Reich Air Ministry (RLM) for the allocation of aircraft designations, the designers and manufacturers of sailplanes and gliders in Germany enjoyed the...
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(Reichsluftfahrtministerium; RLM) had a system for aircraft designation which was an attempt by the aviation authorities of the Third Reich to standardize and produce an...
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differ on the allocations. RLM numbering system for gliders and sailplanes Japanese military aircraft designation systems Dan Sharp, 2016. Luftwaffe:...
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Organization of the Luftwaffe (1933–1945) (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from March 2024)
List of RLM paint designations Organization of the Kriegsmarine RLM aircraft designation system RLM numbering system for gliders and sailplanes Stab (Luftwaffe...
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DFS Weihe (category 1930s German sailplanes)
Museum (2010). "Sailplanes, Hang Gliders & Motor Gliders". Retrieved 26 May 2011. Shenstone, B.S.; K.G. Wilkinson (1958). The World's Sailplanes:Die Segelflugzeuge...
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Horten H.IV (category 1940s German sailplanes)
May 1947 towed by a Fieseler Storch. The H.IV was allocated the RLM ID number 8-251 and by inference Horten Ho 251 though this was little used in practice...
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Horten H.VI (category 1940s German sailplanes)
was allocated the RLM ID number 8-253 and by inference Horten Ho 253 though this was little used in practice. Data from Sailplanes 1920-1945 General characteristics...
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Horten H.III (category 1930s German sailplanes)
Other H.IIIs carried out research into control systems. The H.III was allocated the RLM ID number 8-250 and by inference Horten Ho 250 though this was little...
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DFS 228 (section Design and development)
system for sailplanes. The project was suspended by the commencement of hostilities, but was revived in 1940 when the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM...
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Lippisch Ente (category Glider aircraft)
encountered some of Lippisch's revolutionary gliders, which because of their tail-less designs seemed suitable for adapting to rocket propulsion. Lippisch...
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Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from November 2022)
the RLM's "GL/C" airframe number, 8-163, was actually that of the earlier Messerschmitt Bf 163. Three Bf 163-prototypes (V1 to V3) had been built, and it...
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V-1 flying bomb (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1944)
(RLM) name was Fieseler Fi 103 and its suggestive name was Höllenhund (hellhound). It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug and Maikäfer...
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Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS), the "German Institute for Sailplane Flight". A prototype was constructed but did not reach completion before...
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conception as not only a bomber but also a night fighter and bomber destroyer, due to RLM's perceived threat of the U.S.'s high-altitude B-29 (which ended...
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