This is a list of
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military aircraft organised alphabetically by manufacturer.
AEG
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Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft
Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG; ) was a German producer of electrical equipment founded in Berlin as the ''Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität'' in 1883 by Emil Rathenau. During the Second World War, AE ...
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AEG B.I
The AEG B.I was a German two-seat biplane unarmed reconnaissance aircraft produced in very small numbers in 1914. It formed the basis for the more successful B- and C-type aircraft from AEG.
Operators
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**''Luftstreitkräfte
The ''Deutsche ...
- reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.232]
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AEG B.II - reconnaissance
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AEG B.III
The AEG B.III was a German two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft produced in very small numbers from 1915. It was a further refinement of the B.I and B.II, with a fresh tailplane assembly, but was still only just adequate in performance and ...
- reconnaissance
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AEG C.I - reconnaissance
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AEG C.II - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.234]
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AEG C.III - reconnaissance
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AEG C.IV - reconnaissance
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AEG C.IVN
The AEG C.IV was a German two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft that entered service in 1916.
Design and development
The C.IV was based on the AEG C.II, but featured a larger wingspan and an additional forward-firing Spandau-type 7.92 mm ...
- night bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.235]
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AEG C.V
The AEG C.V was a prototype two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft
A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery ...
- reconnaissance
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AEG C.VI - reconnaissance
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AEG C.VII - reconnaissance
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AEG C.VIII
The AEG C.VIII was a prototype two-seat reconnaissance aircraft of World War I.Gray and Thetford 1962, p.238.
Two examples were built, based on the successful C.IV design, one of biplane configuration, the other a triplane
A triplane is a ...
- reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.237]
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AEG C.VIII Dr - reconnaissance triplane
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AEG D.I - fighter
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AEG DJ.I - armoured ground attack fighter
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AEG Dr.I
The AEG Dr.I was a triplane fighter of World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Bell ...
- triplane fighter
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AEG G.I/K.I - bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.241]
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AEG G.II
The AEG G.II was a German biplane bomber aircraft of World War I developed from the AEG G.I, with more powerful engines. The G.II was typically armed with three 7.92 mm (.312 in) machine guns and 200 kg (440 lb) of bomb
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- bomber
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AEG G.III
The AEG G.III was a German biplane bomber aircraft of World War I developed from the G.II. Like its predecessor, it was only built in small numbers and saw limited operational use, mainly far from the main fronts of the war.
Operators
;
*''Luft ...
- bomber
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AEG G.IV
The AEG G.IV was a biplane bomber aircraft used in World War I by Germany. It was developed from the AEG G.III, with refinements to power, bomb-load and dimensions. Coming into service in late 1916, it featured a bomb capacity twice as large as ...
- bomber
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AEG G.V
The AEG G.V was a biplane bomber aircraft of World War I, a further refinement of the AEG G.IV. The type saw limited production before the Armistice, and never entered operational service. It featured a 600 kg (1,320 lb) bombload.
Aft ...
- bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.244]
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AEG J.I
The AEG J.I was a German biplane ground attack aircraft of 1917, an armored and more powerful version of the AEG C.IV reconnaissance aircraft.
Design and development
The AEG J.I was a two-seat single-engined tractor biplane with a conventional ...
- ground attack aircraft
[Grey, 1970, pp.9-12]
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AEG J.II - ground attack aircraft
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AEG N.I
The AEG N.I was a German biplane night-bomber
A bomber is a military combat aircraft designed to attack ground and naval targets by dropping air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), launching torpedoes, or deploying air-launched cruise missi ...
- night bomber
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AEG PE
The AEG PE (''Panzer Einsitzer'' – "armoured one-seater") was a triplane ground-attack aircraft of World War I, one of the first aircraft designed from the outset for that role. The '' Idflieg'' rejected it on the grounds that its poor man ...
- armoured triplane ground attack fighter
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AEG R.I
The AEG R.I or Riesenflugzeug 1 (meaning "giant aircraft") was a four-engined biplane bomber aircraft of World War I manufactured by AEG
Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG; ) was a German producer of electrical equipment founde ...
- heavy bomber
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AEG R.II - heavy bomber project
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AEG Wagner Eule
The AEG Wagner Eule was a German reconnaissance aircraft built in 1914 by Allgemeine Electricitäts Gesellschaft.
Development
The Eule (English: ''Owl'') was one of a series of aircraft developed by the German electrical company AEG. Designed ...
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AEG Helicopter
The AEG helicopter was an unusual German aircraft project, intended to create a portable observation post in the form of a tethered helicopter. It achieved lift by use of two contra-rotating rotors powered by an electric motor that was supplied w ...
- helicopter observation platform, 1933
AGO
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AGO Flugzeugwerke''Aktien Gesellschaft Otto/ Aeroplanbau Gustav Otto & Alberti'')
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AGO C.I & C.IW - pod and boom pusher reconnaissance biplane
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AGO C.II & C.IIW - pod and boom pusher reconnaissance biplane
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AGO C.III - pod and boom pusher reconnaissance biplane
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AGO C.IV
The AGO C.IV was a First World War German biplane reconnaissance aircraft.
Development
A departure from the manufacturer's pod-and-boom designs, it featured a more conventional biplane layout whose only unusual feature was the tapered wings. L ...
- reconnaissance biplane
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AGO C.VII - reconnaissance biplane
[Gray, 1970, p.249]
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AGO C.VIII - reconnaissance biplane
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AGO DV.3 - fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.251]
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AGO S.I - prototype ground attack aircraft
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AGO Ao 192
The Ago Ao 192 ''Kurier'' was a small German twin-engined aircraft designed and built by AGO Flugzeugwerke in the 1930s. A small production run of six aircraft followed three prototypes, these being used as transports.
Development and design
Th ...
''Kurier'' - light liaison
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AGO Ao 225 - cancelled heavy fighter project
Akaflieg München
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Akaflieg Akaflieg is an abbreviation for ''Akademische Fliegergruppe'', groups of aeronautical engineering students from individual German Technical Universities, pre and postwar, who design aircraft, often gliders.
History
Otto Lilienthal published his bo ...
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München Mü-18
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
''Meßkrähe'' - research motor-glider for testing wing configurations from 1942-45
Albatros
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Albatros Flugzeugwerke GmbH
Albatros Flugzeugwerke GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturer best known for supplying the German airforces during World War I.
The company was based in Johannisthal, Berlin, where it was founded by Walter Huth and Otto Wiener on December 20, 1 ...
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Albatros B.I
The Albatros B.I, (post-war company designation L.1) was a German military reconnaissance aircraft designed in 1913 and which saw service during World War I.
Design and development
The B.I was a two-seat biplane of conventional configuration t ...
- reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.252]
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Albatros B.II
The Albatros B.II, (post-war company designation L.2) was an unarmed German two-seat reconnaissance biplane of the First World War.
Design and development
Designed by Robert Thelen based on his 1913 Albatros B.I, the B.II was the aircraft that ...
- reconnaissance
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Albatros B.III
The Albatros B.III, (post-war company designation L.5), was a German World War I reconnaissance biplane, built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke as the Albatros LDD.
Development and design
The Albatros B.III was the last of the company's unarmed reconn ...
- reconnaissance
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Albatros C.I
The Albatros C.I, (post-war company designations L.6 & L.7), was the first of the successful C-series of two-seat general-purpose biplanes built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke during World War I. Based on the unarmed Albatros B.II, the C.I reversed ...
- reconnaissance
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Albatros C.II - pusher reconnaissance
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Albatros C.III
The Albatros C.III was a German two-seat general-purpose biplane of World War I, built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke. The C.III was a refined version of the successful Albatros C.I and was eventually produced in greater numbers than any other C-typ ...
- reconnaissance
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Albatros C.IV - reconnaissance
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Albatros C.V
The Albatros C.V was a German military reconnaissance aircraft which saw service during World War I.
Design and development
The C.V was Albatros Flugzeugwerke's first revision of their B- and C-type reconnaissance aircraft since Ernst Heinkel l ...
- reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.256]
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Albatros C.VI - reconnaissance
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Albatros C.VII - reconnaissance
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Albatros C.VIII N - night bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.257]
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Albatros C.IX - reconnaissance
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Albatros C.X - reconnaissance
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Albatros C.XII - reconnaissance
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Albatros C.XIII - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.258]
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Albatros C.XIV - reconnaissance
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Albatros C.XV - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.259]
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Albatros D.I - fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.39-44]
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Albatros D.II
The Albatros D.II was a German fighter aircraft used during World War I. After a successful combat career in the early ''Jagdstaffeln'', it was gradually superseded by the Albatros D.III.
Design and development
Albatros designers Robert Thelen, ...
- fighter
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Albatros D.III
The Albatros D.III was a biplane fighter aircraft used by the Imperial German Army Air Service ('' Luftstreitkräfte'') during World War I. A modified licence model was built by Oeffag for the Austro-Hungarian Air Service ( ''Luftfahrtruppen''). ...
- fighter
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Albatros D.IV - fighter
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Albatros D.V
The Albatros D.V is a fighter aircraft built by the Albatros Flugzeugwerke and used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. The D.V was the final development of the Albatros D.I family and the last Albatros ...
& Va - fighter
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Albatros D.VI
Albatros D.VI was the designation given to a prototype single-seat twin-boom pusher biplane built in 1917 in Germany. It was armed with a fixed LMG 08/15 machine gun and a fixed Becker Type M2 cannon.
The aircraft's undercarriage was damaged ...
- fighter
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Albatros D.VII - fighter
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Albatros D.VIII - fighter
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Albatros D.IX - fighter
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Albatros D.X - fighter
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Albatros D.XI - fighter
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Albatros D.XII - fighter
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Albatros Dr.I - triplane fighter
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Albatros Dr.II - triplane fighter
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Albatros G.I
The Albatros G.I, (post-war company designation L.4), was a four-engined German biplane bomber of World War I.
Development
Founded on 27 April 1914 the Ostdeutsche Albatroswerke G.m.b.H. at Schneidemühl by
Otto Wiener and Dr. Walter Huth, the ...
- bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.268]
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Albatros G.II
The Albatros G.II, (Company post-war designation L.11), was a twin-engined German biplane bomber of World War I.
Development
Designed as a medium bomber, the G.II did not share any attributes with the larger G.I, being a single bay biplane with ...
- bomber
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Albatros G.III
The Albatros G.III (company L.21), was a German bomber aircraft development of World War I. It was a large, single-bay biplane of unequal span and unstaggered wings. Power was provided by two Benz Bz.IVa pusher engines installed in nacelles car ...
- bomber
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Albatros H.1 - high altitude record aircraft modified from SSW D.IV fighter
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Albatros J.I - ground attack
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Albatros J.II - ground attack
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Albatros L 3 - single seat reconnaissance
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Albatros L 9 - single seat reconnaissance
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Albatros L.65 - reconnaissance fighter biplane built in Lithuania
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Albatros L.68 - trainer
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Albatros L.69 - trainer
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Albatros L.70 - reconnaissance
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Albatros L.74 - trainer
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Albatros L.75 - trainer
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Albatros L.76 - reconnaissance
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Albatros L.77v - reconnaissance
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Albatros L.78 - reconnaissance
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Albatros L.79 - aerobatic/trainer
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Albatros L.81 - experimental aircraft to test the
Elektron metal structure
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Albatros L.82 - trainer
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Albatros L.84 - fighter biplane, 1931
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Albatros L.101/Al 101 - sportsplane/trainer, 1930
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Albatros L.102/Al 102 - sportsplane/trainer, 1931
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Albatros L.103/Al 103 - sportsplane/trainer, 1932
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Albatros N.I - night bomber variant of Albatros C.VII
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Albatros W.1 - reconnaissance floatplane
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Albatros W.2 - reconnaissance floatplane
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Albatros W.3 - torpedo bomber floatplane
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Albatros W.4 - floatplane fighter
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Albatros W.5 - torpedo bomber floatplane
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Albatros W.8
The Albatros W.8 was a German biplane Fighter aircraft, fighter seaplane, floatplane that saw service during First World War. It patrolled the seas around 1918. The fuselage of the aircraft was made of wood, similar to most aircraft designs of t ...
- floatplane fighter
Alter
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Ludwig Alter Werke'')
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Alter Type AI - fighter
Arado
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Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH'')
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Arado Ar 64
The Arado Ar 64 was a single-seat biplane fighter, developed in the late 1920s. It was among the first fighters produced when Germany abandoned the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles and began rearming.
Design and development
The Ar 6 ...
- fighter biplane
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Arado Ar 65
The Arado Ar 65 was the single-seat biplane fighter successor to the Ar 64. Both looked very similar. The only major difference was the use of a 12-cylinder inline engine versus the Ar 64's radial. The wingspan was also increased.
The Ar 65 ...
- fighter/trainer, re-engined Ar 64
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Arado Ar 66
The Arado Ar 66 was a German single-engined, two-seat training biplane, developed in 1933. It was also used for night ground-attack missions on the Eastern Front. It was engineer Walter Rethel's last design in collaboration with Arado, before ...
- trainer/night fighter
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Arado Ar 67 - prototype fighter biplane
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Arado Ar 68
The Arado Ar 68 was a German single-seat biplane fighter developed in the mid-1930s. It was among the first fighters produced when Germany abandoned the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles and began rearming.
Design and development
Designe ...
- fighter biplane
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Arado Ar 69 - prototype trainer, 1933
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Arado Ar 76 - fighter/trainer
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Arado Ar 80
The Arado Ar 80 was a pre- World War II fighter aircraft, designed by Arado Flugzeugwerke to compete for the ''Luftwaffe''s first major fighter contract. The Ar 80 was uninspiring in terms of performance and also suffered a number of failures. T ...
- fighter prototype
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Arado Ar 81 - prototype two-seat biplane, 1936
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Arado Ar 95
The Arado Ar 95 was a single-engine Aerial reconnaissance, reconnaissance and patrol biplane designed and built by the Germany, German firm Arado Flugzeugwerke in the late 1930s. Ordered by Chile and Turkey, a number were taken over by the ''Krie ...
- patrol seaplane
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Arado Ar 96
The Arado Ar 96 was a German single-engine, low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction, produced by Arado Flugzeugwerke. It was the '' Luftwaffe''s standard advanced trainer during World War II.
Design and development
Designed by Walter B ...
- trainer
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Arado Ar 195
The Arado Ar 195 was a single-engine prototype carrier-based torpedo bomber, built by the German firm Arado for service on the , during World War II.
Design and development
A derivative of the Ar 95, fitted with an arrestor hook and catapu ...
