#Blohm Und Voss

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Blohm und Voss BV 141 Asymmetrical Design Prototype. Germany, 1938.

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Blohm und Voss BV.141B-0

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De Schelde S.21, or what happens when you let shipyard make your planes

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Arsenal-Delanne 10, or "Tandem PZL P.11" (but French)

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Dornier Do.335 A-11/A-12

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning

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My favourite kind of planes are the ones that George Lucas would use for Star Wars

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Blohm und Voss BV 141 Asymmetrical Design Prototype. Germany, 1938.

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The Blohm und Voss Bv 222 V2 at Ilsvika, Trondheim, Norway after capture by Allied troops. 27 Aug 1945

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Zweiter Weltkrieg

Von 1941 bis 1945 wurden 28 U-Boote abgeliefert. Zu diesem Zweck war ein neues Werftgelände mit drei Helgen gebaut worden, das nach dem Krieg für den zivilen Schiffbau genutzt wurde, als das Unternehmen seinen Standort auf das neue Gelände verlegte. Ab Mitte 1943 wurden nur noch die bereits begonnenen Boote fertiggestellt, von denen das letzte im Januar 1945 abgeliefert wurde. Zusätzlich musste die FSG fünf bei Blohm & Voss in Hamburg begonnene Boote fertigstellen (U 1025 bis 1030, davon nur U 1025 noch in Dienst gestellt).

Wappen ist von den Merowingern

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-Preflighting a Blohm & Voss - BV 141. | Photo: P.K. Luftwaffe

Flightline: 60 - Blohm and Voss

Hamburger Flugzeugbau (lit. ‘Hamburg aircraft construction’) was a division of the Blohm & Voss shipbuilding company, whose owners wanted to move into building long-range flying boats for the German state airline Hansa. The company’s name was changed to Abteilung Flugzeugbau der Schiffswerft Blohm & Voss (“Aircraft Manufacturing Division of Blohm & Voss Shipbuilder”) in 1937, and the growing Nazi rearming campaign saw the former passenger plan manufacturer branch out into warplanes.

B&V’s most successful design for the Wehrmacht was the BV.138 Seedrache (‘Sea Dragon’), a trimotor seaplane used for maritime patrol and naval reconnaissance.

-A Blohm & Voss BV 138, seen on Siutghiol lake, near Constanta, in 1943. | Photo: Unknown

The BV.222 Wiking (‘Viking’) was a pre-war large flying boat passenger plane, but the 13 examples produced were pressed into service as a cargo transport and troop transport during the War.

-A BV.222 in flight. | Photo: Unknown

B&V is perhaps best well known for a large number of asymmetrical designs produced by chief designer Richard Vogt.

In 1937, the German Air Ministry – the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) – issued a specification for a single-engine reconnaissance aircraft with optimal visual characteristics. The preferred contractor was Arado with the Ar 198, but the prototype proved unsuccessful. The eventual winner was the Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu, even though its twin-boom design using two smaller engines did not match the requirement of a single engined aircraft. Blohm & Voss was not invited to participate, but pursued as a private venture the uniquely asymmetric BV 141. 

-BV.141 under construction at the Blohm + Voss plant. | Photo: Scholz

The crew compartment was set to starboard to provide the best view, as well as to counter roll forces from the single piston engine. The tail unit was similarly offset. Power came from a BMW 132N engine, though the prototypes were found to be underpowered. Later 141s were built with BMW 801s, and proved to be superior to the Fw.189, but competition with the Fw.190 for the BMW 801s capped production of the BV.141 at 28. A ground attack and dive-bomber variant, potentially augmented with a Jumo 004 jet engine, was studied as the Bv.237, but was not produced.

-Orthograph of the BV.237 showing the Jumo 004 mounting. | Illustration: Reichdreams #13: Asymmetric Planes

The Blohm & Voss P.111 was a back up design to the BV 138 sea plane. Whereas the fuselage was basically similar to the later-built BV 138, a long boom with a conventional tail unit was placed on the port side of the wing. Three Jumo 208 engines, each developing 1500 horsepower, were all mounted on the wing leading edge. A pontoon was located just outboard of the port engine, beneath the wing.

