The Luftwaffes Obsolete, Premiere Torpedo Bomber - Heinkel He 115

In a brief window of history, Heinkels He 115 was a state of the art, modern torpedo bomber. However, the march of technology was not kind to aircraft of its class, and the He 115 soon found itself in a world full of aircraft it could not contend with, here is it's history!
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Sources
Dabrowski, H.-P. (1997). Heinkel He 115 Torpedo/Reconnaissance/Mine Layer Seaplane of the Luftwaffe. Schiffer Publishing, Limited.
Wings of the Motherland. Alexander Gladkov. The last of the Heinkel family
Arms and Armour. Manfred Griehl. Heinkel Combat Aircraft
0:00 - 1:10 Introduction
1:11 - 3:01 Design and Development
3:02 - 6:00 Testing and Prototypes
6:01 - 11:31 Early Service History
11:32 - 14:21 Late War Trouble
14:22 - 15:44 Conclusion

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[@MrDino1953]

It certainly looked well-designed and modern for a 1930’s plane.

[@Jeffei-qs7kp]

Ww2 Seaplanes and flying boats from all nations at war are art.

[@chrismartin3197]

Don’t know if you cover it - but they pulled one of these up in Norway a few years ago

[@JasonMcCord-qk3yb]

I think that’s the second “survivor” that he mentioned in the end. I don’t know if I would classify that as a “survivor”, but it does exist…

[@Redgolf2]

It was covered extensively in Aeroplane Monthly and Flypast Monthly. Its in fantastic condition

[@anners8]

Thank you so much for making this! As a Norwegian aircraft nerd, this was brilliant!

[@noahwail2444]

Years ago, I read that a He 115 was flown to an Siberian ialand, to set up a base there, in order to conduckt recon of the northern passage, and attack coastal ships. It was supplied by submarine, both fuel, food and weapons. It lasted only a few months, until the winterweather closed in on them. But talk about feeling alone, and a long way from home, sitting on that island...

[@tobiasfreitag2182]

I remember that story but in an article about the BV.138. I have to look it up but I think they even had a small seaplane base and where refused by submarines

[@Leonidae]

In Finland we used these to infil/exfil our light infantry behind enemy lines.

[@markingelin9773]

The movie 'Action in the North Atlantic' included a scene where a tanker is being strafed by German float planes. These planes may have been He 115s.

[@haraldhannelius]

Finland mentioned! To the square!

[@TheLateBird7]

Good job!! You managed to make a very interesting video about a plane that many would pass off as "meh" for its looks and performance. I think in popular documentaries the "aquatic" theaters of war, where air, sea and land forces mingle, are generally underrepresented because they are so complex.

[@aviationdeepdive]

Interesting point, and glad you enjoyed it

[@salvagedb2470]

Great vid , Luvd the Battle footage " Pull up you Tin Box "..Still like the He 115 for me it was a good looking Aircraft.

[@NanatsukiBenio]

yeah, beautiful aircraft

[@Hamishtarah]

I love your videos they are very well structured, instructive and captivating.

[@JGCR59]

The Küstenflieger, while part of the Luftwaffe, were sort of a seperate Mini-Air Force tasked solely with coastal flying. A bit like the RAF Coastal Command. The idea of attack floatplanes goes back to WW1 when the Imperial German Navy had used floatplanes as Seekampfflugzeuge in a variety of roles from long range fighter to submarine hunter to light bomber.

[@martinryan2370]

Great work BV138 next?

[@airplayn]

What sim did you use for the video production? Nice touch using Norwegian chatter and subtitles. Gave it a feeling of authenticity.

[@aviationdeepdive]

I used War Thunder for most of this one, with the exception of the Ju 52 crash scene which was from IL2.

[@mineplow1000]

Damn I love me some float-planes! Thank you!

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

Thanks for the video! Awesome. There were planes like this depicted in the WW2 film Action in the North Atlantic.

[@Curious-Minds]

Finally, I've been waiting for the next one all week. 😂😅😊

[@aviationdeepdive]

Sorry for the wait!

[@Curious-Minds]

​@@aviationdeepdive worth the wait.

[@YeahJustMe]

Really appreciate the effort you go to in order to cover these more obscure aircraft. Looking forward to your future videos!

[@artificialhorizon9945]

Excellent video! I didn't know much about this plane. This was very informative for me. Keep up the good work! And the whole channel is great.

[@aviationdeepdive]

Thanks a lot!

[@artificialhorizon9945]

@aviationdeepdive I have a channel about aviation also. If you have time please check it out.i would like to hear your opinion Thanks and good luck Ps. I subscribed to your channel and will watch your videos regularly

[@clarencehopkins7832]

Excellent stuff bro

[@oleriis-vestergaard6844]

In Norway they resently raised a type Heinkel HE 115 out of a lake so maybe it will get restored back to former glory

[@alessandrosassolini9161]

Wonderful! Very similar to CANT Z 506 excepted for 3 engines design typical of Italian aeroplanes of that times

[@rossmunro7084]

Great Video on an aircraft that gets very little coverage.