- lost to Fi-167 for aircraft carrier, floatplane
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Arado Ar 196
The Arado Ar 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance low-wing monoplane aircraft built by the German firm of Arado starting in 1936. The next year it was selected as the winner of a design contest and became the standard aircraft of the ''Kriegsmarin ...
- ship-borne reconnaissance floatplane
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Arado Ar 197
The Arado Ar 197 was a German World War II-era biplane, designed for naval operations for the never-completed German aircraft carrier . Only a few prototypes were built; the project was abandoned in favour of the Messerschmitt Bf 109T and Me 15 ...
- naval fighter derived from Ar 68
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Arado Ar 198
The Arado Ar 198 was a prototype reconnaissance aircraft, developed by Arado Flugzeugwerke, with backing from the Luftwaffe, who initially preferred it over the Blohm & Voss BV 141 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 189. However, when flight tests were car ...
- reconnaissance
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Arado Ar 199
The Arado Ar 199 was a floatplane aircraft, built by Arado Flugzeugwerke. It was a low-wing monoplane, designed in 1938 to be launched from a catapult and operated over water. The enclosed cockpit had two side-by-side seats for instructor and st ...
- seaplane trainer
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Arado Ar 231
The Arado Ar 231 was a lightweight floatplane, developed during World War II in Germany as a scout plane for submarines by Arado. The need to be stored inside the submarine necessitated compromises in design that made this single-seat seaplane ...
- folding-wing U-boat reconnaissance prototype
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Arado Ar 232
The Arado Ar 232 ''Tausendfüßler'' (German: "Millipede"), sometimes also called ''Tatzelwurm'', was a cargo aircraft, designed and built in small numbers by the German firm Arado Flugzeugwerke during World War II. The design introduced, or br ...
''Tausenfüßler'' - transport
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Arado Ar 233
The Arado Ar 233 was a 1940s German design for a civil twin-engined amphibian flying boat, developed by Dewoitine in France under the control of Arado Flugzeugwerke.Bridgeman 1988, p. 156
Design and development
The Ar 233 was a twin-engined flyi ...
- seaplane concept, 1940
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Arado Ar 234
The Arado Ar 234 ''Blitz'' (English: lightning) is a jet-powered bomber designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. It was the world's first operational turbojet-powered bomber, seeing service during the latter half of the ...
''Blitz'' - jet bomber
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Arado Ar 240
The Arado Ar 240 was a German twin-engine, multi-role heavy fighter aircraft, developed for the '' Luftwaffe'' during World War II by Arado Flugzeugwerke. Its first flight was in 1940, but problems with the design hampered development, and it r ...
- heavy fighter
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Arado Ar 396
The Arado Ar 96 was a German single-engine, low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction, produced by Arado Flugzeugwerke. It was the ''Luftwaffe''s standard advanced trainer during World War II.
Design and development
Designed by Walter Bl ...
- trainer
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Arado Ar 440
The Arado Ar 240 was a German twin-engine, multi-role heavy fighter aircraft, developed for the '' Luftwaffe'' during World War II by Arado Flugzeugwerke. Its first flight was in 1940, but problems with the design hampered development, and it r ...
- heavy fighter + attack
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Arado Ar 532
The Arado Ar 232 ''Tausendfüßler'' ( German: "Millipede"), sometimes also called '' Tatzelwurm'', was a cargo aircraft, designed and built in small numbers by the German firm Arado Flugzeugwerke during World War II. The design introduced, or b ...
- cancelled transport
Argus
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Argus Motoren GmbH
''Argus Motoren'' was a German manufacturing firm known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the Argus As 014 pulsejet for the V-1 flying bomb.
History
Started in Berlin in 1906 as a subsidiary of Henri Jeannin's automobile business ...
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Argus As 292
The Argus As 292 was originally developed in 1939 as a small, remote-controlled unmanned anti-aircraft target drone. A short-range reconnaissance version was also developed. The success of the project led to the Argus Fernfeuer UAV proposal.
De ...
- see DFS Mo 12
Aviatik
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Automobil und Aviatik AG'')
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Aviatik B.I
The Aviatik B.I is a German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed and built by the Automobil und Aviatik AG company, who until then had produced copies of French designs.
Design and development
The first of indigenous Aviatik biplanes, desig ...
- reconnaissance
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Aviatik B.II ''Note:'' Not to be confused with the Austro-Hungarian Aviatik B.II series 32, 32.7 and 34 which were different aircraft.
The Aviatik B.II was a reconnaissance aircraft built in Germany during World War I.
Design and development
The (German) Av ...
- reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.280]
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Aviatik C.I
The Aviatik C.I was an observation aircraft which came into service during World War I in April 1915. It was a development of the Aviatik B.I and B.II models, being one of first aircraft of the new German C class of armed biplanes. In the C.I t ...
- reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, pp.59-63]
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Aviatik C.II - reconnaissance
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Aviatik C.III - reconnaissance
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Aviatik C.V
The Aviatik C.V was an experimental reconnaissance biplane with a distinctive gull like upper wing. Not to be confused with the DFW C.V which was licence built by Aviatik
Automobil und Aviatik AG was a German aircraft manufacturer during World W ...
- reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.281]
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Aviatik C.VI - reconnaissance
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Aviatik C.VII - reconnaissance
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Aviatik C.VIII - reconnaissance
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Aviatik C.IX - reconnaissance
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Aviatik D.I
The Halberstadt D.II was a biplane fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by German aircraft company Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke.
It was adopted by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Army Air Service) and served through the period ...
- fighter (Halberstadt D.II)
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Aviatik D.II - fighter
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Aviatik D.III - fighter
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Aviatik D.IV - fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.286]
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Aviatik D.V - fighter
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Aviatik D.VI - fighter
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Aviatik D.VII - fighter
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Aviatik Dr.I - triplane fighter
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Aviatik G.I - bomber
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Aviatik G.III - bomber
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Aviatik R.III
Automobil und Aviatik AG was a German aircraft manufacturer during World War I. The company was established at Mülhausen (today in France) in 1909 and soon became one of the country's leading producers of aircraft. It relocated to Freiburg in ...
- bomber
Bachem
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Bachem-Werke'')
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Bachem Ba 349 Natter[Nowarra, 1993]
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Ba BP 20 ''Manned Flak Rocket'' - early Ba-349s, some with landing gear for flight testing
Baumgärtl
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Paul Baumgärtl'')
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Baumgärtl Heliofly I -
backpack helicopter
A backpack helicopter is a helicopter motor and rotor and controls assembly that can be strapped to a person's back, so they can walk about on the ground wearing it, and can use it to fly. It uses a harness like a parachute harness and should h ...
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Baumgärtl Heliofly III/57 - backpack helicopter
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Baumgärtl Heliofly III/59 - one-man
helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attribu ...
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Baumgärtl PB-60 - experimental single-seat rotor kite
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Baumgärtl PB-63 - single-seat helicopter
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Baumgärtl PB-64 - single-seat helicopter
Akaflieg Berlin
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Flugtechnische Fachgruppe'')
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Berlin B 9 - prone pilot research aircraft
BFW
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Bayerische Flugzeugwerke'')
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BFW CL.I - light reconnaissance/close support
[Gray, 1970. pp.288-290]
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BFW CL.II - light reconnaissance/close support
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BFW CL.III - light reconnaissance/close support
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BFW Monoplane 1918
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BFW N.I - night bomber
Blohm & Voss
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Blohm & Voss
Blohm+Voss (B+V), also written historically as Blohm & Voss, Blohm und Voß etc., is a German shipbuilding and engineering company. Founded in Hamburg in 1877 to specialise in steel-hulled ships, its most famous product was the World War II battl ...
and
Hamburger Flugzeugbau
''Hamburger Flugzeugbau'' (HFB) was an aircraft manufacturer, located primarily in the Finkenwerder quarter of Hamburg, Germany. Established in 1933 as an offshoot of Blohm & Voss shipbuilders, it later became an operating division within its par ...
'')
(For WWII projects with no RLM designation see:
List of German aircraft projects, 1939-1945
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
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* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
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Blohm & Voss BV 40
The Blohm & Voss BV 40 was a German glider fighter designed to attack Allied bomber formations during the time of the bombing raids over Nazi Germany.
Design
The BV 40 was the smallest glider that could accommodate an armoured cockpit and two ...
- glider interceptor
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Blohm & Voss BV 138
The Blohm & Voss BV 138 ''Seedrache'' (Sea Dragon), but nicknamed ''Der Fliegende Holzschuh'' ("flying clog",Nowarra 1997, original German title of the Schiffer book. from the side-view shape of its fuselage, as well as a play on the title of th ...
- flying-boat, was designated Ha 138
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Blohm & Voss Ha 139
The Blohm & Voss Ha 139 was a German all-metal inverted gull wing floatplane. With its four engines it was at the time one of the largest float-equipped seaplanes that had been built. The inboard engines were mounted at the joint between the in ...
- transatlantic airmail floatplane, one modified for reconnaissance and minesweeping
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Blohm & Voss Ha 140
The Blohm & Voss Ha 140 was a German multi-purpose seaplane first flown in 1937. It was intended for use as a torpedo bomber or long-range reconnaissance aircraft but did not enter production.
Design and development
The Ha 140 was developed to ...
- torpedo bomber flyingboat prototype
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Blohm & Voss BV 141
The Blohm & Voss BV 141 was a World War II German tactical reconnaissance aircraft, notable for its uncommon structural asymmetry. Although the Blohm & Voss BV 141 performed well, it was never ordered into full-scale production, for reasons t ...
- asymmetric reconnaissance prototypes
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Blohm & Voss BV 142
The Blohm & Voss Ha 142 was a German four-engined long-distance monoplane, developed to meet a ''Luft Hansa'' requirement for its transatlantic airmail service. The first of several prototypes flew on 11 October 1938 and they saw some service in ...
- reconnaissance/transport
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Blohm & Voss BV 143 - glide bomb prototype
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Blohm & Voss BV 144 - transport
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Blohm & Voss BV 155
The Blohm & Voss BV 155 was a German high-altitude interceptor aircraft intended to be used by the Luftwaffe against raids by USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses. Work started on the design as the Messerschmitt Me 155 in 1942, but the project wen ...
- high-altitude interceptor, was Me 155
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Blohm & Voss BV 222
The Blohm & Voss BV 222 ''Wiking'' (Pronounced "Veeking") was a large, six-engined German flying boat of World War II. Originally designed as a commercial transport, it was the largest German seaplane to attain production status during the war. ...
''Wiking'' - transport flying-boat
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Blohm & Voss BV 238
The Blohm & Voss BV 238 was a German flying boat, built during World War II. It was the heaviest aircraft ever built when it first flew in 1944, and was the largest aircraft produced by any of the Axis powers during World War II.
History
Develop ...
- flying-boat prototype
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Blohm & Voss BV 246 ''Hagelkorn'' - glide bomb, "Radieschen" anti-radar version
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Blohm & Voss BV L.10 ''Friedensengel'' - torpedo glider
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Blohm & Voss BV L.11 ''Schneewittchen'' - torpedo glider
Bücker
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Bücker Flugzeugbau
Bücker-Flugzeugbau GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in 1932. It was most notable for Its highly regarded sports planes which went on to be used as trainers by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
History
The company was founded b ...
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Bücker Bü 131 ''Jungmann'' - trainer
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Bücker Bü 133 ''Jungmeister'' - trainer
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Bücker Bü 134 - trainer
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Bücker Bü 180 ''Student'' - trainer
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Bücker Bü 181 ''Bestmann'' - trainer
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Bücker Bü 182 ''Kornett'' - trainer
Caspar
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Caspar-Werke The Caspar-Werke was a German aircraft manufacturer of the early 20th century. It was founded in 1911 by Karl Caspar under the name Zentrale für Aviatik in Fuhlsbüttel. In its early years, the firm built Etrich and Rumpler types under licence, an ...
'')
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Caspar D.I - twin-engine single-seat fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.314]
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Caspar U.1
The Caspar U.1 (sometimes known as the Caspar-Heinkel U.1) was a 1920s German patrol seaplane designed by Ernst Heinkel and built by Caspar-Werke. The U.1 was designed to fit into a cylindrical container to allow it to be carried, then launched fr ...
- submarine aircraft
Daimler
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Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft Werke'')
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Daimler CL.I - light reconnaissance/close support
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Daimler D.II - fighter
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Daimler G.I/R.I - heavy bomber
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Daimler G.II/R.II - heavy bomber
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Daimler L6/D.I - fighter
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Daimler L8
The Daimler CL.I was a prototype two-seat fighter built in Germany during World War I.
Design and development
The CL.I was built by the Daimler Motorengesellschaft Werke with the internal designation L8. It first flew in 1917 but did not enter ...
- fighter
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Daimler L9
Daimler is a German surname. It may refer to:
People
* Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), German inventor, industrialist and namesake of a series of automobile companies
* Adolf Daimler (1871–1913), engineer and son of Gottlieb Daimler
* Paul Da ...
- fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.316]
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Daimler L11
The Daimler L11 was a German single-seat, parasol-wing, monoplane fighter built during the First World War for the Imperial German Air Service (). A single prototype was built in 1918, but the war ended before it could be accepted for service ...
- parasol fighter
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Daimler L14
The Daimler L14 was a two-seat, high-wing, monoplane fighter built in 1919. It was built as a two-person, aerodynamically improved version of the Daimler L11 aircraft. It was powered by the Daimler D.IIIb water-cooled V-8 engine and was armed w ...
- parasol fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.317]
DFL
(''Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luftfahrt - Research Institute in Braunschweig'')
*
LT 9.2 ''Frosch'' - torpedo glider
DFS
(''
Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug
The ''Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug'' (), or DFS , was formed in 1933 to centralise all gliding activity in Germany, under the directorship of Professor Walter Georgii. It was formed by the nationalisation of the Rhön-Rossitten G ...
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DFS See Adler - seaplane research aircraft
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DFS Mo 6 - target glider prototypes, 1936
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DFS Mo 12 - target drone re-designated Argus As-292, first photo reconnaissance RPV
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DFS 39
Alexander Lippisch's Delta IV was a continuation of his work on delta wing designs pioneered in his Delta I, Delta II and Delta III aircraft.
Design and development
The project began with an order from Gerhard Fieseler for a design that his ...
- Lippisch-designed tail-less research aircraft
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DFS 40
__NOTOC__
The DFS 40 (originally developed as the Delta V) was a tail-less research aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch in 1937 as a follow-on to his Delta IV aircraft. In construction, the DFS was closer to a flying wing than its predecesso ...
