Messerschmitt Me 309 Development & Politics by Dan Sharp & Calum E. Douglas
Chosen in 1941 to replace the Bf 109 as the Luftwaffe’s standard front-line fighter, Messerschmitt’s innovative Me 309 embodied a wealth of hard-won experience from the Battle of Britain. Its sturdy tricycle...
daimler-benz
daimler-benz agjunkersflugzeug-undmotorenwerkeag
luftwaffe
messerschmitt
messerschmitt ag
nazi germany
reichsluftfahrtministerium
third reich
world war ii
Following WWI, Air Corps planners saw the need for a ground attack aircraft, which was armored and carried a 37 mm cannon and eight .30 caliber machine guns. This resulted in the GA-1. Six aircraft were built:
1. Boeing GA-1 (1920)
2. Orenco IL-1 (1921) (Also known as a Model E)
3. Junkers...
aeromarine plane and motor company
air-to-ground
boeing
early 1920s
gallaudet aircraft corporation
ground attack
interwar period
junkersflugzeug-undmotorenwerkeag
ordnance engineering corporation / orenco
united states
united states army air corps
united states army air service
Hi,
here is the drawings of the Junkers Ju-288 with Jumo 222 and Jumo 223 engines.
http://www.flugzeug-lorenz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF-Junkersbuch/Junkers_166-171.pdf
anti-ship
bomber b
early 1940s
ef 074
junkersflugzeug-undmotorenwerkeagjunkers flugzeugwerke a.g.
late 1930s
luftwaffe
medium bomber
nazi germany
pre-world war ii
reichsluftfahrtministerium
schnellbomber
strategic bomber
third reich
world war ii
Series of aircraft designs from Hugo Junkers from his patent filed in 1931. The main subject of the patent is more for the placement of engines in order to prevent pressure chamber rupture from blade fragments.
A few years ago I saw a poster(?) of the West German space shuttle (or lifting body proposal?) ERNO (= Entwicklungsring Nord) LB 21 Bumerang inside the Peenemünde museum. After this 'meeting' I never saw it again, neither in books nor in magazines.
Who can help with details (illustrations...
1970s
cold war
dornier
erno
federal republic of germany
france
junkersflugzeug-undmotorenwerkeag
mbb
mbb-erno
space age
space race
west germany
western europe
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