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Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH, München-Ramersdorf Famous WWI fighter ace and stunt pilot Ernst Udet lent his name to this company but the aircraft were designed by Ing. Hans Henry Herrmann. Udet left the firm in the spring 1925. In 1926 financially-strapped Udet-Flugzeugbau was converted into a into a...

Hello All! Anybody maybe have more information about the Messerschmitt M28? It seems there is very little available, very bad quality pictures also... Maybe a three view? In some places there are 3 views of a high wing plane? Are there any articles dealing with this plane? Many thanks in advance!

Following the sad passing of the author Manfred Griehl last November, I doubt his pending volume on Fieseler (Fieseler: Flugzeuge seit 1933 - Typenkompass) will ever see publication. This is a great shame as Gerhard Fieseler was a World War I fighter ace who was also a stunt, aerobatic and test...

From Jet & Prop 04-05-06/2001, we can talk here about Germany early canard aircraft and projects,the Aachener Segelflugzeugbau GmhH company with its designer Prof. Klemperer created many aircraft,one of them was a flying boat canard project,followed by FVA-3 single seat canard light aircraft...

Born in 1893 in Absberg / Germany, Reinhold Tiling had begun to work on rockets during 1924. For a safe landing of his rockets, he developed the two techniques: The "Kreiselflugzeug" (Gyroplane), where the tailplane switched to a kind of rotor after burn-out of the rocket engine, decelerating...

A very interesting eight wheel prototype of armored card produced by Magirus on 1920s. A detailed history is on the site of the firm which produced a very nice resin kit: http://www.leadwarrior.com/Lw35210-h.htm But I can't find a 3d view, just a low resolution side view Anyone can help...

...so as not to hijack the British thread! Let's start with a subject to which I hope to be able to make a meager contribution to: design constraints and philosophy behind design decisions. Hermione Giffard's PhD thesis and hopefully soon-to-be book "The Development and Production of Turbojet...

The LVG was ordered in 1917 to develop a "Großflugzeug" (large aircraft) in tri-plane configuration, because it was hoped to increase climbing performance and maximum ceiling this way. The aircraft was finished just shortly before the armistice and the company was thinking about a civil use...

The MBI book on the Heinkel He 162 presents several contenders in the "Volksjäger" competition, including the Blohm & Voss P 211. Attached below are three-view arrangements of the two proposals described above.

Hi, the Heinkel He.120 was a four engined long range flying boat project of 1938, http://www.flying-things.ch/air46.htm

After WW I Schütte-Lanz, led by Prof. Schütte tried to get into the civil airship business by designing Trans-Atlantic airships. SL 101 "Atlantic" would have had a volume of 95,000 cbm, whereas SL 102 "Panamerica" would have been considerble bigger with 205,000 cbm. Apart from the wartime...

Hi, here is a mystery giant tailless transport aircraft project from Germany,and may be the designer name mention on the drawing !,who can solve this ?.

Series of aircraft designs from Hugo Junkers from his patent filed in 1931. The main subject of the patent is more for the placement of engines in order to prevent pressure chamber rupture from blade fragments.

Hi, V.14 Binz was float plane of 1922. V.15 Sellin was flying boat with enclosed cabin for passengers. V.16 was an airliner biplane. V.17 was float plane and powered by Benz engine. V.23 Anklam was a low-wing monoplane powered by one Siemens Sh 4 engine,a high wing also planned. V.25...

Via Google Translate, Yahoo! Babelfish, and my re-writing and editing: In March 1930, foreign specialists were invited to provide technical assistance to the Soviet Union. Among these foreign specialists was a German engineer named Edward Grotte. Under his leadership, in the fall of 1931 at the...

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Hi, a surprise for all members about thos projects,only the Junkers J.1000 was known. 1- Junkers J.1000 giant. 2- Karl Grulich giant. 3- Rumpler giant. 4- R. Klamt giant. http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930090754_1993090754.pdf

I stumbled across this history in English of Hanns Klemm, the man and his company, and thought others might be interested. It includes a number of prototypes and one-off designs as well as referencing some unbuilt designs that I have never heard of before. History of Klemm Leichtflugzeugbau...

junkers homepage : http://hugojunkers.pytalhost.com/juf_home.htm#contents old site but still up , dedicated to Hugo Junkers, Anyone know if there are others , dedicated to Heinkel, Messerschmitt etc, etc ??

Thank you dears Richard and Apophenia, and here is an aircraft look like the Dornier RS IV,and the RS IV was first flown in 12/10/1918,and in Flightglobal in 1919 as a project. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%201256.html