[@christopherwebber3804]

The rest of the planes in the Küstenflieger were old biplanes and whatever could be found that was left-over from the inter-war years. This plane was, by comparison, quite modern. It achieved a good record for sinking British ships with torpedoes in the North Sea - but there was a shortage of torpedoes. Goering hated the navy and progressively took back all the planes and pilots allocated to the Küstenflieger. As a result, there were few crews trained in naval co-operation and some desperately needed German destroyers were sunk in a daylight attack by these men. They were replaced by Ju-88s used by a Luftwaffe gruppe specially trained in anti-shipping strikes that did a lot of damage.

[@kevinchapman635]

The air crew’s stocked up them with a lot of ropes lines and life saving equipment and rations for life at sea for all

[@MarkkuKoljonenwTinja]

Thanks! :D

[@ralphbernhard1757]

7:15 WW2's most slow-motion dogfight 😂

[@justcarcrazy]

This was a good-looking plane. Imagine what it could accomplish with 2 BMW 801 engines and retractable wheels replacing the draggy floats.

[@rayshowsay1749]

Thought it was to be a docu of the He115 ... but turned out to be more like a promo of Flight Sim.

[@geordiedog1749]

One theatre in WW2 that is terribly ignored is the battle of the east coast convoys. For the dirty British coaster with their salt caked smoke stacks there was no ‘phoney war’ The RAF was useless as usual and the RN over stretched and waiting for the RNPS to come up to speed to provide cover. Consequently, the Coasters and colliers from the north east and Scotland were sent up and down the east coast to keep the south east from panicking from a lack of coal (coal for the south was brought down from the north via the colliers down the east coast as London alone needed 25000 long tonnes of coal a week). These He 115 would attack the coastal convoys with mines, bombs and torpedoes while they fought back with old Lewis and Savage guns welded onto the bridges of the colliers and manned by hastily trained sailors. The poor colliers were slaughtered.

[@johnholt890]

At least one-off the Norwegian ones was used for shipping agents into Vichy North Africa from Malta. Commander Charles Lamb in his great book “War in a Stringbag” describes how such a mission went wrong and he was prisoner appalling treated by the Vichy French.

[@forenamesurname1183]

8:35 YOU CAN HEAR THE WAR THUNDER BLEEP - OTHERWIDE NICE VIDS

[@AntonioLopes-on4pe]

Hi, thanks for the video. Very interesting. I recall having built one of these in 1/72, don't remember the kit brand. I' ll have to look for it now! I was also impressed by the footage on the flight simulator. Can you please share which one are you using ? Thanks! Looking forward for more videos. Cheers, António

[@leboi8528]

They used warthunder as the flight simulator

[@aviationdeepdive]

Thanks for the comment António, the footage is from War Thunder, though the Ju 52 crash scene is from IL2 Sturmovik.

[@tbjtbj7930]

That will be the Matchbox kit, now boxed by Revell. Its a good model of a pretty plane.

[@salvagedb2470]

Somebody said it already , I have it in Revell.

[@totalitaer.]

Heinkel describes in his memoirs how in one of the HE 115 delivered to Sweden one tank was filled with about 1000 liter SCHNAPS, as there was a high tax on alcohol in Sweden.😉

[@SterbenTod]

where did you get the onboard radio chatter like in the Ki-87 video?

[@aviationdeepdive]

I get it from friends who speak the language!

[@SterbenTod]

@@aviationdeepdive oh... noted. Thanks for the info and the great video as well.

[@christopherthrawn1333]

If used in large numbers it might cripped the British convoys next to the UBoats.

[@geekpoet7443]

Are you using a game for some of your videos?

[@aviationdeepdive]

Yeah, a mix of War Thunder and IL2 for the combat sequences and some ambient footage

[@kevinchapman635]

Yes In 2012

[@christopherthrawn1333]

How was it effective?

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

1,000 gallons is 4,500 litres, unless you are using US gallons?

[@bibia666]

Obsolete??? 🤦‍♂️... Sigh. Greetings bibia

[@navigatorstrato7232]

非常好视频，爱来自中国

[@stevepelham9010]

The finns used atleast two of these. The norwegian one and as leased from the germans where the numbers are kind of shady fog of war. The finns liked it very much that much that they made ski and wheel kits to it so no wonder that they blasted the one ditched in that lake. The finns also made lot of bombing sorties with the Heinkel He115 not loosing a singel one. He 115 is one of them planes that makes me belive that by ideology the german was pretty single minded fellow. A good template to work on, develope but no instead other types not that much better if all. The finns liked it and they where in to quality picking so they asked for the He 115 and they got them an leasing contract whiles the germans ??? hahaha..wait an minute.. what a F#! There is a twist to it, the finns awaked the germans and the He 115 saw an revival getting upgraded.

[@christopherthrawn1333]

My God the Germans had weapons in the 30s that were decades ahead.

[@hendrygmail4161]

War thunder game LoL 😂😂