Heinkel He 74

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name=He 74


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type=Light fighter and advanced trainer
manufacturer=Heinkel
designer=Günter brothers
first flight=avyear|1933
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variants with their own articles=The Heinkel He 74 was a light fighter aircraft developed in Germany in the early 1930s. It was a conventional, single-bay biplane with staggered, unequal-span wings braced with an I-strut. The pilot sat in an open cockpit, and the undercarriage was of the fixed, tailskid type. It was designed in response to a RLM requirement for a "Heimatschutzjäger" - a light fighter aircraft suitable for purely defensive duties and which would have a secondary role as an advanced trainer for fighter pilots. Although it was not strictly a requirement of the specification, firms submitting designs were urged to use a monoplane layout.

During trials in 1934, the He 74 outperformed its competitors, but in the end, the RLM awarded it third place, behind the Focke-Wulf Fw 56 and Arado Ar 76, believing that since the fighters then being developed were all monoplanes, this configuration was essential for an advanced trainer as well.

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crew=One pilot
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height m=2.20
height ft=7
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empty weight kg=770
empty weight lb=1,697
gross weight kg=1,017
gross weight lb=2,242
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eng1 type=Argus As 10C
eng1 kw= 180
eng1 hp= 240
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max speed kmh=289
max speed mph=174
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range km=370
range miles=230
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armament1=2 × fixed, forward-firing 7.92 mm MG 17 machine guns
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References

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External links

* [http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/he74.html Luftwaffe Resource Centre]
* [http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmi/itf/he74.htm Virtual Aircraft Museum]
* [http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww2/he74.html He.74] (Russian)