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    missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) designation was Fieseler Fi 103 and its suggestive name was Höllenhund (hellhound). It was also known...
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    The Fieseler Fi 103R, code-named Reichenberg, was a German manned version of the V-1 flying bomb (more correctly known as the Fieseler Fi 103). It was...
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    The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch ([ʃtɔrç], "stork") was a liaison aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler. Its nickname...
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  • Bf 109 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190. In 1941 however, a Fieseler project for an unpiloted flying bomb (Fi 103) attracted the attention of the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium...
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    The Fieseler Fi 167 was a 1930s German biplane torpedo and reconnaissance bomber designed for use from the Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carriers under...
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    The Fieseler Fi 158 was a civilian research aircraft designed and built in Germany from 1938. Designed as a manned version of the Fi 157 radio-controlled...
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    War II. During the autumn of 1935, the considerable potential of the Fieseler Fi 156 project for the tasks of short-range reconnaissance and aerial observation...
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  • - biplane fighter, 1936 Fieseler Fi 99 Jungtiger - light utility aircraft, 1938 Fieseler Fi 103/V-1 - flying bomb Fieseler Fi 103R Series - Reichenberg...
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    display in the open-air part of the site are a replica V-1 flying bomb (Fieseler Fi 103) and the A4 rocket. Exhibits in the Peenemünde Historical Technical...
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    Berlin-Gatow. After arriving at Gatow, Reitsch and von Greim commandeered a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch and flew to Hitler's bunker. Also on 26 April, Fliegerstabsing...
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    Fieseler F 4 was developed, built and flown as a two-seat sports and travel aircraft at the Fieseler Flugzeugbau. After the failure of the Fieseler F...
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    planform. In August 1942, a Fieseler Fi 103, code name Flakzielgerät-43 (FGZ-43) – the piloted prototype of the German V1 flying bomb – crashed on the...
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    Lusser went to Fieseler, and there became involved with the company's efforts to produce a pilotless aircraft, initially designated the Fi 103. This was a...
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    such use being intended. However, work was dropped in favour of the Fieseler Fi 103R (Reichenberg). A wide variety of roles were suggested for the aircraft...
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    Messerschmitt Bf 109 (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    received two of these engines and adapted the engine mounts of V1 to take the V-12 engine upright. V1 made its maiden flight at the end of May 1935 at the airfield...
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    Bristol Bloodhound Mk2 English Electric Thunderbird Mk2 Replica Fieseler Fi 103 (V1 Doodlebug) with a section of the original Peenemünde launch ramp...
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  • 1942, Gosslau participated in the development team of the Fieseler Fi 103, also called V1 – an unmanned, explosive payload missile. Towards the end of...
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    to demonstrate the Fa 223's abilities. Loads which included a complete Fieseler Storch aircraft and the fuselage of a Bf 109 were shown being lowered with...
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    dive bomber requirements for the new Luftwaffe. Henschel and rival Fieseler (with the Fi 98) competed for the production contract requirement, which specified...
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    actually that of the earlier Messerschmitt Bf 163. Three Bf 163-prototypes (V1 to V3) had been built, and it was thought that foreign intelligence services...
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    Island. A photograph and a detailed sketch of the V-1 test unit, the Fieseler Fi 103 V83 (Versuchs-83, the eighty-third prototype airframe) was sent to...
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    BP-20 ("Natter") was a development from a design he had worked on at Fieseler, the Fi 166 concept, but considerably more radical than the other submissions...
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    Focke-Wulf Fw 190, with detailed descriptions. The first prototype, the Fw 190 V1 (civil registration D-OPZE), powered by a 1,550 metric horsepower [PS] (1...
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    estimate. However, below is a list of the top scoring Sturmbock pilots: Fw 190 V1 (civil registration D-OPZE), powered by a 1,550 PS (1,530 hp; 1,140 kW) BMW...
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    designer, Reinhold Mewes. Mewes then left to join another small company, Fieseler. In his place, Hamburger hired Richard Vogt, who had been working for a...
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    several tons of German military equipment, including the piloted V1 rocket Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg and several armoured vehicles. Some of these vehicles...
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  • Bell XP-59 flies, powered by a General Electric Type I-A (W.1). The Fieseler Fi 103 V-1 pulsejet powered "flying bomb" (cruise missile) flies for the first...
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    Netherlands and overran the landing sites. Some of the H-22s were loaded with Fieseler Fi 103R (Reichenberg) missiles. The conditions of late 1944 differed greatly...
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  • Heinkel He 280 V1, DL+AS, ice up and become inoperable. The fighter, being used in tests of the Argus As 014 impulse jets for Fieseler Fi 103 missile development...
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  • Restoration Facility. September First two attempted test flights of the Fieseler Fi 103R (Reichenberg) at Lärz on consecutive days results in both pilots...
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