- Lippisch-designed tail-less research aircraft
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DFS 108-49 ''Granau Baby'' - 1932 glider
* DFS 108-?? ''Kranich'' - 1935 glider
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DFS 108-68 ''Weihe'' - 1938 glider
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DFS 108-70 ''Olympia'' - planned 1940 Olympics glider
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DFS 194
The DFS 194 was a rocket-powered aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch at the '' Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug'' (DFS - "German Institute for Sailplane Flight").
Design and development
The DFS 194 was based on the Alexander Lippis ...
- rocket-powered research aircraft, forerunner of Me 163
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DFS 228
The DFS 228 was a rocket-powered, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft designed by the '' Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug'' (DFS - "German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight") during World War II. By the end of the war, the aircr ...
- rocket-powered reconnaissance prototype
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DFS 230
The DFS 230 was a German transport glider operated by the Luftwaffe in World War II. It was developed in 1933 by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - "German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight") with Hans Jacobs as the he ...
- transport glider
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DFS 331 - transport glider prototype
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DFS 332
The DFS 332 was an experimental aircraft, built by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS).
Development
It was designed to evaluate new wing profiles in flight. For this purpose, the DFS 332 was given twin fuselages, of a long and sl ...
- wing section research
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DFS 346
The DFS 346 (''Samolyot 346'') was a German rocket-powered swept-wing aircraft which began development during World War II in Germany. It was designed by Felix Kracht at the ''Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug'' (DFS), the "German Ins ...
- supersonic research, reached Mach 1 in USSR
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DFS 464 - project rocket carrier aircraft for DFS 360
DFW
(''
Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke
Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke, usually known as DFW, was a German aircraft manufacturer of the early twentieth century. It was established by Bernhard Meyer and Erich Thiele at Lindenthal in 1910, and initially produced Farman designs under licence, la ...
'')
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DFW Mars __NOTOC__
The DFW Mars was an early German military utility aircraft built in 1913 and was the first original design manufactured by DFW. The aircraft was produced in both monoplane and biplane versions, which shared a common fuselage and empenn ...
- reconnaissance
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DFW B.I
The DFW B.I (factory designation MD 14), was one of the earliest German aircraft to see service during World War I, and one of the numerous "B-class" unarmed, two-seat observation biplanes of the German military in 1914, but with a distinctive ...
- reconnaissance
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DFW B.II - reconnaissance
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DFW C.I - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.319]
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DFW C.II - reconnaissance
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DFW C.IV
The DFW C.IV, DFW C.V, DFW C.VI, and DFW F37 were a family of German reconnaissance aircraft first used in 1916 in World War I. They were conventionally configured biplanes with unequal-span unstaggered wings and seating for the pilot and observer ...
- reconnaissance
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DFW C.V
The DFW C.IV, DFW C.V, DFW C.VI, and DFW F37 were a family of German reconnaissance aircraft first used in 1916 in World War I. They were conventionally configured biplanes with unequal-span unstaggered wings and seating for the pilot and observer ...
- reconnaissance
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DFW C.VI - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.321]
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DFW D.I - fighter
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DFW Dr.I - triplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.324]
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DFW D.II - fighter
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DFW F 34 - fighter
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DFW F 37 - reconnaissance
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DFW R.I __NOTOC__
The DFW R.I, (company designation DFW T26), was a prototype German bomber aircraft of World War I.
Development
Developed as a private venture by DFW, it was a large biplane of conventional configuration with four engines mounted insi ...
- heavy bomber
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DFW R.II - heavy bomber
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DFW R.III __NOTOC__
The DFW R.III was a German bomber aircraft designed during World War I, but which had not yet been built when the end of the war led to the project's cancellation. Conceptually similar to DFW's preceding R.I and R.II designs, the R.I ...
- cancelled heavy bomber
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DFW T.28 Floh - fighter prototype
Dornier
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Dornier Flugzeugwerke GmbH'')
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Dornier Do C - bomber
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Dornier Do D - torpedo bomber for Yugoslavia
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Dornier Do H - fighter
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Dornier Do M - heavy bomber
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Dornier Do N - bomber for Japan
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Dornier Do P - heavy bomber
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Dornier Do 10
The Dornier Do 10, originally designated Dornier Do C4, was the name given by the ''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'' (RLM) of a pre- World War II German aircraft.
It was a two-seat parasol-wing monoplane, intended to be used as a fighter. Two protot ...
/Do C1 - fighter prototype, 1931
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Dornier Do 11/Do F - medium bomber, 1931
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Dornier Do 12
The Dornier Do 12 ''Libelle'' III ("Dragonfly III") was the third of a line of small German flying boats of the 1930s. It started with the Dornier A Libelle I and the Dornier A Libelle II, though the Do 12 was not a continuation, but an entir ...
''Libelle'' - seaplane
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Dornier Do 13 - medium bomber, 1933
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Dornier Do 14 __NOTOC__
The Dornier Do 14 was a prototype seaplane, developed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke with backing from the Luftwaffe for experimental propulsion studies. The aircraft was similar to the Dornier Do 12
The Dornier Do 12 ''Libelle'' III ("Dr ...
- seaplane prototype
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Dornier Do 16 ''Wal'' - reconnaissance flying-boat
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Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17 is a twin-engined light bomber produced by Dornier Flugzeugwerke for the German Luftwaffe during World War II. Designed in the early 1930s as a '' Schnellbomber'' ("fast bomber") intended to be fast enough to outrun opposing a ...
- bomber/reconnaissance/night-fighter
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Dornier Do 18
The Dornier Do 18 was a development of the Do 16 flying boat. It was developed for the ''Luftwaffe'', but ''Luft Hansa'' received five aircraft and used these for tests between the Azores and the North American continent in 1936 and on their ma ...
- bomber/reconnaissance flying-boat, 1935
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Dornier Do 19 ''Uralbomber'' - four engine heavy bomber prototype
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Dornier Do 22
The Dornier Do 22 was a German seaplane, developed in the 1930s. Despite good performance, it was built only in small numbers and entirely for the export market. The type was operated in the Second World War by Finland, Greece and Yugoslavia.
D ...
- torpedo bomber + reconnaissance flying-boat
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Dornier Do 23
The Dornier Do 23 was a German medium bomber of the 1930s.
Design and development
The earlier Do 11 had exhibited several problems, so two initiatives were launched to address those shortcomings. The first resulted in the Do 13. The second effo ...
- heavy bomber
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Dornier Do 24
The Dornier Do 24 is a 1930s German three-engine flying boat designed by the Dornier Flugzeugwerke for maritime patrol and search and rescue. A total of 279 were built among several factories from 1937 to 1945.
Design and development
The Dorni ...
- flying boat
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Dornier Do 26
The Dornier Do 26 was an all-metal gull-winged flying boat produced before and during World War II by ''Dornier Flugzeugwerke'' of Germany. It was operated by a crew of four and was intended to carry a payload of 500 kg (1,100 lb) o ...
- flying boat transport
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Dornier Do 214
The Dornier Do 214 was a proposed large long-range flying boat, developed by Dornier in World War II.
Development
Originally designed as the Do P.93 for passenger transatlantic service from Lisbon to New York, the Do 214 was redesigned as t ...
- transport flying-boat prototype
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Dornier Do 215 - bomber/night-fighter
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Dornier Do 217
The Dornier Do 217 was a bomber used by the German ''Luftwaffe'' during World War II as a more powerful development of the Dornier Do 17, known as the ''Fliegender Bleistift'' (German: "flying pencil"). Designed in 1937 and 1938 as a heavy bombe ...
- bomber/night-fighter
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Dornier Do 288 - unofficial cover designation for captured B-17s used by KG 200.
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Dornier Do 317 - heavy bomber
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Dornier Do 335
The Dornier Do 335 ''Pfeil'' ("Arrow") was a heavy fighter built by Dornier for Germany during World War II. The two-seater trainer version was called ''Ameisenbär'' ("anteater"). The ''Pfeil''s performance was predicted to be better than oth ...
''Pfeil'' - twin-engine fighter-bomber
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Dornier Do 417 - twin-boom project
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Dornier Do 435 - Do 335 variant with longer wings
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Dornier Do 635
The Dornier Do 335 ''Pfeil'' ("Arrow") was a heavy fighter built by Dornier Flugzeugwerke, Dornier for Germany during World War II. The two-seater trainer version was called ''Ameisenbär'' ("anteater"). The ''Pfeil''s performance was predicted t ...
- Do 335 variant with twin fuselage
EMW
(''
Elektro Mechanische Werke'')
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EMW A-4B piloted V-2 missile project
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EMW A-6 piloted V-2 missile project with aux. ramjet, origin of the X-15 rocketplane
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EMW A-9/A-10 piloted A-9/A-10 ICBM project
Euler
(''
Euler-Werke
August Euler (20 November 1868 – 1 July 1957) was a pioneer German aviator, aircraft constructor and the holder of the first German pilot's license, issued in 1909. After the First World War, he became German Secretary of State for Air, un ...
'')
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Euler B.I - reconnaissance
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Euler B.II - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.327]
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Euler B.III
The LVG B.I was a 1910s German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed by Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft for the ''Luftstreitkräfte''.
Development
LVG had been involved in the operation of dirigibles before it started design, in 1912, of the comp ...
- reconnaissance
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Euler C - reconnaissance pusher
[Gray, 1970, p.328]
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Euler D.I - fighter, copy of Nieuport
[Gray, 1970, p.329]
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Euler D.II
The Euler D.II was a German single-seat fighter, the successor to the earlier Euler D.I. The D.II was essentially a re-engined Euler D.I, the air-frame being virtually unchanged and the power plant being a 100 hp Oberusel U I 9-cylinder rota ...
- fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.330]
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Euler D
Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...
- fighter (possibly D.III)
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Euler Dr.I - triplane fighter
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Euler Dr.2 - triplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.331]
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Euler Dr.3 - triplane fighter
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Euler Dr.4 - triplane trainer
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Euler Pusher Einsitzer - fighter
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Euler Quadruplane - fighter
Fieseler
(''
Gerhard Fieseler Werke GmbH
The Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) in Kassel was a German aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s. The company is remembered mostly for its military aircraft built for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
History
The firm was founded on ...
'')
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Fieseler F-2/Fi 2 acrobatic sportsplane, 1932
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Fieseler F-5/Fi 5 acrobatic sportsplane/trainer, 1933
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Fieseler Fi 98 The Fieseler Fi 98 was a prototype ground-attack aircraft produced by German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler as a rival to the Henschel Hs 123.
Design and development
Fieseler developed the model in response to the Reich Air Ministry specificati ...
- biplane fighter, 1936
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Fieseler Fi 99
The Fieseler Fi 99 Jungtiger ( en, Young Tiger) was a German sports aircraft prototype, produced by Fieseler company. The aircraft was a low-wing two-seat aircraft with an enclosed cabin. It was powered by a Hirth HM 506A engine, producing .
Sp ...
''Jungtiger'' - light utility aircraft, 1938
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Fieseler Fi 103
The V-1 flying bomb (german: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry () designation was Fi 103. It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug and in Germany as ...
/V-1 - flying bomb
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Fieseler Fi 103R Series - Reichenberg manned V-1 suicide craft
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Fieseler Fi 156
The Fieseler Fi 156 ''Storch'' (, "stork") was a German liaison aircraft built by Fieseler before and during World War II. Production continued in other countries into the 1950s for the private market. It was notable for its excellent short fie ...
''Storch'' - STOL liaison aircraft
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Fieseler Fi 158
The Fieseler Fi 158 was a civilian research aircraft designed and built in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, ...
- research aircraft
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Fieseler Fi 166
__NOTOC__
In the early 1940s, Erich Bachem, Fieseler's Aircraft's technical manager, developed two designs for a rocket-launched fighter that could reach high altitudes quicker than conventional fighters.
Design One
Design one involved a strai ...
- jet aircraft project
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Fieseler Fi 167 - ship-borne torpedo bomber/reconnaissance biplane
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Fieseler Fi 256
The Fieseler Fi 156 ''Storch'' (, "stork") was a German liaison aircraft built by Fieseler before and during World War II. Production continued in other countries into the 1950s for the private market. It was notable for its excellent short fiel ...
- development of Fi 156, two prototypes
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Fieseler Fi-333
The Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) in Kassel was a German aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s. The company is remembered mostly for its military aircraft built for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
History
The firm was founded on ...
- transport concept
Flettner
(''
Flettner Flugzeugbau GmbH'' and ''Anton Flettner G.m.b.H.'')
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Flettner Gigant
The Flettner Gigant was an experimental helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and t ...
- helicopter, two huge rotors, 1933
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Flettner Fl 184 - auto-gyro, 1933
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Flettner Fl 185 - helicopter
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Flettner Fl 265 - based on Fl 185 but with intermeshing rotors
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Flettner Fl 282
The Flettner Fl 282 ''Kolibri'' ("Hummingbird") is a single-seat intermeshing rotor helicopter, or ''synchropter'', produced by Anton Flettner of Germany. According to Yves Le Bec, the Flettner Fl 282 was the world's first series production hel ...
''Kolibri'' - naval reconnaissance helicopter
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Flettner Fl 336 - large transport helicopter project
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Flettner Fl 339 - flying platform project
Focke-Achgelis
(''
Focke-Achgelis & Co. GmbH'')
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Focke Achgelis Fa 223 ''Drache'' - transport helicopter (prototype
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Focke Achgelis Fa 225 - towed assault helo-glider prototype
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Focke Achgelis Fa 266 ''Hornisse'' - helicopter prototype
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Focke Achgelis Fa 269 - tilt-wing pursuit helicopter project
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Focke Achgelis Fa 283 - jet helicopter project
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Focke Achgelis Fa 284 - heavy-lift helicopter project
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Focke Achgelis Fa 330
The Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 ''Bachstelze'' ( en, Wagtail) was a type of rotary-wing kite, known as a rotor kite. They were towed behind German U-boats during World War II to allow a lookout to see further.
Development
Because of their low pr ...
''Bachstelze'' - towed autogyro prototype
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Focke Achgelis Fa 336 - scout helicopter prototype, 1944, manufactured in France postwar
Focke-Wulf
(''
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH'')
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Focke-Wulf Fw 42 - bomber project, 1929
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Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz
The Focke-Wulf Fw 44 ''Stieglitz'' ("Goldfinch") is a 1930s German two-seat biplane. An early design by Kurt Tank, it was produced by the Focke-Wulf company as a pilot training and sports flying aircraft. It was also eventually built under lice ...
