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CANT Z.506 Airone (Heron) Italian three engine floatplane which initially served as a transport and postal aircraft with the Italian airline Ala Littoria. Later used as a reconnaissance aircraft, bomber and air-sea rescue aeroplane during the war with the Regia Aeronautica. First flew 18.8.1935
Kriegsmarine (German navy) Flugzeugträger (Aircraft carrier) Graf Zeppelin, moored at a quay in Stettin, West Pomerania (now Szczecin, Poland) circa 1941/1942. It was never completed before the end of the war
The Henschel Hs 121 was the first aircraft built by the Henschel Flugzeugwerke AG. 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, in 1933-34, as a testpiece for the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM/Reich Aviation Ministry)
1919 aviation poster advertises the Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (LVG), a prominent German aircraft manufacturer active during WWI and the post-war era. Artwork by Fritz Neumann-Fred, showcasing an expressive, low-angle perspective of an LVG biplane in flight
13 victory WWI ace and Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) holder, Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps (NSFK/National Socialist Flyers Corps) Korpsführer and General der Flieger Friedrich Christiansen. He was a seaplane pilot of the Marine-Fliegerabteilung, the aviation arm of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy). He flew over 440 missions and on 6 July 1918 he surprised and damaged the British submarine HMS C25 in the Thames estuary, killing its captain and five crewmen. He was the first of only three naval aviators and the only seaplane pilot to be awarded the Blue Max
Histories greatest aviatrix Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch and an SA Untersturmführer, 22 May 1937, Aachen-Merzbrück Airfield. The glider is the experimental FVA-10b Rheinland glider, notable for its fully enclosed, streamlined cockpit layout and pre-war development by the Flugwissenschaftliche Vereinigung Aachen. Later in the summer of 1937, this specific aircraft was flown by German pilot and aeronautical engineer Felix Kracht (the designer of the Rheinland) during the 1937 Rhön Gliding Competition. It achieved a notable 175km distance flight over the Alps, landing in Udine, Italy
Tintin and the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow)
The mighty 12-engined Dornier Do X (D-1929) moored along a wooden ramp on the Müggelsee (Lake Müggel), Berlin, 24 May 1932. This event marked the highly publicised homecoming of the world's biggest flying boat at the end of its multi-continent tour. It returned from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, and it was greeted upon arrival at the lake by a crowd estimated at 200,000 spectators. In 1934 it was disassembled and transported to the Deutsches Luftfahrtmuseum and reassembled inside for permanent display. It was completely destroyed along with countless other priceless aircraft by the RAF in 1943
The first aircraft to come out of the Siebel Flugzeugwerke production was the Siebel Fh 104. The story of Siebel began back in 1936 when Doktor Hans Klemm opened a new aircraft factory, the Flugzeugbau Halle GmbH. This company would go on to produce licence-built aircraft, including the Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch), and Heinkel He 46. Between 1936 and 1937, a new project led by Hans Klemm was initiated.
This was a light twin-engined transport aircraft designated as Fh 104. While the work was going on, Klemm decided to hand over the factory to well-known aircraft enthusiast Fritz W Siebel. The same year the name was changed to Siebel Flugzeugwerke Halle GmbH. Under new management, the work on the renamed Siebel Fh 104 continued.
The Siebel Fh 104 would prove to be a solid design and was pressed into Luftwaffe service as a communication and liaison aircraft. In 1942 the production of this aircraft was terminated, by which time only some 46 were built. The Siebel factory would survive the war and even produce a few new aircraft designs. It would continue to exist up to 1968 when it was merged with Messerschmitt-Bolkow GmbH
Leutnant Hans Rosencratz (left) and his pilot, Leutnant Wilhelm Fahlbusch (right) of KG I, standing in front of their LFG Roland, possibly a Roland C.II Walfisch (Whale fish), 1916. Rosencrantz was an observer ace, credited with five victories. Note his fox pelt and Fahlbusch's EK2 (Iron Cross 2nd class) ribbon attached to his tunic buttonhole. Both were KIA on 6 September 1916 over Malincourt, France
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (H1+ZH) of 1.(H)/Aufklärungsgruppe 12, Eastern Front, winter 1942/43. The Stork was hands-down the best STOL aircraft of the war, it's capabilities were unmatched
Period poster titled Verkehrsmittel der Neuzeit (Modern Means of Transportation) was designed by Sigmund von Suchodolski in 1913. It served as the cover art for a German board game called Neuestes Reisespiel (Newest Travel Game). The artwork showcases the era's cutting-edge travel technology, featuring a Zeppelin airship, a steam locomotive, a steamship and a vintage automobile
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor of 4./KGrzbV 107, Norway, March-June 1940. Early transport only version, note lack of Bola (gondola) and no defence armament
Postwar - NASA rocket meistro Doktor Wernher von Braun and history's greatest aviatrix, Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch. Hanna was invited to meet President John F Kennedy on 1 May 1961 at the (now non-existent Rose Garden IYKYK). She visited the White House alongside members of the Whirly-Girls, an international organisation of female helicopter pilots, where she was designated as member WG #1. She also met helicopter giant Igor Sikorsky as well as von Braun and JFK
Two rare Junkers Ju 90 transport/heavy-tow aircraft deployed under the operational command of the XI. Fliegerkorps (11th Air Corps), which controlled Luftwaffe airborne and glider operations. The front Ju 90 is the V7, WNr 4919 (GF+GH), the rear Ju 90 is the V8, WNr 4920 (BJ+??), Grosseto airfield, Italy, March 1943. Photo taken by PK XI (Propagandakompanie/Propaganda Company) detachment attached to the XI. Fliegerkorps which documented military operations in the Mediterranean theatre. These two aircraft would later be classified as Ju 290 V2 and V3 location unknown
Junkers Ju 290A-4, 1945, location unknown
The mighty 12-engined Dornier Do X flying boat (D-1929). Artwork by Shigeo Koike