The Heinkel He 70 was a German mail plane, passenger, liaison, training and bomber aircraft of the 1930s. Although useful, it had a relatively brief commercial career before it was replaced by types which could carry more passengers. As a combat aircraft, it was a not a great success because it rapidly became outdated. Nevertheless, the He 70 was a brilliant design for its day, setting no fewer than eight world speed records by the beginning of 1933.
The Luftwafe commisioned a light bomber version which which was subsequently used in the Spanish Civil War. Twenty-eight aircraft were sent with the Legion Kondor, where they were used during the Spanish Civil War as fast reconnaissance and bomber aircraft. Their high speed gave them the nickname Rayo (lightning).
Eleven Spanish Civil War survivors flew until 1950 with the "Ejercito del Aire" as liasson aircrafts.
General characteristics
Crew: 2 (pilot and observer)
Length: 12 m (39 ft 4.5 in)
Wingspan: 14.80 m (48 ft 6.75 in)
Height: 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Empty weight: 2,360 kg (5,203 lb)
Loaded weight: 3,460 kg (7,630 lb)
Powerplant: 1× BMW VI 7.3 12-cylinder V type water-cooled engine, (750 hp)
Propellers: metal, two-bladed
Performance
Maximum speed: 360 km/h (224 mph)
Range: 900 km (559 mi)
Armament:
Guns: 1 × 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 15 machine gun aimed from rear cockpit.
Bombs: 6 × 50 kg (110 lb) or 24 x 10 kg (22 lb) bombs internally.
Original FS5 model creator: Mike Hill.
Panel: Default Hurricane CFS panel.
Sound: Default Spitfire CFS sound.
All reworked to FS98/CFS1 with new textures, damage profile and moving parts: Edmundo Abad 2010.
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This virtual model represent a He 70 of 7-G-14 based at Vitoria and Burgos as fast recce and light bomber,1937.
I have included new textures, moving parts and damage profile for use with CFS1, with ficcional armament of one 7.92 mm machine gun on the rear cockpit, and bombs.
Special thanks to Christian Maas for his excellent tool Hex-editor XVI32 and Chuck Dome by his MDL file viewer. Without their tools, I might not have been able to assign new textures to the original model.
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Installation FS98/CFS
1. Unzip to Temporaly directory "he70_spain.zip".
2. Copy "he70_spain" folder to X:\CFS\aircraft directory.