- trainer
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Focke-Wulf Fw 56
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG () was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. It is one of the p ...
''Stosser'' - trainer
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Focke-Wulf Fw 57
The Focke-Wulf Fw 57 was a prototype German heavy fighter and fighter-bomber. Prototypes were built in 1936 but never entered production.
Design and development
In 1934, the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) declared a requirement for a ''Kampfzerstörer ...
- heavy fighter/bomber prototype
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Focke-Wulf Fw 58
The Focke-Wulf Fw 58 ''Weihe'' ( Harrier) was a German aircraft, built to fill a request by the ''Luftwaffe'' for a multi-role aircraft, to be used as an advanced trainer for pilots, gunners and radio operators.
Design and development
The Fw ...
''Weihe'' - transport/trainer
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Focke-Wulf Fw 61
The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 is often considered the first practical, functional helicopter, first flown in 1936. It was also known as the Fa 61, as Focke began a new company—Focke-Achgelis—in 1937.
Design and development
Professor Henrich Foc ...
- helicopter prototype
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Focke-Wulf Fw 62
The Focke-Wulf Fw 62 was a reconnaissance floatplane, designed and built by Focke-Wulf for use by Nazi Germany's '' Kriegsmarine''. Only four were built.
Design and development
In 1936 the RLM, the German ministry of aviation, formulated a ...
- ship-borne reconnaissance seaplane
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Focke-Wulf Ta 152
The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 is a World War II German high-altitude fighter- interceptor designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf.
The Ta 152 was a development of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft. It was intended to be made in at least three ver ...
- Fw 190 variant
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Focke-Wulf Ta 154
The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 ''Moskito'' was a fast twin-engined German night fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf during late World War II. Only a few were produced, proving to have less impressive performance than the pro ...
''Moskito'' - night-fighter
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Focke-Wulf Fw 159
The Focke-Wulf Fw 159 was an experimental German fighter of the 1930s, designed by Kurt Tank which never reached production, as it was considered inferior to the He 112 and Bf 109. It was a heavier variant of the Focke-Wulf Fw 56, with several ...
- fighter prototype
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Focke-Wulf Ta 183
The Focke-Wulf Ta 183 ''Huckebein'' was a design for a jet-powered fighter aircraft intended as the successor to the Messerschmitt Me 262 and other day fighters in Luftwaffe service during World War II. It had been developed only to the exten ...
''Huckebein'' - jet fighter prototype
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Focke-Wulf Fw 186 - autogiro reconnaissance prototype
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Focke-Wulf Fw 187
The Focke-Wulf Fw 187 ''Falke'' ("Falcon") was a German aircraft developed in the late 1930s. It was conceived by Kurt Tank as a twin-engine, high-performance fighter, but the ''Luftwaffe'' saw no role for the design, perceiving it as intermediat ...
''Falke'' - heavy fighter
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Focke-Wulf Fw 189
The Focke-Wulf Fw 189 ''Uhu'' ("Eagle Owl") is a German twin-engine, twin-boom, three-seat tactical reconnaissance and army cooperation aircraft. It first flew in 1938 (Fw 189 V1), entered service in 1940 and was produced until mid-1944.
In ad ...
''Uhu'' - reconnaissance
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Focke-Wulf Fw 190
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed ''Würger'' (" Shrike") is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Along with its well-known counterpart, ...
''Würger'' - fighter
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Focke-Wulf Fw 191
The Focke-Wulf Fw 191 was a prototype German bomber of World War II, as the Focke-Wulf firm's entry for the Bomber B advanced medium bomber design competition. Two versions were intended to be produced, a twin-engine version using the Junkers Ju ...
- medium bomber prototype
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Focke-Wulf Fw 200
The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 ''Condor'', also known as ''Kurier'' to the Allies (English: Courier), was a German all-metal four-engined monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner. A Japanese request for a long-range maritime ...
''Condor'' - transport/maritime patrol-bomber
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Focke-Wulf Super Lorin
The Focke-Wulf Super Lorin was a proposed German jet interceptor project. Designed towards the end of World War II by engineer Heinz von Halen, the project remained only a factory design exercise, and never received an RLM airframe number befo ...
- ramjet-powered fighter project
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Focke-Wulf Fw 259 ''Frontjäger'' - fighter project
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Focke-Wulf Fw Ta 283 - ramjet fighter project
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Focke-Wulf Fw 300 - proposed long-range version of Fw 200
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Focke-Wulf Ta 400 - long-range bomber project
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Focke-Wulf P.VI ''Flitzer'' - twin-boom fighter, mock-up built
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Focke-Wulf Volksjäger
The Focke-Wulf ''Volksjäger'', meaning "People's Fighter" in German, was a German emergency fighter project for the ''Luftwaffe''. It was designed by Focke-Wulf industries towards the end of World War II as part of the defense effort against the ...
- rocket-powered emergency fighter project
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Focke-Wulf Fw Triebflügel - thrust-wing ramjet
coleopter project
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Focke-Wulf Rochen - circular wing project
Fokker
(''
Fokker Aviatik GmbH
Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names. It was founded in 1912 in Berlin, Germany, and became famous for its fighter aircraft in World War I. In 1919 ...
'')
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Fokker A.I __NOTOC__
The Fokker A.I (Fokker designation M.8) was an "A-class" unarmed two-seat monoplane observation aircraft of the 1914-15 era early in World War I, powered as the earlier Fokker M.5 was, by a 58.8 kW (80 PS) Oberursel U.0 seve ...
(M.8) - reconnaissance monoplane
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Fokker A.II
The Fokker M.5 was an unarmed single-seat monoplane aircraft designed and built by Anthony Fokker in 1913. It served as a light reconnaissance aircraft with the German army at the outbreak of World War I and was the basis for the first successf ...
(M.5L) - reconnaissance monoplane
[Gray, 1970, p.334]
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Fokker A.III (M.5K) - reconnaissance monoplane, armed version designated E.I
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Fokker B.I (1915) (M.10E) - reconnaissance biplane for Austria-Hungary
[Gray, 1970, p.339]
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Fokker B.II (1916) (M.10Z) - reconnaissance biplane for Austria-Hungary
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Fokker B.III (M.17) - reconnaissance/fighter for Austria-Hungary
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Fokker C.I - reconnaissance, first 70 examples built in Germany and shipped to Netherlands.
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Fokker D.I
The Fokker D.I (company designation M.18) was a development of the D.II fighter. The D.I was also flown in Austro-Hungarian service as a fighter trainer aircraft under the designation B.III. Confusing the matter further, both the D.II and D.I ar ...
(M.18Z) - fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.87-90]
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Fokker D.II __NOTOC__
The Fokker D.II was a German fighter biplane of World War I. It was a single-seat fighter aircraft developed before the Fokker D.I. It was based on the M.17 prototype, with single-bay unstaggered wings and a larger fuselage and short ...
(M.17Z) - fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.91-94]
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Fokker D.III
The Fokker D.III (Fokker designation M.19) was a German single-seat fighter aircraft of World War I. It saw limited frontline service before being withdrawn from combat in December 1916.
Design and development
The M.19 began as an effort to imp ...
(M.20Z) - fighter
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Fokker D.IV
The Fokker D.IV was a German fighter biplane of World War I, a development of the D.I.
Development
The Fokker D.IV had a more powerful Mercedes D.III engine, and the first Fokker front-line design to use ailerons in place of wing warping from ...
- fighter
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Fokker D.V
The Fokker D.V (Fokker designation M.22) was a German 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 arran ...
(M.22) - fighter
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Fokker D.VI
The Fokker D.VI was a German fighter aircraft built in limited numbers at the end of World War I. The D.VI served in the German and Austro-Hungarian air services.
Design and development
In late 1917, Fokker-Flugzeugwerke built two small biplan ...
- fighter
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Fokker D.VII - fighter
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Fokker D.VIII - fighter
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Fokker F.I/Dr.I - triplane fighter
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Fokker E.I
The Fokker E.I was the first fighter aircraft to enter service with the Fliegertruppe of the Deutsches Heer in World War I. Its arrival at the front in mid-1915 marked the start of a period known as the " Fokker Scourge" during which the E.I a ...
- monoplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.82-86]
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Fokker E.II
The Fokker E.II was the second variant of the German Fokker Eindecker single-seat monoplane fighter aircraft of World War I. The E.II was essentially a Fokker E.I with the 75 kW (100 hp) Oberursel U.I 9-cylinder rotary engine, a close ...
- monoplane fighter
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Fokker E.III - monoplane fighter
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Fokker E.IV - monoplane fighter
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Fokker M.6
The Fokker M.6 was a two-seat experimental design resembling the later E.I fighter. It had a 60 kW (80 hp) Oberursel engine and first flew in June 1914.
M.6
1910s German experimental aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Single-engined t ...
- reconnaissance parasol
[Gray, 1970, p.336]
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Fokker M.7
The Fokker M.7 was a German observation aircraft of World War I, used by the armed forces of both Germany and Austro-Hungary.
Design and development
Twenty aircraft, powered by Oberursel U.0 rotary engines, were built, some of which were ...
- reconnaissance sesquiplane
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Fokker K.I
The Fokker K.I (for ''Kampfflugzeug''/"combat aircraft"), also known as the M.9, was a German experimental aircraft.
First flown in 1915, the M.9 had two M.7 fuselages and tails, without engines, mounted on the lower wing. To this was added a ...
(M.9) - battleplane
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Fokker M.16
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Fokker V.1 - prototype fighter
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Fokker V.2 - prototype fighter
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Fokker V.3 - prototype for Dr.I fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.349]
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Fokker V.4
The Fokker V.4 was a prototype German fighter aircraft of World War I. Inspired by the successful Sopwith Triplane, Anthony Fokker chose to create a triplane fighter. Reinhold Platz was responsible for the design. The V.4 looked very much like th ...
- prototype for Dr.I fighter
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Fokker V.5 - prototype for Dr.I fighter
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Fokker V.6 - prototype triplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.350]
*
Fokker V.7 - prototype triplane fighter
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Fokker V.8 - prototype 5 wing fighter
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Fokker V.9 - prototype biplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.352]
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Fokker V.10 - prototype triplane fighter
*
Fokker V.11 - prototype for D.VII fighter
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Fokker V.12 - prototype for D.VI fighter
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Fokker V.13 - prototype for D.VI fighter
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Fokker V.14 - prototype for D.VI fighter
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Fokker V.16 - prototype for D.VI fighter
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Fokker V.17 - prototype monoplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.355]
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Fokker V.18 - prototype for D.VII fighter
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Fokker V.20 - prototype monoplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.356]
*
Fokker V.21 - prototype for D.VII fighter
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Fokker V.22 - prototype for D.VII fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.357]
*
Fokker V.23 - prototype monoplane fighter
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Fokker V.24 - prototype for D.VII fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.358]
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Fokker V.25 - prototype monoplane fighter
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Fokker V.26 - prototype for D.VIII monoplane fighter
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Fokker V.27 - prototype monoplane fighter
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Fokker V.28 - prototype for D.VIII monoplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.361]
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Fokker V.29 - prototype for parasol monoplane version of D.VII fighter
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Fokker V.30 - prototype for glider version of D.VIII monoplane fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.362]
*
Fokker V.31 - D.VII fighter modified to tow V.30
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Fokker V.33 - prototype D.VI fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.363]
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Fokker V.34
The Fokker D.VII was a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. Germany produced around 3,300 D.VII aircraft in the second half of 1918. In service with the ''Luftstreitkräfte'', the D.VII qui ...
- prototype D.VII fighter with BMW engine
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Fokker V.35 - prototype D.VII fighter variant
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Fokker V.36 - prototype D.VII fighter variant
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Fokker V.37 - armoured variant of V.27 monoplane
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Fokker V.38 - prototype for C.I
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Fokker W.4 - reconnaissance floatplane derived from M.7
Friedrichshafen
(''
Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH
Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturing company.
Overview
The company was founded in 1912 in Friedrichshafen, Germany by Theodor Kober who had previously worked for the Zeppelin company. The town, which is located by ...
'')
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Friedrichshafen C.I - reconnaissance
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Friedrichshafen D.I - fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.383]
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Friedrichshafen D.II
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Friedrichshafen D type Quadruplane - fighter
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Friedrichshafen FF.1
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Friedrichshafen FF.2
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Friedrichshafen FF.4
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Friedrichshafen FF.7
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Friedrichshafen FF.8
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Friedrichshafen FF.11
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Friedrichshafen FF.17
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Friedrichshafen FF.19
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Friedrichshafen FF.21
The Friedrichshafen FF.21 was a German multirole flying boat of the 1910s produced by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen.
Specifications
References
Bibliography
*
Further reading
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Friedrichshafen aircraft
Floatplanes
{{aero-1910s-stu ...
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Friedrichshafen FF.29 - reconnaissance floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.30
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Friedrichshafen FF.31 - pusher reconnaissance floatplane
[Gray, 1970, p.368]
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Friedrichshafen FF.33
Friedrichshafen FF.33 was a German single-engined reconnaissance three-bay wing structure biplane, using twin floats, designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1914 for the ''Marine-Fliegerabteilung'' aviation forces of the ''Kaiserliche Mar ...
- reconnaissance floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.34
The Friedrichshafen FF.34 was a German biplane floatplane of the 1910s produced by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen.
Development and design
The FF.34 was similar to the earlier FF.31 as it was a pusher configuration twin-boom floatplane. It had a ce ...
- reconnaissance pusher floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.35
The Friedrichshafen FF.35 was a German three-seat floatplane torpedo bomber built during World War I by '' Friedrichshafen Flugzeugbau'' built for the Imperial German Navy's () Naval Air Service (). Only one prototype was constructed in 1916 and ...
- torpedo bomber floatplane
[Gray, 1970, p.369]
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Friedrichshafen FF.37 - reconnaissance pusher
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Friedrichshafen FF.39 - reconnaissance floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.40
The Friedrichshafen FF.40 was a German three-seat floatplane of the 1910s produced by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen.
Development and design
The FF.40 was designed to meet a German Imperial Navy requirement for a three-seat patrol seaplane. It was ...
- reconnaissance floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.41
The Friedrichshafen FF.41a was a large, German-built, three-seat, twin-engine floatplane reconnaissance aircraft designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1917.
The aircraft was mainly used as a reconnaissance aircraft, but also as a bomber and ...
