germany was it forbidden since the lost war ,1918, to developing war planes, and high power plane engines. We fall back, 13-15 years to the others. And Heinkel? Building the first world jet plane he 218 ? In 1938-1939? In the 10 year's, Germany was in space. Operation paperclip. All was stolen by US. France,Brits and Russian. Germany technology was forwarded 30 ,others tell 100 years. The smartphone revolution, it could be starting 30 Yeats earlier. Imagine
"All was stolen by US. France, Brits and Russian."
To the victor go the spoils. (Actually victors in this case.)
Moral of the story: if you want to keep your intellectual property, then don't lose the fight!
Staffelkapitän of 1./J88 and veteran of Spanish Civil War, Harro Harder, also tested He112 under combat conditions in April 1938.
Such famous aces as Gunther Radusch, Max Schulz and Wilhelm Balthasar flew He112 V6.
Wonderful footage...amongst the most interesting yet. Keep 'em coming buddy
Crazy acceleration! Where the heck do you find this stuff? Keep it coming. 👌
Cool footage! The Walter peroxide engine was hardly less dangerous than the Von Braun rocket. Concentrated Peroxide is difficult to handle, extremely reactive stuff and injured ground crew and pilots alike.
I live not far from Neuhardenberg (about 30km) and only know the airfield from the post-war period when MiG 21s and GDR government aircraft flew there.
Very interesting article! That test flights were also carried out there before the war was completely new to me!
Never seen this before' thank you for this.
Kudos to the pilot!
Awesome video! Thank you.
So, we just met the grandpa of Me 163 Komet.
If the C-stoff leaks into the T-stoff,
the pilot will be P-stoff.
ROFL...
The first one looked like the pilot was having an epic struggle controlling his aircraft
The second one looked like the pilot wasn't expecting the thrust vector to be slightly above the C-of-G - they nearly did a nose-over. Looking at the static test at the end of the clip, there's an auxilary exhaust (possibly from a turbo-driven fuel pump?) which fires towards the rear and downwards - the thrust from that isn't as much as that of the rocket engine, but it would have an effect.
I doubt it will pass the emission tests
Any records of the test pilots' assessments?
Mr Warsitz wrote a book, mostly about these early rocket flights.
@@pasikeskivali2793 cheers!
Where did you find this? Ernst Heinkel was brilliant
Credit the brothers Siegfried and Walter Günter, not Heinkel.
@@string-bag the first He 112 to fly with a rocket engine was made by von Braun
Incredible!
I do wonder if the pilot really had any idea of what he was letting himself in for !
Rock it man
This is 2022. This is footage of forties
Germans were 60 ahead of the world. Hats off to German scientists, technicians and designers and ofcourse the pilots who had no experience of knowing what will happen
Hats off to germans
They don't call it German engineering for nothing. They had incredible technology back then and even now
Their technology was just out of this world, yet it was the very thing that cost them war, second after their leader.
30s pretty advanced , I think there were some politics going on in the favour to Messerschmitt. I’m sure I’ve heard or read something from Eric “winkle” brown on the subject and how heinkel …. may have been the better forward thinking firm ( that isn’t a quote I’m just trying to remember) also I don’t think he was too keen on Willie Messerschmitt ..
apologies if the spellings wrong 😬 the phones auto correct was going crazy 😂
Warthunder event vehicle when???
VTEC kicked in,Yo!💥
Rocket propulsion was hardly a unique feat in late 30-s, Soviets experimented with it as well until Stalin purged the scientists.
Did he purge them or put them to other uses in a sharashka?
@@vk2ig different. Some were executed, some survived in sharashkas, lucky few weren't touched. E.G., Langemak was executed, Korolev and Glushko first sent to camps, then to sharashkas
Wow a tail dragger with JATO?! Scary
100% safe
I feel like inserting that “Gas Gas Gas” song here.
plows the field and makes the plane go, true german efficiency.
Well... This isn't sketchy at all...
0:04 First i tought it was a f4u cosair
I aim for the stars, but sometimes hit London.
Where did you find this footage?
Why on earth would you not use that extra thrust after youd just left the ground ? seems a waste to use it trundling along up to take off speed which you could do on the prop ? unstick light or apply the rocket and then climb literally like a rocket ?
I was ment for short takeoff on short runways, and upto height to intercept bombers, thats all
@@ssekweyamapius7643 nothing about "meant". this was testing. they tested everything.
Previous at Jato rockets!
I have an HW97K !
Great for squirrels.
Not really, the stock is a bit too big for their little paws!
@@hw97karbine
Lmao
@@hw97karbine Let them try chicken stock or beef stock instead ...
the Germans were crazy,lol.
...fortunately you are not, so you can write intelligent comments.
@@fasold2164 no need to be snarky,it was kind of a backhanded compliment.
Genius and crazy go hand in hand
@@shable1436 true
Crazy intelligent, perhaps. Resourceful and innovative as hell.
Heinkel 112 when it was cool
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Those poor test pilots
He112A if anyone is interested
Heinkel > Messerschmitt
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