weimar republic

Proposal to increase the speed of Zeppelin travel up to 150km/h+ by utilizing one or multiple towing aircraft. Alternatively, a "Zeppelin train" consisting of multiple Zeppelins and unpowered balloons being towed by the combined propulsion of both the Zeppelins and the fixed-wing aircraft. This...

Junkers G.38 flying wing concept. All passenger accomodations would have been placed within the aircraft's wings with forward facing windows. A twin boom design with two engines in pusher configuration was also envisioned. Source: "Prof. Junkers nannte es "Die Fliege"" by Hermann Pohlmann

As well known, Ersatz A was fourth ship of Mackensen-class Battlecruiser, cancelled about 26 months before completion. I tried to search photos of this ship and Ersatz Yorck-same as cancelled 26 months before completion-for getting status of these ships. But I didn't get any real photos of...

Hello everyone, I'm researching the technical legacy of my great-grandfather, Rudolf Schul — an aircraft mechanic and inventor from Magdeburg, Germany, active in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In this forum, it’s mentioned that he patented a design known as the “Schulsche Flügelform,”...

This was unexpected. Probably also what the guy who found the can said. The article is not behind a paywall at the moment, but let me know if it becomes inaccessible. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/nyregion/willy-ley-rocket-ashes.html

In 1929 physicist Hermann Oberth coined the idea for a behemoth space mirror that would reflect sunlight onto Earth during night time, thus creating an everlasting day, and significantly boosting crop yields. Sometime in late World War II, the concept was discovered by the Nazis, who sought to...

I am going to tread carefully with this one but I think it is worth a look. Instead of the Hitler regime from 1933 Germany is run by a conventional centrist party. The Weimar Republic survives. But its strong willed Chancellors still seek to overturn the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty on...

The Invention Of The Jet Engine: Hans Von Ohain, One Of The Fathers Of the Turbojet

The Hermann Oberth Raumfahrt Museum has acquired a file of documents containing photographs, newspaper clippings and comments from Karl Otto Engelbert Poggensee (born December 3, 1903 in Bremen) student of Hinderburg-Polytechnikum, Oldenburg, covering the essays that it carried out between 1930...

This book is written by the german Winkler-Researcher Reinhard Sagner. He focuses on the technical asprects of Winkler´s work in and for the Junkers Company in Dessau in the time between 1929 and 1939, when Winkler left Junkers for the Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Braunschweig. The author has used...

This thread was created to discuss the projects, plans, facilities, operations, and historical implications of the German interwar flight test center and military pilot training school that was developed in secrecy between the Germans and the Russians. This airfield played an important role in...

I'm wondering how the course of passenger airship development in Germany would have unfolded if Hitler and the Nazis had not come to power, because the Nazis disliked Hugo Eckener, even though the Zeppelin company had no choice to adorn the Hindenburg's fins with the swastika emblem due to a...

Hello and welcome, This is no longer the hub for all things Kriegsmarine, but a section of what was once a much larger thread that has since been broken up into various pieces for sake of organization, I suppose. This is now the primary section as far as I am concerned. Links will be included...

Anyone solve the mystery?? Why, oh why did the JUNKERS G.38 4-engined prototype test-fly with a four-bladed propeller, inboard and a two-bladed propeller, outboard on each wing? All four driving engines were identical. Might this have caused any power imbalance/handling or thrust deficit issues...

Hi, here is a Fieseler P.29,P.30 and Fi.333,also P.35; P.29 was a military transport Project,intended to compete Arado Ar.232,led to develop Fi.333 P.30 was an unconventional military transport Project,later became Fi.333 P.35 was initial design for Fi.103...

Recently, while browsing the Imperial German Navy section of a webpage of unbuilt ship pictures and plans, I found this photo of a never-built German battleship, which appears to have 6 main battery turrets. The picture was named "Blatt-2" and was the only picture in a folder labeled...

https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/81025-wargaming-what-on-earth-is-this-yorck/ any original drawing regarding the admiral graf spee conception and why it was fitted with that tower? was this tower decided to be fitted in this ship from the start?

Known Messerschmitt Projects Numbers P.1091 a modified Me 109 G with Daimler Benz 605A & turbo loader P.1092 Jet Fighter with one Jumo 004C engine and arrow wing P.1093 unknow P.1094 unknow P.1095 that became Me328A There indication that number 1092 to 1095 was part design for one single...

As you all know Richard Vogt was send to Kawasaki by Dornier for the production of Dornier types. Later he became chief designer at the Kawasaki factory. For a few types there is information which he designed for the company. But who can help me with a list of aeroplanes and projects designed by...