- torpedo bomber floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.43 - floatplane fighter
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Friedrichshafen FF.44 - reconnaissance floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.45
The Friedrichshafen G.III (factory designation FF.45) was a heavy bomber designed and manufactured by ''Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen''. They were used by the Luftstreitkräfte, German Imperial Air Service during World War I for tactical bombing, t ...
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Friedrichshafen FF.46
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Friedrichshafen FF.48 - floatplane fighter
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Friedrichshafen FF.49 - reconnaissance/bomber floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.53
The Friedrichshafen FF.53 was a German torpedo-carrying biplane floatplane of the 1910s produced by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen.
Development and design
The FF.53 was a twin-engined biplane floatplane, designed to carry a torpedo and powered by t ...
- torpedo bomber
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Friedrichshafen FF.54
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Friedrichshafen FF.59
Friedrichshafen FF.33 was a German single-engined reconnaissance three-bay wing structure biplane, using twin Floatplane, floats, designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1914 for the ''Marine-Fliegerabteilung'' aviation forces of the Imperial ...
- reconnaissance floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.60
The Friedrichshafen FF.60 was a German experimental floatplane produced by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen.
Development and design
The FF.60 was an experimental large triplane floatplane, powered by four Mercedes D.III engines. Its first flight too ...
- long range patrol triplane floatplane
[Gray, 1970, p.379]
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Friedrichshafen FF.61
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Friedrichshafen FF.62 - heavy bomber, may have been G.V
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Friedrichshafen FF.63 - floatplane monoplane
[Gray, 1970, p.380]
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Friedrichshafen FF.64
The Friedrichshafen FF.64 was a German two-seat biplane floatplane of the 1910s produced by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen.
Development and design
The FF.64 was a two-seat biplane powered by a Mercedes D.III inline piston engine. The aircraft had ...
- reconnaissance floatplane
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Friedrichshafen FF.66
Friedrichshafen ( or ; Low Alemannic: ''Hafe'' or ''Fridrichshafe'') is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance (the ''Bodensee'') in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria. It is the district capital (''Kre ...
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Friedrichshafen FF.67
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Friedrichshafen FF.71
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Friedrichshafen G.I - heavy bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.381]
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Friedrichshafen G.II - heavy bomber
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Friedrichshafen G.III
The Friedrichshafen G.III (factory designation FF.45) was a heavy bomber designed and manufactured by ''Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen''. They were used by the German Imperial Air Service during World War I for tactical and limited strategic bomb ...
& IIIa - heavy bomber - heavy bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.382]
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Friedrichshafen G.IV
The Friedrichshafen G.IV and G.V (factory designations FF.61 and FF.55) respectively were heavy bombers that were designed and manufactured in Germany during World War I by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen. The G.IV saw limited use by the ''Luftstre ...
- heavy bomber
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Friedrichshafen G.V
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Friedrichshafen N.I - night bomber
Geest
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1916 single-seat fighter
Geratwerk-Stargard
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Geratwerk-Stargard Lt.50 - glide bomb project
Germania
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Germania type B - reconnaissance, 1915
[Gray, 1970, p.387]
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Germania type C/K.D.D. - fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.388]
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Germania C.I - reconnaissance
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Germania C.II - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.389]
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Germania C.IV - trainer
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Germania JM
Germania ( ; ), also called Magna Germania (English: ''Great Germania''), Germania Libera (English: ''Free Germania''), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman province of the same name, was a large historical region in north-c ...
- unarmed single-seater, 1916
Gödecker
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Gödecker B type - trainer
Göppingen
(''
Sportsflugzeuge Göppingen'')
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Göppingen Gö 1 ''Wolf I'' - sailplane, 1935
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Göppingen Gö 3 ''Minimoa'' - sailplane, 1936
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Göppingen Gö 4 - sailplane
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Göppingen Gö 5
Göppingen ( Swabian: ''Geppenge'' or ''Gebbenga'') is a town in southern Germany, part of the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the district Göppingen. Göppingen is home to the toy company Märklin, and it is the ...
- sailplane, 1937 ''(may be RLM #5, unlikely though)''
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Goppingen Go 8 - development aircraft for Do 214
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Göppingen Gö 9 - development aircraft for pusher propeller used on Do 335 ''Pfeil''
Gotha
(''
Gothaer Waggonfabrik
''Gothaer Waggonfabrik'' (''Gotha'', GWF) was a German manufacturer of rolling stock established in the late nineteenth century at Gotha. During the two world wars, the company expanded into aircraft building.
World War I
In World War I, Got ...
'')
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Gotha LD.1/2/6/7 - training/reconnaissance/bomber biplanes
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Gotha LD.5 - single seat reconnaissance
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Gotha LE.3 ''Taube'' - monoplane
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Gotha WD.1 - reconnaissance floatplane
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Gotha WD.2/5/9/12/13/15 - reconnaissance floatplanes
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Gotha WD.3 - pusher reconnaissance floatplane
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Gotha WD.7 - twin-engined seaplane trainer/reconnaissance biplane
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Gotha WD.8 - single-engined seaplane trainer/reconnaissance biplane
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Gotha WD.11
The Gotha WD.11 (for ''Wasser Doppeldecker'' - "Water Biplane") was a torpedo bomber seaplane developed in Germany during World War I. When the general configuration of the Gotha WD.7 proved promising, Gotha set to work designing a much larger ...
- torpedo bomber floatplane
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Gotha WD.14/20/22 - torpedo bomber floatplanes
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Gotha WD.27 - large patrol floatplane
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Gotha G.I
The Gotha G.I was a heavy bomber used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I.
Design and development
In mid-1914, Oskar Ursinus, the founder and editor of the German flying magazine ''Flugsport'', began des ...
/UWD - heavy bomber
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Gotha G.II - heavy bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.411]
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Gotha G.III
The Gotha G.III was a twin-engine pusher biplane heavy bomber used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. It succeeded the G.II in production and differed primarily in powerplant and in armament details ...
- heavy bomber
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Gotha G.IV
The Gotha G.IV was a heavy bomber used by the (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. It was the first mass-produced large airplane.
Development
Experience with the earlier G.III showed that the rear gunner could not efficientl ...
- heavy bomber
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Gotha G.V - heavy bomber
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Gotha G.VI
The Gotha G.VI was an experimental bomber aircraft designed and built in Germany during World War I.
Development
The Gotha G.VI was an experimental bomber developed from the Gotha G.V. Using the standard wing cellule from the Gotha G.V the G.V ...
- asymmetric heavy bomber
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Gotha GL.VII - high speed reconnaissance bomber
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Gotha GL.VIII - high speed bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.416]
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Gotha G.IX
The Gotha G.VIII, GL.VIII, G.IX, and G.X were a family of bomber aircraft produced in Germany during the final months of World War I. Based on the Gotha G.VII, they were intended as high-speed tactical bombers featuring advanced streamlining f ...
- high speed bomber built by LVG
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Gotha G.X - high speed reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.417]
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Gotha Go 145
The Gotha Go 145 is a German World War II-era biplane of wood and fabric construction used by ''Luftwaffe'' training units. Although obsolete by the start of World War II, the Go 145 remained in operational service until the end of the War in Eu ...
- trainer
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Gotha Go 146 - transport, 1935
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Gotha Go 147 - STOL reconnaissance prototype
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Gotha Go 229
The Horten H.IX, RLM aircraft designation system, RLM designation Ho 229 (or Gotha Go 229 for extensive re-design work done by Gotha to prepare the aircraft for mass production) was a German prototype fighter aircraft, fighter/bomber initially d ...
- jet flying wing fighter
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Gotha Go 242
The Gotha Go 242 was a transport glider used by the '' Luftwaffe'' during World War II. It was an upgrade over the DFS 230 in both cargo/troop capacity and flight characteristics. It saw limited combat action. There were multiple variants.
De ...
- transport glider
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Gotha Go 244
The Gotha Go 244 was a transport aircraft used by the ''Luftwaffe'' during World War II.
Development
The Go 244 was the powered version of the Gotha Go 242 military glider transport. Studies for powered versions of the Go 242 began early in the ...
- transport
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Gotha Go 345
The Gotha Go 345 was a prototype German Military transport glider of the Second World War. A single example was tested in 1944. - assault glider
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Gotha Ka 430 __NOTOC__
The Gotha Ka 430 was a military transport glider, first built in 1944. The glider was designed by Albert Kalkert. Twelve had been produced by the end of World War II, but none of them was used operationally.
The glider could carry t ...
- transport glider
Halberstadt
(''
Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke GmbH'')
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Halberstadt type B - reconnaissance
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Halberstadt B.I - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.418]
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Halberstadt B.II - reconnaissance
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Halberstadt B.III
The Halberstadt B-types of the Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke were two-seat unarmed reconnaissance/training aircraft of the German Air Force in the First World War.
Development
In 1914, Halberstadt developed a biplane with the Oberursel U.0 ro ...
- reconnaissance
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Halberstadt C.I - reconnaissance
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Halberstadt C.III - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.419]
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Halberstadt C.V
The Halberstadt C.V was a German single-engined reconnaissance biplane of World War I, built by Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke. Derived from the Halberstadt C.III, with a more powerful supercharged 160 kW (220 hp) Benz Bz.IVü engine ...
- reconnaissance
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Halberstadt C.VII - reconnaissance
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Halberstadt C.VIII - reconnaissance
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Halberstadt C.IX - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.421]
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Halberstadt CL.II
The Halberstadt CL.II was a German two-seat escort fighter/ground attack aircraft of World War I. It served in large numbers with the German ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Army Air Service) in 1917-18.
Development and design
Early in ...
- light reconnaissance/close support
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Halberstadt CL.IV
The Halberstadt CL.IV was a German ground attack aircraft of World War I.
Design and development
Karl Thies, chief designer of the Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke, G.m.b.H., designed the CL.IV as a replacement for the CL.II. As the CL.II had prov ...
- light reconnaissance/close support
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Halberstadt CLS.I - light reconnaissance/close support
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Halberstadt D.I - fighter
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Halberstadt D.II
The Halberstadt D.II was a biplane fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by German aircraft company Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke.
It was adopted by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Army Air Service) and served through the peri ...
- fighter
[Gray, 1970, pp.146-149]
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Halberstadt D.III
The Halberstadt D.II was a biplane fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by German aircraft company Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke.
It was adopted by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Army Air Service) and served through the perio ...
- fighter
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Halberstadt D.IV - fighter
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Halberstadt D.V - fighter
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Halberstadt G.I - heavy bomber
Hannover
(''
Hannoversche Waggonfabrik AG'')
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Hannover C.I - license-built Aviatik C.I
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Hannover CL.II
The Hannover CL.II was an escort fighter, produced in Germany during World War I, designed in response to a 1917 requirement by the '' Idflieg'' for such a machine to protect reconnaissance aircraft over enemy territory. It was a compact biplane o ...
- light reconnaissance/close support
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Hannover CL.III
The Hannover CL.III was a German military aircraft of World War I. It was a two-seat multi-role aircraft, primarily used as a ground attack machine. Like the other Hannover "light-C-class", or "CL" designated aircraft designed by Hermann Dorner, ...
- light reconnaissance/close support
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Hannover CL.IV - light reconnaissance/close support
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Hannover CL.V - light reconnaissance/close support
Hannuschke
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Hannuschke monoplane - single seat scout, 1915
[Gray, 1970, p.428]
Hergt
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Hergt monoplane - fighter, 1918
Hansa-Brandenburg
(''
Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke'')
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Hansa-Brandenburg B.I
The Hansa-Brandenburg B.I was an unarmed military trainer and reconnaissance biplane of World War I, flown by the Austro-Hungarian Air Service. Early models were known internally to the Hansa-Brandenburg firm as the type D, while later models ...
- reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.302]
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Hansa-Brandenburg CC - flying boat fighter for Austrian Navy
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Hansa-Brandenburg D
The Hansa-Brandenburg B.I was an unarmed military trainer and reconnaissance biplane of World War I, flown by the Austro-Hungarian Air Service. Early models were known internally to the Hansa-Brandenburg firm as the type D, while later models w ...
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Hansa-Brandenburg FB - flying boat
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Hansa-Brandenburg FD
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Hansa-Brandenburg GDW - torpedo bomber floatplane
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Hansa-Brandenburg GNW - reconnaissance floatplane
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Hansa-Brandenburg GW - torpedo bomber floatplane
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Hansa-Brandenburg KW - reconnaissance floatplane
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Hansa-Brandenburg KDW
The Hansa-Brandenburg KDW was a German single-engine, single-seat, fighter floatplane of World War I. The KDW''Kampf Doppeldecker, Wasser'' (Fighter Biplane, Water)was adapted from the Hansa-Brandenburg D.I landplane to provide coastal defence ...
- floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg L.14 - fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.313]
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Hansa-Brandenburg L.16 - fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg LW - reconnaissance floatplane
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Hansa-Brandenburg NW - reconnaissance floatplane
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Hansa-Brandenburg W
The Hansa-Brandenburg W was a reconnaissance floatplane produced in Germany in 1914 to equip the Imperial German Navy. Similar in general layout to the Hansa-Brandenburg B.I landplane, the W was a conventional three-bay biplane with unstaggered w ...
- reconnaissance floatplane
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.11 - floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 - floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.13 - flying boat for Austria-Hungary
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.16 - floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.17 - floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.18 - flying boat fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.19
The Hansa-Brandenburg W.19 was a German fighter-reconnaissance aircraft of World War I. It was a single-engined two-seat biplane floatplane, and was a larger development of the successful W.12. It served with the '' Kaiserliche Marine'' (Impe ...
- reconnaissance floatplane
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.20 - flying boat fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.23
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.25
The Hansa-Brandenburg W.25 was a German floatplane fighter of the World War I era, designed and built by Hansa-Brandenburg.
Design and development
The W.25 was an improved version of the KDW with a modified biplane cellule with conventional int ...
- floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.26 - reconnaissance floatplane
[Gray, 1970, p.298]
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.27 - floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 - floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.32 - floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.33 - floatplane fighter
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.34
Heinkel
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Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke () was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight, with ...
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Heinkel He 37 - fighter biplane
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Heinkel He 38 - fighter biplane
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Heinkel He 43 - fighter biplane
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Heinkel He 45
The Heinkel He 45 was a light bomber produced in Germany in the early 1930s, one of the first aircraft adopted by the newly formed ''Luftwaffe''. Its appearance was that of a conventional biplane and included seating for pilot and gunner in tan ...
