The Heinkel He 46 was a German World War II-era monoplane designed in 1931 for the close reconnaissance and army co-operation roles. While it served with the Luftwaffe's front-line units only briefly at the start of World War II. Also was used by the Nationalists forces during the Spanish Civil War, and Hungarian and Bulgarian air forces in the Eastern Front.
During the early 1930s, the German military was beginning to build up in strength. The RLM (German Air Ministry) wanted aircraft that could be rapidly built and would be able to swell the Luftwaffe's inventory with large numbers of aircraft for training. Ernst Heinkel designed many of these early aircraft. The He 46, for instance was, created to fill the short-range reconnaissance and army co-operation role for the Luftwaffe.
In 1933, production started on the He 46. The first production version, the He 46C-1, featured the improvements added to the prototypes, plus it could carry either a camera or 200 kg (441lb) of bombs. By 1934, about 500 He 46s had been built, and, by 1936, the Luftwaffe's aerial reconnaissance wings were all equipped with the He 46. In September 1938, 20 He 46C-1s were given to the Spanish Nationalists for use in the Spanish Civil War. By the spring of 1938, the Luftwaffe started to gradually replace the He 46 with the Henschel Hs 126, and by the time of the Invasion of Poland in 1939, only two units were still equipped with the He 46. By the time Germany invaded France in 1940, all He 46 aircraft had been withdrawn from operational service, although they did continue service in training units. The Hungarians, with He 46s supplied by Germany, took the He 46 to war against the Soviet Union in 1941 as part of Operation Barbarossa, during which the planes served up to 1943. The Germans took the He 46 back to war in 1943, when aircraft were taken from training units and used for night-bombing harassment missions over the Soviet Union.
(Source: Wikipedia on line).
General characteristics
Crew: 2 (pilot, observer/gunner)
Length: 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 14 m (45 ft 11¼ in)
Height: 3.4 m (11 ft 11¾ in)
Wing area: 32.2 m² (347 ft²)
Empty weight: 1,765 kg (3,891 lb)
Loaded weight: 2,300 kg (5,070 lb)
Powerplant: 1× Bramo SAM 22B (later called 322B) radial piston engine, 493 kW (660 hp)
Performance
Maximum speed: 250 km/h (135 kn, 155 mph)
Range: 1,000 km (540 nmi, 621 mi)
Service ceiling: 6,000 m (19,680 ft)
Armament
2 × 7.92 mm (0.312 in) MG 15 machine guns.
Up to 20 × 10 kg (22 lb) bombs
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Based on FS.5/FSFS Pegasus Aviation Design/Frank Elton.
All reworked to CFS, with new air file, up-scaled, damage profile, moving parts and new textures by Edmundo Abad, 2012.
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This virtual model represent a Luftwaffe Heinkel 46c with pre-war colors.
This virtual model is up-scaled to obtain a better view in Combat Flight Simulator.
(for accurate scale in FS98, replace the file He46c.mdl by He46c.old.mdl and rename this as He46c.mdl)
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Installation FS98/CFS
1. Unzip to Temporaly directory "He46c".
2. Copy "He46c" folder to X:\CFS\aircraft directory.
3. If you want to intall the additional panel created by Pegasus Aviation Design, follow the intructions included on he46pan.zip file.
