the aeroplane

By engaging the twin-brothers Siegfried and Walter Günter a new era of aerodynamics broke out at Heinkel, with the sports- aeroplane Heinkel 64 as the first manifestation.

He64 in Rostock

The Günter Brothers, already wellknown about their sports-aeroplane ‘Bäumer Aero Sausewind’, took a similar effort in the details and aerodynamic honing of the Heinkel 64. It is therefore not by chance, that there exists a certain similarity between the two aeroplanes.

Bäumer B II Sausewind, D-639

Sports-aeroplanes and their contests became increasingly popular in Germany – the development was vehement. Whereas the average speeds in the international tourist plane contest 1930 were about 170 km/h, they reached already over 200 km/h in 1932; the Messerschmitt M29 reached a top speed of 268 km/h during the preparations to the contest. In the contest, the Heinkel as the fastest aeroplane scored 241km/h

List of the aeroplanes built (Click on Werknummer or Registrierung for details)

Flug-zeug Werk 
nummer
Regis-trierung Regis-trierung 
Wettbewerb
Pilot im Wettbewerb
He64a 404D-2258 Oskar Notz tot.
He64b 409D-2260 A9 Seidemann/Witt
He64c 423D-2303 A6 Massenbach/Scholz
He64c 424D-2304 C6 Morzik/Dempewolf
He64c 425D-2301 B1 v. Cramon/Dübwart
He64c 426D-2302 A8 Stein/Aumann
He64c 427D-2305 E2 Junck/Beese

In the specification sheet, published by E. Heinkel, the He 64 looks as follows:

Specification sheet He 64 of company E. Heinkel. (Sheet 1)
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Specification sheet He 64 of company E. Heinkel. (Sheet 2)

Interesting the glitch the retoucher made in the picture on the upper left side: Compare the registration on the left wing to the right wing.