- bomber/trainer
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Heinkel He 46
The Heinkel He 46 was a German World War II-era monoplane designed in 1931 for the close reconnaissance and army co-operation roles. While it served with the '' Luftwaffe''s front-line units only briefly at the start of World War II, the He 46 s ...
- reconnaissance
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Heinkel He 49
The Heinkel He 49 was a German single-bay, single-seat biplane of mixed construction armed with two machine guns. Four variants were made, the He 49a, He 49b, He 49c and He 49d.
Variants
''Data from:
;HD 49: original Heinkel designation for th ...
- fighter biplane
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Heinkel He 50
The Heinkel He 50 was a German World War II-era dive bomber, originally designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Serving in ''Luftwaffe'' prewar dive-bombing units, the He 50 served until almost the end of World War II as a night harassment bomb ...
- reconnaissance/dive bomber biplane
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Heinkel He 51
The Heinkel He 51 was a German single-seat biplane which was produced in a number of different versions. It was initially developed as a fighter; a seaplane variant and a ground-attack version were also developed. It was a development of th ...
- fighter/close-support biplane
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Heinkel He 59
The Heinkel He 59 was a twin-engined German biplane designed in 1930, resulting from a requirement for a torpedo bomber and reconnaissance aircraft able to operate on wheeled landing gear or twin-floats.
Development
In 1930, Ernst Heinkel bega ...
- reconnaissance biplane floatplane
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Heinkel He 60
The Heinkel He 60 was a German single-engined biplane reconnaissance seaplane designed to be catapulted from ''Kriegsmarine'' (German navy) warships of the 1930s.
Development and design
The Heinkel He 60 was designed by Heinkel engineer Reinh ...
- ship-borne reconnaissance biplane floatplane
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Heinkel He 70
The Heinkel He 70 ''Blitz'' ("lightning") was a German mail plane and fast passenger monoplane aircraft of the 1930s designed by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, which was later used as a bomber and for aerial reconnaissance. It had a brief commercial car ...
''Blitz'' - transport, 1932
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Heinkel He 72 ''Kadett'' - trainer
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Heinkel He 74 - fighter/advanced trainer prototype
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Heinkel He 100
The Heinkel He 100 was a German pre-World War II fighter aircraft design from Heinkel. Although it proved to be one of the fastest fighter aircraft in the world at the time of its development, the design was not ordered into series production. ...
- fighter
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Heinkel He 111
The Heinkel He 111 is a German airliner and bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934. Through development, it was described as a " wolf in sheep's clothing". Due to restrictions placed on Germany after t ...
- bomber
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Heinkel He 111Z
The Heinkel He 111 is a German airliner and bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel, Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934. Through development, it was described as a "wolf in sheep's clothing". Due to restrictions placed on Germany ...
''Zwilling'' - 2 He 111s joined with 5th engine used for towing
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Heinkel He 112 - fighter
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Heinkel He 113
The Heinkel He 113 was a fictitious German fighter aircraft of World War II, invented as a propaganda and possibly disinformation exercise.
Development
In 1940, Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels publicised the fact that a new fighter ...
- propaganda designation for He 100
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Heinkel He 114
The Heinkel He 114 was a sesquiwing reconnaissance seaplane produced for the ''Kriegsmarine'' in the 1930s for use from warships. It replaced the company's He 60, but did not remain in service long before being replaced in turn by the Arado Ar ...
- reconnaissance seaplane
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Heinkel He 115
The Heinkel He 115 was a three-seat World War II ''Luftwaffe'' seaplane. It was used as a torpedo bomber and performed general seaplane duties, such as reconnaissance and minelaying. The aircraft was powered by two 960 PS (947 hp, 720&n ...
- general-purpose seaplane
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Heinkel He 116 - transport/reconnaissance
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Heinkel He 118 - dive bomber, two to Japan, testbed for turbojet HeS 3A in 1939
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Heinkel He 119
The Heinkel He 119 was an experimental single-propeller monoplane with two coupled engines, developed in Germany. A private venture by Heinkel to test radical ideas by the Günter brothers, the He 119 was originally intended to act as an unarme ...
- high speed recon bomber, record setter, two to Japan
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Heinkel He 162
The Heinkel He 162 ''Volksjäger'' (German language, German, "People's Fighter") was a German single-engine, jet-powered fighter aircraft fielded by the Luftwaffe in World War II. Developed under the Emergency Fighter Program, it was designed a ...
''Volksjäger'' - jet fighter
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Heinkel He 170
The Heinkel He 70 ''Blitz'' ("lightning") was a German mail plane and fast passenger monoplane aircraft of the 1930s designed by Heinkel, Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, which was later used as a bomber and for aerial reconnaissance. It had a brief comme ...
- reconnaissance/bomber, for Hungary
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Heinkel He 172 - trainer prototype
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Heinkel He 176 - rocket propelled experimental aircraft
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Heinkel He 177
The Heinkel He 177 ''Greif'' (Griffin) was a long-range heavy bomber flown by the ''Luftwaffe'' during World War II. The introduction of the He 177 to combat operations was significantly delayed, by both problems with the development of its ...
- heavy bomber
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Heinkel He 178
The Heinkel He 178 was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel. It was the world's first aircraft to fly using the thrust from a turbojet engine.
The He 178 was developed to test the jet propu ...
- jet-engined experimental aircraft
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Heinkel He 219
The Heinkel He 219 ''Uhu'' ("Eagle-Owl") is a night fighter that served with the German Luftwaffe in the later stages of World War II. A relatively sophisticated design, the He 219 possessed a variety of innovations, including Lichtenstein SN ...
- night-fighter
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Heinkel He 270 - reconnaissance/bomber prototype
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Heinkel He 274
The Heinkel He 274 was a German heavy bomber design developed during World War II, purpose-designed for high-altitude bombing with pressurized crew accommodation.
Due to the Allied advance through Northwest Europe, the prototypes were abando ...
- high-altitude bomber
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Heinkel He 277 - four-engined He-177, one modified for single "Superbomb" of unknown type
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Heinkel He 280 - jet fighter
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Heinkel He 343 - jet bomber project
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Heinkel P.1077 - rocket fighter, two prototypes 90% complete at defeat, further versions planned
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Heinkel Lerche
The Heinkel Lerche ( en, Lark) was the name of a set of project studies made by German aircraft designer Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a revolutionary VTOL fighter and ground-attack aircraft.
The ''Lerche'' was an early coleopter design. It would ...
- VTOL interceptor project
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Heinkel Wespe
The Heinkel Wespe ( en, Wasp) was a project study by the German company Heinkel for a tail-sitting, vertical take off and landing-interceptor aircraft. The aircraft did not have conventional wings, but instead featured a large rotor. Completed in ...
- VTOL interceptor project
Henschel
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Henschel & Son
Henschel & Son (german: Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehi ...
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Henschel Hs 117
The Henschel Hs 117 ''Schmetterling'' (German for ''Butterfly'') was a radio-guided German surface-to-air missile project developed during World War II. There was also an air-to-air version, the Hs 117H.
The operators used a telescopic sight and ...
- surface-to-air missile
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Henschel Hs 121
The Henschel Hs 121 was the first aircraft built by the German Henschel company. It was a high-wing monoplane with an inline engine, fixed undercarriage and single, open cockpit, designed as an advanced trainer. Only one aircraft was produced, i ...
- fighter/trainer prototype
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Henschel Hs 122
The Henschel Hs 122 was a German army cooperation/reconnaissance aircraft of the mid-1930s, radial-engined and with a parasol wing. Though only pre-production variants entered service, the Hs 122 led on to the Hs 126 which was produced in large ...
- army co-operation, 2nd prototype became Hs 125
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Henschel Hs 123
The Henschel Hs 123 was a single-seat biplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the German ''Luftwaffe'' during the Spanish Civil War and the early to midpoint of World War II. It proved to be robust, durable and effective e ...
- ground-attack biplane
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Henschel Hs 124
Henschel & Son (german: Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehi ...
- heavy fighter/bomber prototype
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Henschel Hs 125
The Henschel Hs 125 was a German advanced training aircraft prototype featuring a single engine and low wing, designed by Henschel & Son and tested by the Luftwaffe
The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German '' Weh ...
- fighter/trainer prototype
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Henschel Hs 126
The Henschel Hs 126 was a German two-seat reconnaissance and observation aircraft of World War II that was derived from the Henschel Hs 122. The pilot was seated in a protected cockpit under the parasol wing and the gunner in an open rear cockp ...
- reconnaissance
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Henschel Hs 127
The Henschel Hs 127 was a German bomber that was built as two prototypes, but cancelled without entering mass production.
In 1935, the RLM (''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'' - German Ministry of Aviation) published requests for a fast tactical bomb ...
- high speed bomber prototype
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Henschel Hs 129
The Henschel Hs 129 was a World War II ground-attack aircraft fielded by the German '' Luftwaffe''. The aircraft saw combat in Tunisia and on the Eastern Front.
A key requirement of the original specification was that the aircraft be powered ...
- ground-attack
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Henschel Hs 130
The Henschel Hs 130 was a German high-altitude reconnaissance and bomber aircraft developed in World War II. It suffered from various mechanical faults and was never used operationally, only existing as prototype airframes.
Development
Develo ...
- high altitude jet reconnaissance/bomber prototype
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Henschel Hs 132
Henschel's Hs 132 was a World War II dive bomber and interceptor aircraft of the German ''Luftwaffe'' that never saw service. The unorthodox design featured a top-mounted BMW 003 jet engine (identical in terms of make and position to the powerpla ...
- jet dive bomber prototype
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Henschel Hs 293
The Henschel Hs 293 was a World War II German radio-guided glide bomb. It is the first operational anti-shipping missile, first used unsuccessfully on 25 August 1943 and then with increasing success over the next year, ultimately damaging or si ...
- rocket propelled glide bomb
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Henschel Hs 294
The Henschel Hs 294 was a guided Anti-surface warfare, air-to-sea missile developed by Henschel & Son, Henschel Flugzeug-Werke AG in Nazi Germany, Germany during World War II.
Design
The Hs 294 was a further development of the Henschel Hs 293, b ...
- rocket propelled anti-shipping glide bomb
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Henschel Hs 295
Henschel & Son (german: Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicle ...
- rocket propelled torpedo glider
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Henschel Hs 296
Henschel & Son (german: Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicle ...
- rocket propelled torpedo glider
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Henschel Hs 297
The Henschel Hs 297 Föhn or 7.3 cm Raketen Sprenggranate was a small German surface-to-air rocket of the Second World War. The associated multiple rocket launcher was known as the 7.3 cm Föhn-Gerät.
Design
The Henschel Hs 297 Föhn (The Fo ...
- rocket propelled torpedo glider
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Henschel Hs 298 __NOTOC__
The Henschel Hs 298 was a 1940s German rocket-powered air-to-air missile designed by Professor Herbert Wagner of Henschel.
Design and development
The Hs 298 was designed specifically to attack Allied bomber aircraft and was the first ...
- air-to-air missile
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Henschel Hs 315 - missile project
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Henschel Hs GT 1200 - anti-shipping rocket assisted glide bomb
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Henschel Zitterrochen
Henschel & Son (german: Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicl ...
''Torpedofish'' - supersonic missile
Horten
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Horten brothers
Walter Horten (born 13 November 1913 in Bonn; died 9 December 1998 in Baden-Baden, Germany) and Reimar Horten (born 12 March 1915 in Bonn; died 14 March 1994 in Villa General Belgrano, Argentina), sometimes credited as the Horten Brothers, were ...
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Horten Parabola
is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...
- parabolic flying wing prototype
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Horten H.XIII
The Horten H.XIII was an experimental flying wing aircraft designed by the Horten brothers during World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. ...
- delta jet fighter project
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Horten H.XVIIIB
is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand a ...
''Amerika Bomber'' - project
Hütter
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Ulrich Hütter and Wolfgang Hütter'')
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Hütter Hü 136 - dive bomber project, 1938
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Hutter Hü Fernzerstorer - 1942 destroyer project
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Hütter Hü 211 - Improved He 219, 2 built in 1944, destroyed in bombing raid
Jeannin
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Fabrik und Jeannin Flugzeugbau'')
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Jeannin Taube - reconnaissance monoplane, 1914
[Gray, 1970, p.429]
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Jeannin biplane - reconnaissance biplane, 1915
Junkers
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Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG'')
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Junkers J 1
The Junkers J 1, nicknamed the ''Blechesel'' ("Tin Donkey" or "Sheet Metal Donkey"), was an experimental monoplane aircraft developed by Junkers & Co. It was the world's first all-metal aircraft.
Manufactured early on in the First World War, ...
- experimental monoplane
[Gray, 1970, p.430]
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Junkers J 2/E.I - monoplane fighter, 1916
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Junkers J 3
The Junkers J 3 was an all-metal single-seat experimental fighter aircraft.
Design and development
A major drawback of the previous J 1 and J 2 designs was the weight of their overall construction, which consisted of heavy iron sheets and pi ...
- abandoned development of J 2
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Junkers J 4/J.I - ground attack, 1917
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Junkers J 7
The Junkers D.I (factory designation J 9) was a monoplane fighter aircraft produced in Germany late in World War I, significant for becoming the first all-metal fighter to enter service. The prototype, a private venture by Junkers named the J ...
- fighter prototype, led to D.I
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Junkers J 8/CL.I - ground attack, 1917
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Junkers J 9/D.I - fighter, 1917
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Junkers J 11/CLS.I - seaplane two-seat fighter
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Junkers A 20
Junkers A 35 was a two-seater cantilever monoplane, used for postal, training and military purposes. The aircraft was designed in the 1920s by Junkers in Germany and manufactured at Dessau and by AB Flygindustri in Limhamn, Sweden and conversions ...
- fighter
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Junkers A 35
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Junkers K 39 - bomber prototype
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Junkers K 47
The Junkers K 47 was a two-seater fighter aircraft developed in Sweden by the Swedish subsidiary of the German firm Junkers during the late 1920s, a civil development of which was designated the A 48.
Design and development
Designed to meet a r ...
- dive bomber
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Junkers Ju W33 - transport, 1926
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Junkers Ju W34 - transport/reconnaissance, 1933
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Junkers Ju 52
The Junkers Ju 52/3m (nicknamed ''Tante Ju'' ("Aunt Ju") and ''Iron Annie'') is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers.
Development of the Ju 52 commenced during 1930, headed by German aero ...
- transport/bomber
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Junkers Ju 86 - bomber/reconnaissance
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Junkers Ju 87
The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from ''Sturzkampfflugzeug'', "dive bomber") was a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's ...
