The Blohm & Voss BV 138 Seedrache (Sea Dragon) was a trimotor flying boat designed and built by the German aircraft manufacturer Blohm & Voss. It served...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 238 was a German flying boat, built during World War II. It was the heaviest aircraft ever built when it first flew in 1944, and was...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 141 (originally the Ha 141) was a World War II German tactical reconnaissance aircraft, notable for its uncommon structural asymmetry...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 40 was a prototype armoured German glider initially designed in mid-1943 by Blohm & Voss to attack Allied bomber formations during...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 155 is a German high-altitude interceptor aircraft intended to be used by the Luftwaffe against raids by USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortresses...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 246 Hagelkorn (German language: "Hailstone") was a guided glide bomb developed to bomb specific targets (bridges, ships, etc.) once...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 237 was a German proposed dive bomber with an unusual asymmetric design based on the Blohm & Voss BV 141. In 1942, the Luftwaffe was...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 143 was an early prototype rocket-assisted glide bomb developed by the German Luftwaffe during World War II. Blohm & Voss designers...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 144 was an advanced twin-engined commercial airliner developed by Germany during World War II but intended for post-war service. It...
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Blohm+Voss (B+V), also written historically as Blohm & Voss, Blohm und Voß etc., is a German shipbuilding and engineering company. Founded in Hamburg in...
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high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and the 46-meter wingspan, six-engined Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking flying boat. All three of these variants differed in stroke...
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The Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking (pronounced "Veeking") was a large six-engined German flying boat designed and built by the German aircraft manufacturer...
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Hamburger Flugzeugbau (redirect from Blohm + Voss Flugzeugbau)
Finkenwerder quarter of Hamburg, Germany. Established in 1933 as an offshoot of Blohm & Voss shipbuilders, it later became an operating division within its parent...
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floats. Further development of the Ha 139 led to the land-based version Blohm & Voss BV 142 which had its first flight in October 1938. The aircraft were flown...
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and used as trainer Blohm & Voss BV 40 glider interceptor (prototype) Blohm & Voss BV 138 flying-boat (formerly Ha 138) Blohm & Voss Ha 139 long range cargo/mailplane...
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flying boat Blohm & Voss BV 40 - Glider fighter Blohm & Voss BV 138 - Flying boat Blohm & Voss BV 246 - guided glide bomb Blohm & Voss BV 726 - jet powered...
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RLM aircraft by manufacturer (section Blohm & Voss)
(rocket-engine) Blohm & Voss BV 40, glider interceptor Blohm & Voss BV 138, flying-boat (early versions designated as Ha 138) Blohm & Voss Ha 139, long-range...
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Richard Vogt (aircraft designer) (section Blohm & Voss)
Blohm & Voss BV 138 Maritime reconnaissance flying boat (1937, 279 were built) Blohm & Voss Ha 139 Transport / reconnaissance seaplane (1936) Blohm &...
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The Blohm & Voss Bv P 188 was a long-range, heavy jet bomber design project by the Blohm & Voss aircraft manufacturing division during the last years...
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The Blohm & Voss Ha 142 was a four-engined long-distance monoplane designed and built by the German aircraft manufacturer Blohm & Voss. It was developed...
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1 manned flight attempted 40 Blohm & Voss BV 40 Ersatzjäger interceptor prototype 7 1944 glider 138 Blohm & Voss BV 138 Seedrache maritime patrol production...
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(prototype) Blohm & Voss BV 138 Fliegende Holzschuh, flying-boat (early versions designated as Ha 138) Blohm & Voss BV 141, reconnaissance (asymmetric) Blohm &...
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The Blohm & Voss Ha 140 was a German multi-purpose seaplane first flown in 1937. It was intended for use as a torpedo bomber or long-range reconnaissance...
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flying boat were too slow and short-ranged. The then-contemporary Blohm & Voss BV 138 Seedrache ("seadragon") flying boat became the Luftwaffe's primary...
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weather cleared by noon on 12 September. The clearer skies revealed a Blohm & Voss BV 138 flying boat shadowing the convoy. Four Hurricanes took off to intercept...
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Japanese Kawanishi H6K and Kawanishi H8K flying boats, and the German Blohm & Voss BV 138 diesel-engined trimotor flying boat, as well as the converted Focke-Wulf...
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per month. By 17 August 1942, production had climbed rapidly after Blohm & Voss BV 138 production was scaled down and licence work had shut down at WFG...
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Total Arado Ar 196 22 104 94 107 104 - - 435 Blohm & Voss BV 138 39 82 85 70 - - - 276 Blohm & Voss BV 222 - - - - 4 - - 4 Dornier Do 18 22 49 - - -...
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tailless pusher fighter. FGP 227 quarter-scale flying test model of the Blohm & Voss BV 238 flying boat Transall C-160 joint venture transport. Green 1979...
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Grumman Wildcat Vs, and two spares. The Grumman Wildcats shot down a Blohm & Voss BV 138 on 22 August. For Operation Neptune from 5 June 1944 to the middle...
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