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The Heinkel HD 32 was a trainer developed in
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in the 1920s, a derivative of the HD 21. Like that aircraft, it was a conventional,
single-bay A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While a ...
biplane A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
, but had only two
cockpit A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a Pilot in command, pilot controls the aircraft. The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the ...
s rather than the three that the HD 21 had. The other significant change was the use of a Siemens
radial engine The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. It resembles a stylized star when viewed from the front, and is ca ...
in place of the inline units that powered most of the HD 21 family. A number of HD 32s participated in the 1925
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, including one powered by a
Bristol Lucifer The Bristol Lucifer was a British three-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft. Built in the UK in the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, it produced 100 horsepower (75 kW). The Lucifer was originally a Cosmos Engineering e ...
engine.


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* {{Heinkel aircraft 1920s German military trainer aircraft HD 32 Aircraft first flown in 1926