''Stuka'' - dive-bomber
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Junkers Ju 88
The Junkers Ju 88 is a German World War II ''Luftwaffe'' twin-engined multirole combat aircraft. Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works (JFM) designed the plane in the mid-1930s as a so-called '' Schnellbomber'' ("fast bomber") that would be too fast ...
- bomber/reconnaissance + night-fighter
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Junkers Ju 89 - heavy bomber prototype
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Junkers Ju 90
The Junkers Ju 90 was a 40-seat, four-engine airliner developed for and used by Deutsche Luft Hansa shortly before World War II. It was based on the rejected Ju 89 bomber. During the war, the ''Luftwaffe'' impressed them as military transports ...
- heavy bomber prototype
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Junkers Ju 187 - prototype incomplete before cancellation
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Junkers Ju 188
The Junkers Ju 188 was a German ''Luftwaffe'' high-performance medium bomber built during World War II, the planned follow-up to the Ju 88 with better performance and payload. It was produced only in limited numbers, due both to the presence of i ...
''Rächer'' - bomber
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Junkers Ju 248 - redesignated Me 263
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Junkers Ju 252 - transport
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Junkers Ju 287
The Junkers Ju 287 was an aerodynamic testbed built in Nazi Germany to develop the technology required for a multi-engine jet bomber. It was powered by four Junkers Jumo 004 engines, featured a novel forward-swept wing, and apart from the wing ...
- jet heavy bomber prototype
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Junkers Ju 288
The Junkers Ju 288, originally known within the Junkers firm as the EF 074, was a German bomber project designed during World War II, which only ever flew in prototype form. The first aircraft flew on 29 November 1940; 22 development aircraft ...
- bomber prototype
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Junkers Ju 290
The Junkers Ju 290 was a large German, four-engine long-range transport, heavy bomber and maritime patrol aircraft used by the Luftwaffe late in World War II that had been developed from an earlier airliner.
Design and development
The Junkers ...
- long-range bomber prototype
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Junkers Ju 322
The Junkers Ju 322 ''Mammut'' (German for mammoth) was a heavy transport military glider, resembling a giant flying wing, proposed for use by the ''Luftwaffe'' in World War II; only two prototypes were completed, a further 98 were scrapped before ...
''Mammut'' - assault glider
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Junkers Ju 352
The Junkers Ju 352 ''Herkules'' ("Hercules" in German) was a German World War II transport aircraft that was developed from the Junkers Ju 252.
Design and development
During the late spring of 1942, the Junkers-Dessau project office was instruc ...
''Herkules'' - transport
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Junkers Ju 388 ''Stortebeker'' - reconnaissance/night-fighter
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Junkers Ju 390
The Junkers Ju 390 was a German long-range derivative of the Junkers Ju 290 aircraft, intended to be used as a heavy transport aircraft, maritime patrol aircraft and long-range bomber. It was one of the aircraft designs submitted for the abortive ...
- long-range bomber
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Junkers Ju 488 - heavy bomber
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Junkers EF 61
The Junkers EF 61 was a German prototype twin-engined high-altitude bomber aircraft of the 1930s. Only two examples were built, but it provided valuable information on pressure cabins which aided the design of later pressurised aircraft.
Design ...
- high-altitude fighter/reconnaissance prototype
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Junkers EF 126
The Junkers EF 126 was an experimental fighter proposed by the German of 1944–1945, for a cheap and simple fighter powered by a pulsejet engine. No examples were built during the war, but the Soviet Union completed both unpowered and powered p ...
- pulsejet fighter completed in USSR in 1947
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Junkers EF 131 - Ju-287 derivative, completed in USSR in 1946
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Junkers EF 132
The EF 132 was a planned jet bomber, under development for the ''Luftwaffe'' during World War II. It was the last aircraft project development undertaken by Junkers during the war, and was the culmination of the Ju 287 design started in 1942.
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- advanced heavy bomber
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Junkers EF 140
The OKB-1 '140', (sometimes known as '001') was a jet bomber produced in the USSR from 1947.
Development
The '140' was a reconnaissance/bomber aircraft, derived from the OKB-1 EF 131 with Soviet turbojet engines. The initial version, a tactic ...
- bomber completed in the USSR postwar
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Junkers EF 150
The OKB-1 150 was a jet bomber designed and produced in the Soviet Union from 1948.
Development
At the end of World War II, many German engineers were 'seconded' by the Soviet government to continue their advanced research under direct supervi ...
- bomber completed in the USSR postwar
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Junkers EF 152
Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (JFM, earlier JCO or JKO in World War I, English: Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works) more commonly Junkers , was a major German aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer. It was founded there in Dessau, Germ ...
- bomber project, became East German
Baade 152
The Baade 152 also known as Dresden 152, VL-DDR 152 or simply 152, was a post-war airliner designed and manufactured by East German aircraft company VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden. The aircraft was named after German aeronautical engineer Brunolf Ba ...
airliner cancelled by Soviets
Klemm
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Klemm Leichtflugzeugbau GmbH'')
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Klemm Kl 25
Klemm L 25, later Klemm Kl 25 was a successful German light leisure, sports and training monoplane aircraft, developed in 1928. More than 600 aircraft were built, and manufacturing licenses were sold to the United Kingdom and the United State ...
- sportplane
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Klemm Kl 31 __NOTOC__
The Klemm Kl 31 was a touring aircraft, developed in Germany in the early 1930s. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with four seats in an enclosed cabin. The fixed, tailskid undercarriage had divided mainwheel units. T ...
- sportplane, 1931
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Klemm Kl 32 - sportplane, 1931
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Klemm Kl 33 - single-seat sportplane prototype, 1933
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Klemm Kl 35
The Klemm Kl 35 is a German sporting and training aeroplane developed as a successor to the Kl 25. A product of Klemm Leichtflugzeugbau Gmbh it shared the same single-engine, cantilever low-wing configuration as the earlier machine, the major ...
- sportplane/trainer, 1935
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Klemm Kl 35Z ''Zwilling'' - twin fuselage Kl 35 to test theory of Messerschmitt Bf 109
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Klemm Kl 36
The Klemm Kl 36 is a 1930s German four-seat cabin touring and competition monoplane. It was designed by Klemm and Friedrich Fechner and built by Klemm.
History Development
Following the success of the 3-seat touring plane Klemm Kl 32 in the E ...
- sportplane, 1934
Kondor
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Kondor Flugzeugwerke GmbH'')
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Kondor Taube - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.436]
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Kondor W.1 - two-seater
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Kondor W.2C - reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.437]
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Kondor B.I - trainer
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Kondor D.I - sesquiplane fighter
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Kondor D.II - biplane fighter
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Kondor D.6 - biplane fighter
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Kondor D.7 - sesquiplane fighter, 1917
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Kondor E.III & IIIa - monoplane fighter, 1918
KW (Danzig)
(''
Kaiserliche Werft Danzig
Kaiserliche Werft Danzig was a German shipbuilding company founded in 1852 as ''Königliche Werft Danzig'' and renamed ''Kaiserliche Werft'' after the proclamation of the German Empire in 1871. Together with Kaiserliche Werft Kiel and Kaiserlich ...
- German Navy Shipyard'')
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Kaiserliche Werft Danzig 404 - floatplane trainer
[Gray, 1970, p.443]
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Kaiserliche Werft Danzig 467 - floatplane trainer
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Kaiserliche Werft Danzig 1105 - floatplane trainer
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Kaiserliche Werft Danzig 1650 - reconnaissance floatplane
KW (Kiel)
(''
Kaiserliche Werft Kiel
Kaiserliche Werft Kiel ("Imperial shipyard Kiel") was a German shipbuilding company founded in 1867, first as Königliche Werft Kiel but renamed in 1871, with the proclamation of the German Empire. Together with Kaiserliche Werft Danzig ...
- German Navy Shipyard'')
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Kaiserliche Werft Kiel 463 - floatplane trainer
KW (Wilhelmshaven)
(''
Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven
Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven (Wilhelmshaven Imperial Shipyard) was a German shipbuilding company in Wilhelmshaven, founded in 1871 and closed in 1918. Together with Kaiserliche Werft Danzig and Kaiserliche Werft Kiel it was one of three ...
- German Navy Shipyard'')
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Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 401 - floatplane trainer
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Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 461 - floatplane trainer
[Gray, 1970, pp.443-444]
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Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 945 - floatplane fighter
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Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 947 - reconnaissance floatplane
Laufer
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Laufer VE-RO - jet helicopter project
LFG Roland
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Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft'')
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LFG Roland C.II
The LFG Roland C.II, usually known as the ''Walfisch'' (Whale), was an advanced German reconnaissance aircraft of World War I. It was manufactured by Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft G.m.b.H.
Characteristics
The C.II had much lower drag than compara ...
- reconnaissance
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LFG Roland C.III - reconnaissance
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LFG Roland C.V
The LFG Roland D.II was a German single-seat fighter of World War I. The type was manufactured by Luftfahrzeug Gesellschaft, and also by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke under license.
Design and development
The D.II used a plywood monocoque fuselage. Two ...
- reconnaissance
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LFG Roland C.VIII - reconnaissance
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LFG Roland D.I - fighter
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LFG Roland D.II
The LFG Roland D.II was a German single-seat fighter of World War I. The type was manufactured by Luftfahrzeug Gesellschaft, and also by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke under license.
Design and development
The D.II used a plywood monocoque fuselage. Two ...
& IIa - fighter
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LFG Roland D.III - fighter
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LFG Roland D.IV - triplane fighter
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LFG Roland D.V
The LFG Roland D.III was a fighter aircraft produced in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, 576
Design and development
The D.III was a further development of the D.I fighter.''World Aircraft Information Files'' File 900 Sheet 06 These mach ...
- fighter
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LFG Roland D.VI - fighter
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LFG Roland D.VII
The Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft (LFG) Roland D.VII was a German single seat, single engine biplane fighter aircraft built during World War I. Problems with its underdeveloped V-8 engine prevented its production.
Design and development
The D.VII ...
- fighter
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LFG Roland D.VIII - fighter
*
LFG Roland D.IX - fighter
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LFG Roland D.XIII
The Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft (LFG) Roland D.VII was a German single seat, single engine biplane fighter aircraft built during World War I. Problems with its underdeveloped V-8 engine prevented its production.
Design and development
The D.VII ...
- fighter
*
LFG Roland D.XIV - fighter
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LFG Roland D.XV
The LFG Roland D.XV was a World War I German single seat fighter aircraft, ordered as a test-bed for engine comparisons. It was distinguished from earlier Roland biplane designs by the elimination of flying wires. Two later aircraft, also cal ...
- fighter
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LFG Roland D.XVI - fighter
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LFG Roland D.XVII - monoplane fighter
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LFG Roland G.I - single engine heavy bomber
*
LFG Roland W - reconnaissance floatplane
[Gray, 1970, p.464]
*
LFG Roland WD - floatplane fighter
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LFG V 19 Straslund - submarine aircraft
Linke-Hofmann
(''Linke-Hofmann'')
*
Linke-Hofmann R.I - heavy bomber
*
Linke-Hofmann R.II - heavy bomber
Lippisch
(''
Alexander Lippisch
Alexander Martin Lippisch (November 2, 1894 – February 11, 1976) was a German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and a ...
'')
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Lp DM-1 - delta-wing glider prototype
*
Lp P.XIIIb - ramjet fighter project
*
Lp GB 3/L - glide bomb
LTG
(''
Luft Torpedo Gesellshaft Johannisthal
In chess, a flight square or escape square is a safe square to which a piece, especially a king, can move if it is threatened.
Providing one's piece with flight squares can prevent the opponent from winning material or delivering checkmate. For ...
'')
*
LTD SD 1 - fighter floatplane
Lübeck-Travemünde
(''
Flugzeugwerft Lübeck-Travemünde GmbH'')
*
Lübeck-Travemünde F.1 - floatplane reconnaissance
*
Lübeck-Travemünde F.2 - floatplane reconnaissance
[Gray, 1970, p.470]
* Lübeck-Travemünde F.4 - floatplane reconnaissance
* Lübeck-Travemünde 844 - single-seat seaplane
LVG
(''Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH'')
* LVG B.I - reconnaissance/trainer
[Gray, 1970, pp.169-172 & 472]
* LVG B.II - reconnaissance/trainer
* LVG B.III - trainer aircraft
* LVG C.I - reconnaissance, one example modified as torpedo bomber
* LVG C.II - reconnaissance
* LVG C.III - reconnaissance
* LVG C.IV - reconnaissance
* LVG C.V - reconnaissance
* LVG C.VI - reconnaissance
* LVG C.VII - reconnaissance
* LVG C.VIII - reconnaissance
* LVG C.IX - reconnaissance
* LVG D 10 - experimental fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.479]
* LVG D.II - fighter
* LVG D.III - fighter
* LVG D.IV - fighter
* LVG D.V - fighter
* LVG D.VI - fighter
* LVG E.I - armed reconnaissance monoplane, 1915
* LVG G.I - bomber aircraft
* LVG G.II - triplane bomber
* LVG G.III - Schütte-Lanz G.V triplane bomber built by LVG
Märkische
(''Märkische Flugzeueg-Werke'')
* Märkische D.I - fighter
Messerschmitt
(''Messerschmitt Aktiengesellschaft'')
* Messerschmitt Bf 108 ''Taifun'' - trainer/liaison
* Messerschmitt Bf 109 - fighter (also Me 109)
* Messerschmitt Bf 109Z ''Zwilling'' - two Me Bf 109Fs joined, prototype in 1943 but cancelled after damaged by bombs.
