Tell me about the HE111

[Mongoose]

  I have found another plane that needs to be updated in the airplane wiki.  So....

Calling all HE111 pilots.  Tell me about the HE111. 

Tell me about things like
Firepower
Maneuverability
Fighting in the He 111H
Fighting against the He 111H
 
  I will compile the results for the wiki.

[Lusche]

Tell me about things like
Firepower abysmal
Maneuverability like a barn door
Fighting in the He 111H means dying
Fighting against the He 111H it's killing, not 'fighting' it

 

[800nate800]

I beat 2 190D-9s in a dog fight with 1. 2 foward 20mms are fun

[Cthulhu]

A cement mixer with flat tires can out turn a 190D.

[Zerstorer]

A cement mixer with flat tires can out turn a 190D.

Absolutely untrue and hurtful! 

I outturned a Spit IX once in a Dora.  It was close but I did it!   










I later discovered the pilot was a two-weeker with the stall limiter turned on. 

[Cthulhu]

Absolutely untrue and hurtful! 

I outturned a Spit IX once in a Dora.  It was close but I did it!   











I later discovered the pilot was a two-weeker with the stall limiter turned on. 

I figured he was afk and you eventually caught him on the third full turn. 

[Volron]

Speed: Wait, this thing moves?

[Zerstorer]

I figured he was afk and you eventually caught him on the third full turn. 

Nope.  He was only AFK for the first few minutes of the engagement.

[glzsqd]

HE111 is one of the few planes I have true sympathy for when I encounter them. Ill try and fly escort for them, but usually I just get shot at and have to put her down. Humanely of course.

It carries a good payload, its Sexy, and its the only updated German bomber that can be flown in formation, that's about all it has going for it. If you want a German style buff raid that isn't limited to 64Bit textures than the HE111 is your plane. I think the only advantage it holds over its counter part, the ju88 is range.

[Lusche]

It carries a good payload, its Sexy, and its the only updated German bomber that can be flown in formation

No German formation bomber in AH has ever been updated    

[glzsqd]

No German formation bomber in AH has ever been updated    

What I meant was a German formation bomber modelled sometime in the last decade

[Karnak]

A 64 bit texture would be really, really good. 

Mayhap you mean 8 bit or 16 bit?  Still, not really how AH textures work, but a better approximation of "bad".

[glzsqd]

A 64 bit texture would be really, really good. 

Mayhap you mean 8 bit or 16 bit?  Still, not really how AH textures work, but a better approximation of "bad".

It looks like a bad guy from the DOS sidescroller KEEN.

[Mongoose]

  All of this is nice and funny.     And the humor is appreciated.

  But now, can we please get some useful information? 

[GScholz]

I think Pembquist summed it up very nicely:

"Starting with the Spanish Civil War, in my opinion nothing says nazi bomber like an he 111. It represents cutting edge technology of the thirties, the remilitarization of Germany, aspirations of conquest and domination, and brutal narcissistic pageantry that held the rest of the world in lethal contempt. In the end it became as outmoded as the ideas and leadership of the nation that built it. And while as aesthetically complete a distillation of violence as beauty as the Hugo Boss uniforms of the German millitary, it also shared the unfortunate feature of being a very dangerous thing to be in by 1944."