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Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg rose to the challenge and founded an aircraft factory, with the intent to build long-range passenger seaplanes for Deutsche Luft Hansa.
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The Blohm & Voss BV 141 is unusual in being asymmetrical.
Blohm + Voss ( also shown historically as Blohm & Voss ), is a German shipbuilding and engineering works.
Blohm & Voss in 1877
It was founded on April 5, 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a general partnership named Blohm & Voss ( Blohm und Voss English: " Blohm and Voss ").
Blohm & Voss, which had until then specialized in shipbuilding, also began to design and build aircraft for use by both the German state airline, pre-war Deutsche Luft Hansa, and the air-force, Luftwaffe.
The aeronautical section of the company was named Hamburger Flugzeugbau, therefore the first planes it produced had the code " Ha ", but in September 1937 the aviation subsidiary was renamed Abteilung Flugzeugbau der Schiffswerft Blohm & Voss which was later replaced by " BV ".
From July 1944 to April 1945 Blohm & Voss used inmates of its own concentration subcamp at its shipyard in Hamburg-Steinwerder.
From 1933 to 1945, Blohm & Voss also operated the Hamburger Flugzeugbau aircraft company.
Although initially given the factory code Ha ( for the factory's official name ), the link with Blohm & Voss shipyards proved too strong and therefore the early aircraft designs were called " Blohm & Voss, type Ha ..." followed by the design number.
* Blohm & Voss BV 40 glider interceptor
* Blohm & Voss Ha 135 Two seat single engine sports biplane 1933
* Blohm & Voss Ha 136 experimental single seat single engine low wing advanced trainer
* Blohm & Voss Ha 137 prototype dive bomber
* Blohm & Voss BV 138 military patrol flying-boat ( early versions designated as Ha 138 )
* Blohm & Voss Ha 139 long-range seaplane
* Blohm & Voss Ha 140 torpedo bomber seaplane ( prototype )
* Blohm & Voss BV 141 reconnaissance ( asymmetric )
* Blohm & Voss BV 142 reconnaissance + transport
Blohm and Voss
It has become a media and industrial centre, with plants and facilities belonging to Airbus, Blohm + Voss and Aurubis.
ThyssenKrupp announced in December 2011 that it had agreed the sale of Blohm + Voss to British investment company STAR Capital Partners, pending regulatory approval.
The company's logo is a simple dark blue rectangle with rounded corners bearing the white letters " Blohm + Voss ".
Blohm and shipyards
Although Hamburger Flugzeugbau re-emerged after the war and, under different names and ownerships, continued to build aircraft until the present day, this company has no more ties to the Blohm & Voss shipyards.
A. G. „ Weser ” was one of the great German manufacturers of warships, besides Blohm & Voß, the imperial shipyards in Kiel, Danzig and Wilhelmshaven, which later became Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, and Schichau Shipyard Danzig.
Originally established in July 1933 as a subsidiary of the Blohm & Voss shipyards, it has managed to survive under different names as part of different consortia from its German national socialist roots to its present day form as part of the Airbus / European aerospace program.
She was built by German shipyards Blohm & Voss.
Blohm and Hamburg
Flugboots from Hamburg: An outline history of Blohm und Voss flying-boats Air Enthusiast No. 82 July / August 1999 pp42 – 48
A typical example of this activity by the allies was the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, where explosive demolition was still taking place as late as 1949.
* Palmyra, steel full-rigged ship built in 1889 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.
In addition to HDW, Blohm + Voss in Hamburg as well as Nordseewerke at Emden are also subsidiaries of TKMS.
In 1938, the sail ship Mircea was built in Hamburg by the Blohm & Voss shipyard as a training vessel for the Romanian Navy.
* SS Wittekind ( later renamed Iroquois and Freedom )-A passenger liner, originally built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, in 1894, but substantially rebuilt by Wigham Richardson six years later.
Blohm and founded
The Technique was founded in 1911 ; its first issue was published on November 17, 1911 by editors Albert Blohm and E. A.
Blohm and aircraft
* Blohm & Voss BV 237 A single seat single engine asymmetric layout ground attack aircraft project development of the Bv 141
* Blohm & Voss BV 238 flying-boat ( prototype ), the single largest Axis aircraft design of the war years to fly
A couple of years later however, the Fieseler aircraft factory in Halle became an independent aircraft manufacturer under the name of Flugzeugbau Halle and by orders of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, Hamburger Flugzeugbau was renamed Blohm & Voss Flugzeugbau and given the company designation BV, so the old designation Ha could now go to the new Halle factory.
The largest flying boat of the war was the Blohm & Voss BV 238, which was also the heaviest plane to fly during World War II and the largest aircraft built and flown by any of the Axis Powers.
File: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1980-117-01, Aufklärungsflugzeug Blohm-Voß BV 141. jpg | Blohm & Voss BV 141 aircraft
* Blohm & Voss BV 238, flying-boat ( prototype ), largest Axis military aircraft design to fly
*" wing " – a handful of very large aircraft, such as the Messerschmitt Me 323 and the Blohm & Voss BV 222, had manned turrets in the wings
Blohm and factory
The Blohm & Voss BV 141, 1942An unofficial part of the intentions for the new factory however was that it would also be ready to compete in every military contract the, then still clandestine, Luftwaffe would ask for, either with its own designs or as a subcontractor.
Blohm and with
Today Blohm + Voss is ( along with Howaldtswerke at Kiel and Nordseewerke at Emden ) a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
* Blohm & Voss BV P. 111-A design similar to the 237, except that it was a flying boat with three engines.
* Blohm & Voss BV P. 170-A 1942 design with three engines on the forward wing with the cockpit.
In May 1969, the new company merged with Blohm + Voss, becoming Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm ( MBB ).
* 1986: with David Suzuki and Hans Blohm, Sciencescape: The Nature of Canada ( Oxford University Press ) ISBN 0-19-540528-5
The core of the fleet was reformed with the retirement of all the World War II era Fletcher and Gearing class destroyers and their replacement with the MEKO 360 and 140 classes designed by the German shipyard Blohm + Voss.
After garnering a solid fanbase throughout the Midwest — including shows with Alkaline Trio, The Mr. T Experience, and Superdrag — The Benjamins were interviewed for an online zine by a fan named Jared Blohm at a concert at the Rock ' n ' Roll High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Originally known as Roland MX and later as Jason the standard twin launcher ( without search radar ) with two below-decks 8-round reloading drums could be installed on a standard sized module that was featured in several proposed Blohm & Voss MEKO frigate proposals of the 1970s.
* Blohm & Voss BV P. 207. 03 Single Seat Pusher Fighter, with information about Visconti
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