* Messerschmitt Bf 110 - heavy fighter/night-fighter
* Messerschmitt Bf 161 - reconnaissance prototypes, 1937
* Messerschmitt Bf 162 ''Jaguar'' - bomber prototype
* Messerschmitt Bf 163 STOL reconnaissance prototype, built by Weserflu
* Messerschmitt Me 163 ''Komet'' - rocket interceptor
* Messerschmitt Me 209 - speed-record aircraft
* Messerschmitt Me 209-II - fighter prototype unrelated to first Me 209
* Messerschmitt Me 210 - heavy fighter/reconnaissance
* Messerschmitt Me 261 ''Adolfine'' -long-range reconnaissance
* Messerschmitt Me 262 ''Schwalbe'' - jet fighter/bomber
* Messerschmitt Me 263 - rocket interceptor
* Messerschmitt Me 264 ''Amerika'' - long-range bomber prototype
* Messerschmitt Me 265 attack aircraft project
* Messerschmitt Me 271bz ''Blitz Zerstorer'' - ramjet fighter project
* Messerschmitt Me 290 - maritime patrol/bomber
* Messerschmitt Me 309 - fighter prototype
* Messerschmitt Me 321 ''Gigant'' - transport glider
* Messerschmitt Me 323 ''Gigant'' - powered transport
* Messerschmitt Me 328 - pulsejet parasite fighter
* Messerschmitt Me 329 - heavy fighter project
* Messerschmitt Me 362 - project 3 jet military airliner
* Messerschmitt Me 410 ''Hornisse'' - heavy fighter/reconnaissance
* Messerschmitt Me 509 - fighter project, improved Me-309
* Messerschmitt Me 565 ''Vulkan'' - jet torpedo bomber project
* Messerschmitt Me 600 ''Bussard'' - provisional designation for development of Sack A.S.7
* Messerschmitt Me 609 ''Nacht Wulf'' - heavy fighter/bomber project
* Messerschmitt Me P.1101 - jet interceptor prototype w/variable sweep wing- basis for Bell X-5
* Messerschmitt Me P.1112 - jet fighter project, mock-up under construction in 1945
Mistel Composites
*
DFS 230
The DFS 230 was a German transport glider operated by the Luftwaffe in World War II. It was developed in 1933 by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - "German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight") with Hans Jacobs as the he ...
and
Klemm Kl 35
The Klemm Kl 35 is a German sporting and training aeroplane developed as a successor to the Kl 25. A product of Klemm Leichtflugzeugbau Gmbh it shared the same single-engine, cantilever low-wing configuration as the earlier machine, the major ...
- test combination
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DFS 230
The DFS 230 was a German transport glider operated by the Luftwaffe in World War II. It was developed in 1933 by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - "German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight") with Hans Jacobs as the he ...
and
Focke-Wulf Fw 56
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG () was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. It is one of the p ...
- test combination
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DFS 230
The DFS 230 was a German transport glider operated by the Luftwaffe in World War II. It was developed in 1933 by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - "German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight") with Hans Jacobs as the he ...
and Messerschmitt Bf 109F - test combo, first Mistel combination
* Mistel 1 - warhead nosed Junkers Ju 88A-4 and Messerschmitt Bf 109F
* Mistel S-1 - trainer version of Mistel 1
* Mistel 2 - warhead nosed Junkers Ju 88G-1 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 or F-8
* Mistel S-2 - trainer version of Mistel 2
* Mistel 3 - warhead nosed Junkers Ju 88G and Focke-Wulf Fw 190A
* Mistel S-3A - trainer version of Mistel 3A
* Mistel Fuhrungsmaschine - long-range reconnaissance project with manned Ju 88H-4 with radar and Fw 190A-8 escort
* Gigant Mistel - Messerschmitt Me 323 and Messerschmitt Me 328 project
Nagler and Rolz
* Nagler and Rolz NR 54 - portable helicopter
* Nagler and Rolz NR 55 - portable helicopter
Naglo
(''Naglo Bootswerfte'')
* Naglo D.II - quadruplane fighter
NFW
(''National Flugzeug-Werk GmbH Johannisthal'')
* NFW B.I - trainer
* NFW E.I - experimental monoplane
* NFW E.II - experimental monoplane, 1917
Oertz
(''Oertz'')
* Oertz W 4 - flying boat
[Gray, 1970, p.491]
* Oertz W 5 - flying boat
[Gray, 1970, pp.491-492]
* Oertz W 6 ''Flugschoner'' - tandem double biplane flying boat
* Oerta W 7 - flying boat
* Oertz W 8 - flying boat
Otto
(''Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik & Otto Werke, Gustav Otto, München'')
* Otto pusher - reconnaissance pusher biplane, 1914
* Otto B.I - reconnaissance tractor biplane, 1914
[Gray, 1970, p.495]
* Otto C.I - reconnaissance pusher, 1915
* Otto C.II - reconnaissance tractor biplane
Pfalz
(''Pfalz Flugzeugwerke'')
* Pfalz A.I - reconnaissance monoplane, licence built Morane-Saulnier L
[Gray, 1970, p.496]
* Pfalz A.II - reconnaissance monoplane
* Pfalz C.I - Rumpler C.IV under licence with minor improvements
[Gray, 1970, p.508]
* Pfalz E.I - monoplane fighter
* Pfalz E.II - monoplane fighter
* Pfalz E.III - monoplane fighter
* Pfalz E.IV - monoplane fighter
* Pfalz E.V - monoplane fighter
* Pfalz D type - fighter biplane
* Pfalz D.III & IIIa - fighter
* Pfalz D.IV - fighter
* Pfalz D.VI - fighter
* Pfalz D.VII - fighter
* Pfalz D.VIII - fighter
* Pfalz D.XII - fighter
* Pfalz D.XIV - fighter
* Pfalz D.XV - fighter
* Pfalz Dr.I - triplane fighter
* Pfalz Dr.II - triplane fighter
Reiseler, Walter
* Reiseler R-1 - helicopter
* Reiseler R-2 - helicopter
Rex
(''Flugmaschine Rex GmbH'')
* Rex 1915 Scout - fighter, 1915
[Gray, 1970, p.510]
* Rex 1916 Scout - fighter, 1916
* Rex 1917 Scout - fighter, 1917
Rohrbach, Adolph
* Rohrbach Cyclogyro - 1933 paddle-wing project
Rohrbach
(''Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau'')
* Rohrbach Ro IV Inverness - patrol seaplane
* Rohrbach Ro IX Rofix - fighter
* Rohrbach Roterra - trimotor medium bomber, 1930, rejected by Reichswehr licensed to Czechoslovakia as Avia 46
Ruhrstahl
* Ruhrstahl X-4 - air-to-air missile (rocket-powered)
Rumpler
(''Rumpler Flugzeugwerke'')
* Rumpler Taube - reconnaissance monoplane
* Rumpler 4A/B.I - reconnaissance
* Rumpler 4E - flying boat, 1914
* Rumpler 4A 15 - bomber, 1915
* Rumpler C.I, Rumpler 5A/C.I & Ia - reconnaissance
* Rumpler 5A 15/G.I - bomber, 1915
* Rumpler 5A 16/G.II - bomber
* Rumpler C.III, Rumpler 6A/C.III - reconnaissance
* Rumpler 6B - fighter floatplane
* Rumpler G.III, Rumpler 6G 2/G.III - bomber
* Rumpler 7C/C.IX - reconnaissance
* Rumpler 7D - experimental fighters
* Rumpler C.X, Rumpler 8C/C.X - reconnaissance
* Rumpler D.I, Rumpler 8D/D.I - fighter
* Rumpler C.IV - reconnaissance
* Rumpler C.V - reconnaissance
* Rumpler C.VI - reconnaissance
* Rumpler C.VII - reconnaissance
* Rumpler C.VIII - reconnaissance
Sablatnig
(''Sablatnig Flugzeugbau GmbH'')
* Sablatnig SF-1 - two-seat floatplane
* Sablatnig SF-2 - reconnaissance/trainer floatplane
* Sablatnig SF-3 - floatplane fighter
* Sablatnig SF-4 - floatplane triplane fighter
* Sablatnig SF-5 - reconnaissance floatplane
* Sablatnig B.I, Sablatnig SF-6/B.I - trainer
[Gray, 1970, p.537]
* Sablatnig SF-7 - floatplane fighter
* Sablatnig SF-8 - floatplane trainer
* Sablatnig C.I - reconnaissance
* Sablatnig C.II - reconnaissance
* Sablatnig C.III - reconnaissance
* Sablatnig N.I - night bomber
Sack, Arthur
* Arthur Sack A.S.6 ''Bierdeckel'' - 1944 disk winged prototype
Sanger-Bredt
* Sanger Antipodal Bomber ''Silbervogel'' - jet bomber project, mock-up built
Schneider
(''Flugmaschine Fabrik Franz Schneider GmbH'')
* Schneider fighter 1918 - fighter
Schütte-Lanz
(''Luftfahrzeugbau Schütte-Lanz'')
* Schütte-Lanz C.I - reconnaissance pusher
* Schütte-Lanz D.I - fighter, possibly a copy of the Sopwith Tabloid
[Gray, 1970, p.546]
* Schütte-Lanz D.II - fighter prototype, re-engined D.I with Mercedes inline, 1915.
* Schütte-Lanz D.III - fighter
* Schütte-Lanz D.IV - fighter biplane
[Gray, 1970, p.548]
* Schütte-Lanz D.VI - monoplane fighter with lifting struts
* Schütte-Lanz D.VII - fighter biplane
* Schütte-Lanz Dr.I - triplane fighter
* Schütte-Lanz G.I - large fighting aircraft
* Schütte-Lanz R.I - heavy bomber project
Schwade
(''Schwade Flugzeug und Motorenbau GmbH'')
* Schwade 1914 Single-seater - pusher fighter biplane
* Schwade 1915 Single-seater - pusher biplane
Siebel
(''Siebel Flugzeugwerke'')
* Siebel Fh 104 ''Hallore'' - medium transport
* Siebel Si 201 - STOL reconnaissance aircraft prototype
* Siebel Si 202 ''Hummel'' - sportplane/trainer, 1938
* Siebel Si 204 - transport/crew trainer
SSW
(''Siemens-Schuckertwerke'')
* Siemens-Schuckert Bulldogge - single-seat monoplane, 1915
* Siemens-Schuckert B type - reconnaissance
* Siemens-Schuckert DD 5 - fighter biplane
[Gray, 1970, p.555]
* Siemens-Schuckert D.I & Ia - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert D.IIe - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert D.III - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert D.IV - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert D.V - fighter
[Gray, 1970, p.563]
* Siemens-Schuckert D.VI - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert Dr.II - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert DDr.I - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert E.I - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert E.II - fighter
* Siemens-Schuckert L.I - heavy bomber, originally to have been G.III
* Siemens-Schuckert R.I - heavy bomber
* Siemens-Schuckert R.II - heavy bomber
[Gray, 1970, pp.566 & 568]
* Siemens-Schuckert R.III - heavy bomber
* Siemens-Schuckert R.IV - heavy bomber
* Siemens-Schuckert R.V - heavy bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.567]
* Siemens-Schuckert R.VI - heavy bomber
* Siemens-Schuckert R.VII - heavy bomber
* Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII - heavy bomber
* Siemens-Schuckert Forssman - heavy bomber
* Siemens-Schuckert Torpedoglieter - series of radio control glide bombs
[Gray, 1970, p.571]
Škoda-Kauba (Occupied Czechoslovakia)
(''Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau'')
* Škoda-Kauba Sk V-5
* Škoda-Kauba Sk 257
* Skoda-Kauba Sk P.14 - ramjet fighter project
Soldenhoff
* Soldenhoff A.2
* Soldenhoff S 5 - experimental swept flying wing, 1936
Sombold, Heinz
* Sombold So 344 ''Rammschußjäger'' - rocket-powered interceptor project, 1944
Stöckel
* Stöckel Rammschussjäger - ramjet-powered interceptor project, 1944
Udet
(''Ernst Udet, Udet Flugzeugbau'')
* Udet U 12 Flamingo - trainer
Ursinus
(''Oskar Ursinus'')
* Ursinus Seaplane - fighter floatplane with retractable floats
VFW
(''Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke'')
* VFW VAK 191B - VTOL fighter/ground attack
VFW-Fokker
(''VFW-Fokker GmbH'')
* VFW-Fokker 614 - STOL transport
Wernher von Braun
(''Wernher von Braun'')
* Von Braun Interceptor rocket VTO interceptor project, 1939
Weserflug
(''Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH'')
* Weser We 271 - amphibian aircraft, prototype, 1939
* Weser P.1003 - tilt-rotor aircraft project
* Weser P.2127 - twin-boom aircraft project
* Weser P.2138 - large flying boat project
WNF
(''Wiener Neustadter Flugzeugwerk'')
* WNF-4
* Hopfner HA-11/33, WNF Wn 11
* WNF Wn 15
* WNF Wn 16
* WNF-342
Zeppelin Werke
(''Zeppelin-Werke GmbH'')
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.I - giant patrol seaplane
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.II - giant patrol seaplane
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.III - giant patrol seaplane
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.IV - giant patrol seaplane
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) D.I - fighter
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) C.I - two-seat military aircraft
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) C.II - two-seat military aircraft
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) CS.I - two-seat floatplane
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) CL.II - two seat close support/ground attack aircraft
* Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) V1 - experimental pusher to test stressed skin structure
* Zeppelin (Ja) C.I - reconnaissance, unrelated to previous C.I
[Gray, 1970, p.581]
* Zeppelin (Ja) C.II -reconnaissance, unrelated to previous C.II
* Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.I - heavy bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.II - heavy bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.III - heavy bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV - heavy bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken R.V - heavy bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI & Type L seaplane - heavy bomber/patrol bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken R.VII - heavy bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken 8301 - heavy floatplane bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV - heavy bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.587]
* Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV - heavy bomber
* Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI - heavy bomber
[Gray, 1970, p.588]
* Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 - heavy bomber/transport
* Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust (Flying Armored Fist) aircraft project
* Zeppelin Rammer ramming aircraft project
See also
* List of aircraft of the French Air Force during World War II
* List of aircraft of the Luftwaffe, World War II
* List of World War II Luftwaffe aircraft engines
* Idflieg aircraft designation system ''(World War I aircraft)''
* List of RLM aircraft designations ''(3rd Reich aircraft only)''
* List of Sailplanes
* List of Luftwaffe aircraft by manufacturer, World War II
References
Bibliography
*
* Dressel, Joachim and Griehl, Manfred. ''Bombers of the Luftwaffe''. Arms and Armour, 1994. .
* Dressel, Joachim and Griehl, Manfred. ''Fighters of the Luftwaffe''. Arms and Armour Press, 1993. .
* Donald, David (Editor) (1994). ''Warplanes of the Luftwaffe''. London: Aerospace Publishing. .
* Gray, Peter & Thetford, Owen. German Aircraft of the First World War”. London, Putnam. (2nd Ed.) 1970. .
* Green, William. ''The Warplanes of the Third Reich''. Doubleday & Co., New York. 1970.
* Nowarra, Heinz J.. ''Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933-1945 - Vol.1 - AEG-Dornier''. Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1993. Koblenz. (Gesamtwek), (Band 1)
* Smith, J.R. and Antony L Kay. ''German Aircraft of the Second World War''. London: Putnam, 1972. .
*''Hitler's Luftwaffe'', 1990,
*''German Helicopters 1928-1945'', 1990,
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