Luftwaffe aircraft design community

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The Luftwaffe aircraft design community was the group of German engineers, aerodynamicists, and manufacturers responsible for developing military aircraft for Nazi Germany’s air force before and during World War II.

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instanceOf aeronautical engineering community
military-industrial complex component
activeDuring World War II
interwar period
associatedWithGovernment Third Reich
associatedWithIdeology Nazism
associatedWithProgram V-weapons development context
collaboratedWith Arado Flugzeugwerke
surface form: Arado

Blohm & Voss
Dornier aircraft
surface form: Dornier

Focke-Wulf
Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
surface form: Heinkel

Henschel & Sohn
surface form: Henschel

Junkers
Messerschmitt
country Nazi Germany
designed Arado Ar 234
Blohm & Voss BV 141
Dornier Do 17
Dornier Do 217
Focke-Wulf Fw 190
Focke-Wulf Ta 152
Heinkel He 111
Heinkel He 178
Heinkel He 280
Junkers Ju 87
Junkers Ju 88
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Messerschmitt Me 163
Messerschmitt Me 262
employedBy Reich Ministry of Aviation
surface form: Reichsluftfahrtministerium
field aeronautical engineering
aircraft design
military aviation technology
includesProfession aerodynamicists
aeronautical engineers
aircraft manufacturers
aircraft structural engineers
engine designers
test pilots
influenced Soviet jet aircraft development
post-war Allied aircraft design
linkedTo German rearmament
close air support aircraft development
fighter aircraft development for air superiority
strategic bombing doctrine of the Luftwaffe
location Germany
notableMember Alexander Lippisch
Ernst Heinkel
Hans von Ohain
Hugo Junkers
Kurt Tank
Walter Dornier
Wernher von Braun
Willy Messerschmitt
partOf Luftwaffe
pioneered early operational jet fighters
high-speed aerodynamics research
rocket-powered interceptor concepts
swept-wing research
responsibleFor development of Luftwaffe combat aircraft
integration of new propulsion technologies into aircraft
research in aerodynamics for military aircraft
subjectOf Allied exploitation of German aeronautical research
post-war technical intelligence programs such as Operation Paperclip
supervisedBy Reich Air Ministry
timePeriodEnd 1945
timePeriodStart early 1930s
usedTechnology all-metal stressed-skin airframes
jet engines
monoplane configurations
rocket propulsion

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Siegfried Günter partOf Luftwaffe aircraft design community
Hermann Pohlmann militaryBranch Luftwaffe aircraft design community
this entity surface form: Luftwaffe (as aircraft designer for its equipment)
Hermann Pohlmann usedBy Luftwaffe aircraft design community
this entity surface form: Luftwaffe (for his aircraft designs)
Tank militaryBranchServed Luftwaffe aircraft design community
subject surface form: Kurt Tank
this entity surface form: Luftwaffe (as aircraft designer via Focke-Wulf)