-Orthograph of the P.111. | Illustration: Wydawnictwo Militaria #64 BV 138

The BV P.178 dive-bomber had one Jumo 004B turbojet located under the wing to the starboard side of the fuselage. The pilot sat in a cockpit in the forward fuselage, with a large fuel tank located to the rear of the cockpit. Beneath the fuel tank there was a deep recession in which a SC 500 bomb could be carried within the fuselage, or a SC 1000 bomb which would protrude slightly out of the fuselage. Two solid-fuel auxiliary rocket engines extended from the rear, and may have possibly been used for take-off or for climbing after a dive-bombing attack. Two MG 151 15mm machine guns were located in the nose

The BV P.179 asymmetric fighter-bomber was developed from the BV P.177/BV.237, though it had a shorter wingspan and a single seat. The P.179 was powered by one BMW 801 14 cylinder radial engine. The cockpit was located in a nacelle to the starboard side of the fuselage, beneath which up to 500 kg (1100 lbs) of bombs could be carried. The main landing gear retracted outwards into the wingtips. Two MG 151/20 20mm cannon were the projected armament, and were located under the pilot’s position.

-Orthograph of the P.179. | Illustration: Luft46.com

BV P.194 was a series of designs for various mixed-propulsion asymmetrical aircraft, which were intended for diverse roles such as fighter, destroyer, dive bomber and reconnaissance. The designs all featured a BMW 801D on the main fuselage, and either a BMW 003 or Jumo 004 jet engine was mounted in the crew gondola, offset to starboard.

-A table of P.194 variants and color illustrations of hypothetical BV P.194 variants in squadron markings. | Illustration: luft46.com/Reichdreams Dossiers #13: Asymmetric Planes

Though not an asymmetrical design, the P.188 jet bomber was unique in that it had wings that were swept back half way along their length, then swept forwards to the tips. This design was expected to give good performance at both low and high speeds. The P.188 had tandem twin main landing gear along with outriggers to support the wings. The plane was to be powered by four Jumo 004C jets, and would have carried 2200lbs of bombs internally, or Hs 293C anti-ship missiles externally.

-Orthograph of the P.188. | Illustration: luft46.com

B+V ceased operations after the end of WW2, though it was reconstituted as Hamburger Flugzeugbau GmBH (HFB) in 1956 when Germany was freed from post-war restrictions. HFB mainly served as a subcontractor on programs like the Nord Noratlas, Transall C-160 and Lockheed F-104G Starfighter. Their only solo project was the HFB 320 Hansa Jet, a ten-seat business jet which featured a forward swept wing. The type was intended to compete with Lear Jet, but the General Electric CJ610 engines prevented it from flying from smaller fields, and the 320 was mainly limited to service with the West German Air Force, were it served as a VIP transport and as a trainer for ECM crews. The type was retired in 1994.

-German Air Force HFB 320 ECM with nose radome and additional aerials. At Air Tattoo International 1992. | Photo: Andrew Thomas

HFB merged with Messerschmitt-Bölkow to form Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), which in turn was taken over by Deutsche Aerospace (DASA) in September 1989, which has since been absorbed into the pan-European Airbus corporation.

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The battleship Bismarck under construction at the Blohm und Voss wharf.

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German Aircraft of the Second World War: Including Helicopters and Missiles :: Antony L. Kay & J. R. Smith

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Flying boat Blohm und Voss BV-138A. To the bow visible rare gun MG-204.

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1943 Noruega, Blohm und Voss Bv138 FH Seeaufklärungsgruppe 130 - Zbigniew Kolacha

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Blohm und Voss Bv-142 by Batman_60 Via Flickr: British "Valentine's" cigarette recognition/collector card.

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I mean, there's no way that they'd have worked, but just the fact that Blohm und Voss was thinking about tilt-wings/rotors shows how absolutely extra that company was. Pretty ballsy for a company founded in the Thirties to build flying boats.

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Blohm und Voss. BV 141, tactical reconnaissance aircraft, notable for its uncommon structural asymmetry. Although it performed well, it was never ordered into full-scale production, for reasons that included the unavailability of the preferred engine and competition from another tactical reconnaissance aircraft, the Focke-Wulf Fw 189.

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Blohm und Voss P210 - by HamzaLippisch