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Messerschmitt

The first prototype flew and then crashed on February 26, 1928. The second prototype flew on August 3, 1928. 14 ...

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Four-seat cabin monoplane designed originally as the M 37 by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke company (which became Messerschmitt in 1935) for ...

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It would take rather more than a Solomon to judge which was the best of the fighter aircraft used by ...

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Second of the important fighters designed by Willy Messerschmitt, the Bf 110 originated from a Reichsluftfahrtministerium requirement of 1934 for ...

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Unsuccessful competitor for the Ju 88, superficially resembling the Bf 110, but with a ...

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The Me 209 was a small, high-powered aircraft built especially for setting the world ...

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Reconnaissance version of the Bf 110, with a new nose. Development was abandoned when ...

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Almost from the earliest moments of its service trials the Bf 110 had been found to lack one essential characteristic ...

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Few aircraft (if any) can have been as hair-raising to fly as the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. The first production ...

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What would have been the outcome of the war in Europe if in 1940 the potential of Messerschmitt's Project 1065 ...

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Originally designed as a long-range record-breaking aircraft, the Me 261 had an extremely slender ...

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Consequently Junkers and Messerschmitt competed in 1940 to design and develop a very large transport glider suitable for the delivery ...

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Before going to war in 1939 Germany had explored and developed the use of parachute and airborne troops, thus ensuring ...

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The Me 410 Hornisse was developed in 1942 to replace the Me 210 and was essentially similar to the late-production ...

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Strategic bomber. The Me 264 could lift 39400 litres of fuel and 1800kg of ...

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The Me 309 was designed as a replacement for the Bf 109, already in ...

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The Messerschmitt Me 328 was conceived in 1942 as a cheap and simple high-speed low-level bomber and emergency fighter. Smaller ...

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High-altitude fighter programme, not related to the earlier Me 209 record aircraft. The two ...

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Proposed development of the Me 210, more advanced than the Me 410. The Me ...

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An experimental jet fighter capable of having its wings set at different angles of sweepback. It was never completed but ...

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This rocket-engined fighter was initially a development of the Me 163, but retained no ...

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Project for a tailless, two-seat fighter-bomber. Only an unpowered glider prototype was built.

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