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Trainer

 
Type: Focke-Wulf Fw 44C Stieglitz two seat trainer and liaison aircraft.
Max Speed: 115 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 3,280  ft. 5 minutes 30 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 12,795 ft.
Range: 419 miles.
Armament:none
Photo: Musee de 1 Air
Fw 44Cs of the German training establishment.

 

Type: RFB Fantrainer 600 two seat basic trainer.
Max Speed: 267 mph at 18,045 ft.
Climb Rate: 3,000 per minute
Service Ceiling: 24,9356 ft.
Range: 864 miles.
Armament: up to 1,984 lb of disposable stores.
Photo: Coll Avia News
The five blade ducted fan of the Fantrainer is located behind the wing trailing edge, and the rear fuselage is a cruciform structure to support the tail unit without seriously impending the flow of propulsive air from the pusher fan.

 

Type: Focke-Wulf Fw 58B four seat gunnery trainer.
Max Speed: 168 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 18,375 ft.
Range: 497 miles.
Armament: two trainable 0.313 in 7.62 mm machine guns, and provision for a light
bomb.
Photo: Musee de 1' AIR
The glazed nose ientifies this plane as an Fw 58B, while the civil registration marks it is a prototype.

 

 

Fighter

 
Type: Messerschmitt Bf-109E-3 single seat fighter.
Max Speed: 348 mph at 14,560 ft.
Climb Rate: 3,290 ft. in 1 minutes 6 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 34,450 ft.
Range: 410 miles.
Armament: two or three 20 mm cannon and two 7.92 mm 0.312
machine guns.
Photo: D. R.
A Bf- 109E of the Ludtwaffe in flight over Mediterranean coast of North Africa in 1941.

 

Type: Fw 109A-3 single seat fighter.
Max Speed: 382 mph at 19,685 ft.
Climb Rate: 2,830 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 34,775 ft.
Range: 497 miles.
Armament: four 20 mm cannon and two 7.9 mm 0.312 in machine guns.
Photo: D. R.
The Fw 109A compact, light, very easy handling and well armed, was the best fighter on the Western front from the end of 1941 through 1942

 
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 110C-1 two seat heavy fighter.
Max Speed: 326 mph at 13,125 ft.
Climb Rate: 2,165 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 32,810 ft.
Range: 680 miles.
Armament: two 20 mm cannon and five 7.92 mm 0.312 machine guns four fixed in the nose with the cannon and one trainable.
Photo: D. R.
Like most other twin engine fighters of the period, the Bf 109 was successful only when used conditions of air superiority.

 
Type: Albatros D V single fighter.
Max Speed: 116 mph at 3,280 ft.
Climb Rate: 3,280 ft. in 4 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 18,700 ft.
Range: endurance 2 hours 0 minutes.
Armament: two 7.92-mm 0.312-in machine guns.
Photo: D. R.
This isa replica of a D Va in the personal colors of Leutnant (lieutenant) H. J. von Hippel of Jasta 5  (5th Squadron) in the spring of 1918

 
Type: Heinkel He 100D-1 single seat fighter.
Max Speed: 416 mph at 16,405 ft.
Climb Rate: 6,560 ft. in 2 minutes 12 seconds
Service Ceiling: 36,090 ft.
Range: 553 miles.
Armament: One 20-mm cannon and two 0.312-in 7.92 mm
machine guns.
Photo: D. R.
The He 100D was potentially a world beating fighter without the Bf 109's limiting features, but was beaten by political factors and shortages of the DB 601 engine.

 
Type: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2 single seat Fighter.
Max Speed: 406 mph at 28,540 ft
Climb Rate: 6,560 one minute and 30 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 39,370 ft.
Range: 528 miles.
Armament:  one 20-mm cannon and two 0.312-in machine guns.
Photo: Coll Wiese
A Bf 109G-5 with its engine cowling open.

 
Type: Focke-Wulf Fw 159 V2 single seat fighter prototype. 
Max Speed: 239 mph at 13,125 ft.
Climb Rate: 19,685 12 min. 30 sec.
Service Ceiling: 23,620 ft
range: 404 miles.
Armament: two 0.312-in (7.92-mm) machine guns.
Photo: Musee de Air
The Fw 159 VI made only one flight. The main legs retracted nicely after take off but refused to extend fully as the pilot prepared to land, resulting in a somersault and total destruction as the prototype touched down. 

 
Type: Dornier Do 335A-1 Pfeil single seat fighter and fighter bomber.
Max Speed: 478 mph at 21,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 26,250 in 14 min. 30 sec.
Service Ceiling: 37,400 ft.
Range: 857 miles.
Armament: one 30-mm and 15-mm cannon and up to 2,205 lb of bombs.
Photo: Salamander
The Do 335A-1 was an original answer to the problems of using two engines in a single seat fighter, but the nearest it got to operational status was Erprobungskommando 335, an operational evaluation unit, during the spring of 1945.

 
Type: Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) D I single seat fighter prototype.
Max Speed:
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling:
Range:
Armament: two fixed 0.312 in 7.92 mm machine guns.
Photo: Musee de 1'Air
Despite the advanced nature of its concept and construction, the D I possessed a number of failings and limitations that prevented any chance of a production order.

 

Type: Pfalz D XV single seat fighter
Max Speed: 124 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: 3,280 ft in two minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 19,685 ft.
Range: endurance about 2 hours 0 minutes.
Armament: two 7.92 mm 0.312 in machine guns.
Photo: S. H. S. S.
The Pfalz D XV appeared so close to the end of the First World War that it was probably flown by more Allied pilots after the war than German pilots during it! This ia an example in French hands during 1919.

 

Type: Fokker D VII single seat fighter.
Max Speed: 117 at 3,280 ft.
Climb Rate: 16,405 ft in 16 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 22,965 ft.
Range: endurance 1 hour 30 minutes.
Armament: two 7.92 mm 0.312 in fixed machine guns.
Photo: D. R.
A replica D VII of Jasta 4 (4th squadron) in colors of Germany's second ranking ace, Ernst Udet.

 

 

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