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	RLM aircraft designation system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The RLM aircraft designation system was an attempt by the aviation bureaucracy of the Third Reich to standardize and produce an identifier for each aircraft type produced in Germany.
		When the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium "Reich Aviation Ministry") was given control of the country's aviation activities in 1933 it set out to catalogue both aircraft already in production by various manufacturers as well as new projects approved for development by the ministry.
		For most manufacturers however, the designation remained the same: In smaller companies (like Klemm and Fieseler) the namesake owner and nominal chief designer were one and the same person while in bigger companies the planes were designed by a factory team with varying members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RLM_aircraft_designation_system (1207 words)

	Heinkel He 219 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was an advanced design with a pressurized cockpit, twin ejection seats, the first to be used in any combat aircraft, nose wheel landing gear, and remote control defensive guns like the Messerschmitt Me 210's.
		The RLM rejected the design in August 1940 as being too complex and risky.
		This design was similar in layout but somewhat smaller, and powered by the smaller and simpler DB 603 engine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/He_219 (1358 words)

	[3.0] World War II Glide Bombs (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Designing a guided weapon that could deal with countermeasures was difficult, particularly because the British were extremely clever at electronically outfoxing the Germans, so much so that some Germans refused to believe the British could be so far ahead of them.
		The alternate approach was the dive bomber, in which a pilot flew his aircraft flew directly down at the target at a steep angle, building up speed and ensuring accuracy through the simple measure of aiming his entire aircraft at the target, and releasing the bomb at low altitude.
		Another system was more subtle, "spoofing" the bomb by sending false control signals to the Strassburg controller that slammed the weapon's control surfaces to an extreme position, causing it to stall and tumble, or descend in an aimless spiral.
	www.vectorsite.net /twbomb3.html (4883 words)

	Messerschmitt Me 163B
		It was also to be a rocket-powered design under a top-secret program designated Project X. DFS was to build the aircraft's wings while Heinkel, which was already working on the He 176, was to manufacture the rest of the airframe.
		It was replaced by a new design, designated the DFS 194, with a single large vertical stabilizer mounted on the fuselage.
		Although the aircraft's two MK 108 30mm cannons were capable of downing a four-engine bomber with only three or four hits, the Komet's high speed, coupled with the cannons' slow rate of fire and short range made effective gunnery nearly impossible against the slow moving bombers.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/me163.htm (1637 words)

	PARKER INFORMATION RESOURCES / AIRPLANE PLANS
		It was an era in which the same basic design could fulfill the very-different requirements of both services, something only possible due to the relatively unsophisticated state of aircraft technology of the time.
		When the Navy ordered the aircraft into limited production, it was called the BF2C-1; a new designation which meant the aircraft was seen primarily as a dive bomber, with the role of fighter as a secondary requirement.
		These aircraft were involved in the defence of London and served with Coastal Command in anti-shipping, reconnaissance, and a variety of other roles.
	www.parkerinfo.com /plans/applans2.htm (2074 words)

	Df 560
		The designation DFS 6 is one, not entirely understood, of a German glider made in the 1930s.
		The DFS 194 was a rocket-powered aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch at the ''Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug'' (DFS - German Institute for Sailplane Flight) based on his ''Delta'' series of tail-less designs.
		The initial design of the DFS 228 was undertaken before the outbreak of war as a research aircraft, the
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/24/df-560.html (509 words)

	Horten Ho 229 V3
		The Horten IX design became the Horten Ho 229 aircraft program after Göring granted the project official status in 1943 and the technical office of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium assigned to it the design number 229.
		Hencefourth, the official designation for airplanes based on the Horten IX design changed to Horten Ho 229 suffixed with ‘Versuch' numbers to designate the various prototypes.
		Few aircraft before the Horten 229 or after it have matched the purity and simplicity of its aerodynamic form but whether this achievement would have led to a successful and practical combat aircraft remains an open question.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/horton_229.htm (2715 words)

