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Hispano HA-200D Saeta

Hispano HA-200D Saeta (c/n 20/73, formerly in service with Ejército del Aire / the Spanish Air Force, D-IWMS of Messerschmitt Stiftung), departure from Neuburg air base, July 2025. In the late 1940s, with the beginning […]

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Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze

Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze (c/n 100406, formerly operated by Kriegsmarine / the German Navy), exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2025. The idea of using an aircraft to improve observation range of submarines […]

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Airbus H145M

Airbus H145M LUH SOF and Airbus H145M LUH SAR (c/n 20136 and c/n 20360, ´76+14´ and ´77+08´ of the German Armed Forces), rehearsal for flying displays at 2025 edition of Tag der Bundeswehr open doors […]

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Sikorsky H-34G

Sikorsky H-34G (c/n 58-1100, formerly PZ+464, QB+467, QA+470, PC+202 and 80+35 of Heeresfliegertruppe / the German Army Air Corps), static display during the 2025 edition of Tag der Bundeswehr open-doors event, Bückeburg, June 2025. In […]

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Jacob Ellehammer

Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer was born in 1871, in Bakkebølle, Denmark. He trained as a watchmaker, then served with the Royal Danish Navy before moving to Copenhagen, where he worked as a mechanic. In 1898, he […]

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Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1)

The German flying bomb, initially known as the Fieseler Fi 103 but then officially designated Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Vengeance Weapon No. 1), was developed in the early 1942 by Fritz Gosslau and Robert Lusser, who at […]

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LZ 129 Hindenburg

Rigid and semi-rigid airships first appeared in the late nineteenth century and were consistently developed in the following decades. Pioneers such as Alberto Santos-Dumont, Count von Zeppelin and Thomas Scott Baldwin transformed the dirigible from […]