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    The Arado Ar 234 Blitz (English: lightning) is a jet-powered bomber designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. It was the world's...
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    II, the E.381 was to have been carried aloft by and launched from an Arado Ar 234 "mother" aircraft. It would then have activated its rocket engine, which...
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    late in World War II, powering the Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter and the Arado Ar 234 reconnaissance/bomber, along with prototypes, including the Horten Ho...
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  • Arado E.555 Arado E.560 Arado E.561 Arado E.580 Arado E.581.4 Arado E.581.5 Arado E.583 Arado E.625 Arado E.632 Arado E.651 Arado E.654 Arado Ar Projekt II...
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    The Arado Ar 64 was a single-seat biplane fighter designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. It was among the first fighters produced...
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    waterproof container. There were plans, not put into practice, to use the Arado Ar 234 jet bomber to launch V-1s either by towing them aloft or by launching...
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    The Arado Ar 80 was a pre-World War II fighter aircraft, designed by Arado Flugzeugwerke to compete for the Luftwaffe's first major fighter contract. The...
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    The Arado Ar 196 is a shipboard reconnaissance low-wing monoplane aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. It was the...
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    jet-propelled bomber to equal those being fielded by Nazi Germany, such as the Arado Ar 234. Following a competitive review of the submissions, the War Department...
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    The Arado Ar 240 was a German twin-engine, multi-role heavy fighter aircraft, developed for the Luftwaffe during World War II by Arado Flugzeugwerke. Its...
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    The Arado Ar 68 was a single-seat biplane fighter designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado Flugzeugwerke. It was among the first...
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    The Arado Ar 66 was a single-engined twin-seat training biplane designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. It was the last aircraft...
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    word comes from French, in this case from a word for a small boat. The Arado Ar 234 was one of the first operational jet aircraft with engines mounted in...
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    Second World War. The Arado E.560 designs were a development based on the Arado 234, and they share some characteristics with that plane. Only four designs...
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  • by Arado Flugzeugwerke. J. Richard Smith; Eddie J. Creek (1997). Blitz : Germany's Arado Ar 234 jet bomber. Merriam Press. ISBN 978-1576380079. v t e...
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    The Arado Ar 81 was a German prototype dive bomber. Because the Reich Air Ministry decided to purchase the competing Junkers Ju 87, only three prototypes...
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  • (prototype) Arado Ar 199 seaplane trainer (prototypes) Arado Ar 231 folding U-boat reconnaissance aircraft (prototype) Arado Ar 232 transport Arado Ar 234 Blitz...
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    troop-glider. Arado Ar 234 Blitz – the first operational turbojet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. Arado E.555 – a planned jet-powered Amerikabomber. Arado E.560...
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    The Arado Ar 231 was a lightweight floatplane, developed during World War II in Nazi Germany as a scout plane for submarines by Arado. The need to be...
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    The Arado Ar 95 was a single-engine reconnaissance and patrol biplane designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. During the mid...
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    request. Arado had also developed its own small, shorter-range jet bomber, the Ar 234 Blitz, which first flew in June 1943. By early 1944, Arado was asked...
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  • - Arado Ar 234, He 177A, Ju 88 Lotfe 7D - Ar 234, Focke-Wulf Fw 200, Ju 88 Lotfe 7H - Ju 88, Fw 200, Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a/U2 Lotfe 7K - Ar 234, Me...
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  • Thumbnail for Arado Ar 197
    The Arado Ar 197 was a German World War II-era biplane, designed for naval operations for the never-completed German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin. Only...
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    The Arado Ar 96 is a single-engine, low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction, designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado Flugzeugwerke...
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    Heinkel He 162 and the later C-series, four-engined versions of the Arado Ar 234. About 3,500 BMW 003 engines were built in Germany, but very few were...
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  • Thumbnail for Arado Ar 232 Tausendfüßler
    The Arado Ar 232 Tausendfüßler (German: "Millipede"), sometimes also called Tatzelwurm, was a cargo aircraft that was designed and produced in small numbers...
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    The Arado Ar 195 was a single-engine prototype carrier-based torpedo bomber, built by the German firm Arado for service on the German aircraft carrier Graf...
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  • winter/spring 1945 period, single-plane Kommando-designated units that used the Arado Ar 234 Blitz jet powered reconnaissance-bomber operated from hidden, forest-lined...
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    The Arado Ar 65 was the single-seat biplane fighter successor to the Ar 64. Both looked very similar. The only major difference was the use of a 12-cylinder...
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  • The Arado Ar 198 was a prototype reconnaissance aircraft, developed by Arado Flugzeugwerke, with backing from the Luftwaffe, who initially preferred it...
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