	Remote Piloted Aerial Vehicles : The 'Aerial Target' and 'Aerial Torpedo' in Germany
		In 1941, a Professor Wagner conceived and designed the Schmetterling anti-aircraft missile and submitted it for appraisal and approval to the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium, phew!) or the State Ministry of Aviation, which duly rejected the design because its defensive purpose was considered weak and still unnecessary in 1941.
		Since the mother aircraft was required to slow down to allow the bomb aimer to track the bomb it was even more vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire than the Hs 293 mother aircraft which launched from further away.
		The one risk that the allies had was that these systems that came to the battle of Normandy would be used against the troop transports, and of course the amendous...., tremendous loss of life.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/rpav_germany_hr.html (4939 words)

	EADS N.V. - Messerschmitt Bf 109
		The Bf 109 was a monospar cantilever low-wing aircraft with a fuselage attached retractable gear, which should enable the easy transport of the fuselage on a flat car after dismounting the wings.
		This aircraft had the designation Bf 109 A but because its armament was assessed as being too light only a small series of about 20 units was manufactured.
		Two testing models were accordingly designed and formed the basis for the Bf 109 C and the Bf 109 D series that was manufactured from the end of 1937 on.
	www.eads.com /web/printout/en/1024/content/OF00000000400004/2/16/542162.html (3647 words)

	The Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe / Sturmvogel
		The preliminary designs for "Project 1065", as it was designated, went through a iteration or two and finally resulted in a proposal submitted to the RLM in May 1940.
		In modern aircraft, this is done by a high-torque electric motor or airflow from a small starter turbine engine, while in many earlier jet aircraft it was done using a pyrotechnic cartridge that kicked the turbine into motion.
		Preliminary design of the He-280 apparently began in the summer of 1939, while the He-178 was going into flight tests, but in any case work started in earnest on the Heinkel fighter in the fall of the 1939.
	www.vectorsite.net /avme262.html (7017 words)

	German Military Aircraft Designations (1933-1945)
		In official RLM paperwork, aircraft model numbers were mostly prefixed by the number 8 and a dash (similarly, piston engines used designations with a "9-" prefix, while jet engines were prefixed with "109-").
		Designations are written without a dash between the manufacturer's code and the RLM number, because that's the most common practice.
		The designation Ju 187 was assigned by Junkers, and not by the RLM.
	www.designation-systems.net /non-us/germany.html (7781 words)

	World War II Glossary, Terms and Definitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fire which is designed to fill a volume of space or area rather than aimed specifically at a given target.
		aircraft whose main body consists of a single hull, or boat, that permits take-off or landing on water.
		design where the thickest point of the wing is located near the middle of the wing rather than near the leading edge, allows the air to flow over it in laminations, numerous even layers, one on top of the other.
	www.ww2guide.com /glossary.shtml (7240 words)

	RUSSIA'S RADICAL NEW FIGHTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The downside of the swept-forward wing design is in its elastic behavior, specifically the phenomenon of "aeroelastic divergence".
		The aircraft reached speeds as high as 404 mph in a dive, and confirmed the aeroelastic problems inherent in the swept-forward wing, with decreasing elevator forces during tight turns and pull outs from shallow dives.
		The F-35 is actually a family of three aircraft designed to replace aircraft in the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and the British military.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1050531/posts (6682 words)

	The Lenticular Reentry Vehicle, The truth - America's Debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The official designation for America’s nuclear flying saucer was the Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV).
		It was designed by engineers at the Los Angeles Division of North American Aviation, under a contract with the U.S. Air Force.
		They designed aircraft and one of them was a flying disc and this technology was divided up between the Soviets and the U.S. after the war.
	www.americasdebate.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=3119&view=old (1229 words)

	The Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe / Sturmvogel
		In modern aircraft, this is done by a high-torque electric motor or an equivalent, while in many earlier jet aircraft it was done using an explosive cartridge that kicked the turbine into motion.
		It was one of the first Soviet aircraft with an ejection seat, and had provisions for RATO boosters and a drag chute.
		These aircraft are authentic down to the rivets, one major exception being the use of modern General Electric J85 turbojets rather than the pathetically unreliable Jumo-004Bs.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avme262.html (6844 words)

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