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Lohner Pfeilflieger

Meet the first Bulgarian designed aircraft! This plane was designed by the successful Assen Jordanoff, following the necessity for a domestic aircraft is Bulgaria. The need had its roots in the Second Balkan war, which caused the fledgling Bulgarian air industry to begin to fall flat after only...

I was looking into the possibility of the existence of WWI foreign aircraft exploitation programs after looking at a number of German aircraft in the hands of Allied troops during the war. I found that the US Signal Corps maintained a Foreign Data Section of its intelligence branch within the...

From Germany: The Fokker Liemberger, a precursor to the modern minigun https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Fokker-Leimberger The Gast Gun, cylindrical drum mag is the 8mm mauser version, curved box mag is the 13.2mm TuF version https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=202027...

Hi, Austrian Igo Etrich (1879-1967) was experimented in aeronautics from 1899. After working with engineer Franz Wels he made a tailless glider with backswept wings in 1907. 1909 Etrich "Nurflügel" (Only Wings) tractor monoplane 1909 Etrich Taube (Dove) tractor monoplane 1909 Etrich-Wels...

As we end the first year of remembering the start of the First World War and begin to think about the end of the Second World War and the world Britain found itself in, many experts have given us their thoughts on TV and elsewhere about Britain's role in both wars and their impact on Britain's...

Automobil und Aviatik AG was a German aircraft manufacturer during World War I. The company was established at Mülhausen (today in France) in 1910 by Julius Spengler and soon became one of the country's leading producers of aircraft, relocating to Freiburg in 1914 and establishing a subsidiary...

Hi, I will repeat the info about Halberstadt,the B Type was two seat unarmed recce biplane of 1914,powered by one Oberursel U D engine,not to be confuse with B.I,B.II & B.III.

Hi, the Friedrichshafen G.VI was a biplane heavy bomber project,here is its drawing and data.

Speaking of which... :)

Hi, we can also here,speak about AEG projects,and we talk about AEG R-Project and R.II in this topic; http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,15020.0.html But,does anyone hear about AEG G.VI bomber project ?.

hi all FF 1 Two-seat single-float biplane (11.1912) FF 2 Single-seat two-float monoplane (1913) FF 4 Two-seat two-float monoplane (02.1914) FF 8 Single-seat two-float sport monoplane (06.1913) FF 9 Two-seat single-float racing biplane (06.1913) FF 11 Two-seat reconnaissance biplane...

you know Luft '46 http://www.luft46.com/ over proposed aircraft project during WW2 but is there a similar webpage over proposed project during WW1 ? thanks in advance...

Hi, FockeWulf261, I have found some more data concerning the German bombers R series from the book "Prof. Junkers nannte es "Die Flieger"" by Hermann Pohlmann: 1- Junkers R1 power-plant installation (4 x 250hp) 2- Siemens R-1 (Span: 30m, Weight: 5500kg, 3 x 150hp) 3- Zeppelin-Staaken R-VI ((4 x...