More details please,I don’t get it [:^)]
It’s from the new Indiana Jones trailer. Another looks-sort-of-but-not-quite-familiar Evil Nazi a/c from (I’m presuming) the wizards at ILM. [8-|]
I had heard that the HE-111 started out as a airliner but ended up as a bomber. Maybe that is supposed to be one of those but it seems to have a nose gun position.
Just a speculation.
I do know this, it doesn’t look a thing like a B-52D. Seen enough of them to know that much.
Gregg nailed it!
I’ve seen all the earlier movies in this series and like any warm blooded model builder I’m looking forward to seeing this (last one?) on June 29th.
Just wanted to add a good pic of that Nazi imposter for anyone interested. I kinda like it maybe better than the original. Things have come a long way from the aircraft and tank props from earlier episodes.
Hmm… haven’t been in a theatre in a few years… 
I guess they stil have popcorn.
I’ve been a local movie theater regular since they reopened…that’s where I saw the trailer! [:D]
Popcorn’s still as greasy and slightly stale as ever…but I love the theater big-screen (and live audience) experience. Even with the best of TV’s, it’s just not the same.
I’ve always enjoyed the Indy movies also although u haven’t been to a theater since 2010
Down here in Orlando they have the tank from the third Indy movie on display at Epcot. At least they did the last time I was there.
I haven’t been to an actual movie theater since one of the Harry Potter movies.
Been years since I’ve been to the movie theater but the last few times we were going to those high-end, recliner, food & drink service places. Really fun.
Didn’t an HE111 have a single vertical stab?
Everything else cries out 111. I suppose one could be modified easily enough.
The last movie I saw in the theater was Star Wars at it’s inital release. Metal folding seats with almost no padding, had to smuggle in beer and food but at least there were ashtrays in the seat arms.
I wonder why a regular He-111 wasn’t used. The twin fins and second dorsal gun position are puzzling to me. If they wanted a scarier looking real airplane with twin fins and two dorsal gun stations, there’s the Ju-290. Artistic license at the behest of the director? Copyright? Board of directors meddling?
In the original film, the flying wing had what looked like a Boulton Paul tail turret when a Ikaria cone turret would have been more appropriate. Sorry, I’m just a Luftwaffe modeler thinking out loud.
'Cuz Hollywood.
They are not going for historical accuracy in these movies so they build for effect and as you said somebody somewhere figured that looked cooler than the boring old real thing.
'Cuz real life is soooooo boring. [:(]
It was presented as an airliner during development and its initial roll-out. But that was a cover to get around Versailles restrictions on German air forces. It was intended from the beginning to be used as a bomber.
Is the airplane in the OP’s image even real, that is, a physical aircraft? Or is it a CGI image? I haven’t seen any previews of the movie, so I don’t know. In the movie, does it appear on a ramp somewhere, and people have interaction with it? And even in the case of people interacting with the airplane, it could still be computer-generated.
That is, I’m not sure anyone modified an existing He-111/CASA 2.111.
The OP’s image appears to have Jumo engines, although ground shots with a real airplane would probably be Spanish CASAs with the Hispano engines. The “tell” is the larger chin radiators of the CASAs.
It is a CGI image.
Just like the Panzer 1 was developed and built as a “large tractor”
Most of the Luftwaffe multi-engine types in service at the start of the war had ostensibly been developed – as Herr Baron pointed out, due to Versailles restrictions – either as passenger planes or…my favorite…‘fast mail planes’ with ‘special cargo capacity.’ (That would be bombs.)
It is indeed a CG image. I thought I spotted the CASA type nacelles the first time I saw the trailer, and wondered if they’d used airshow or other modern footage as the template for the image programming. The twin fins were never a projected He111 design feature, as far as I know…just added to look ‘cool,’ I guess, unless it somehow works into a bit of necessary ‘business’ on-screen…