Messerschmitt AG was a famous German aircraft manufacturer, known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, notably the Bf 109 and Me 262. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including A fighter aircraft is a Military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other Aircraft, as opposed to a Bomber, which is designed WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The company survived in the post-war era, undergoing a number of mergers and changing its name from Messerschmitt before being bought by DASA in 1989, now part of EADS. DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG or DASA, was the former aerospace subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG (later DaimlerChrysler) from 1989 The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS NV ( EADS) is a large European aerospace corporation formed by the merger on July 10,

Contents 1 Background 2 Reincarnation 3 World War II 4 Post-war 5 Return to aviation 6 Aircraft 7 References 8 External links

Background

In February 1916 the south German engineering company MAN AG and several banks purchased the unprofitable aircraft builder Otto-Flugzeugwerke, starting a new company Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG. MAN AG is a German engineering Company based in Munich. MAN is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment Gustav Otto Flugzeugwerke, Founded in 1910 by Gustav Otto, was one of the pioneering aircraft producers at the turn of the 19th Century The articles of association were drawn up on February 19 and 20, and completed on March 2, 1916. Details of the company were recorded in the Commercial Register with an equity capital of RM 1,000,000 on March 7, 1916. 36% of the capital was provided by the Bank für Handel und Industrie, Berlin, 30% by MAN AG and 34% by Hermann Bachstein, Berlin. The first Chairman of the Board of Management was Peter Eberwein, who had previously been employed at Albatros Flugzeugwerke. Albatros-Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer that supplied the German airforces during World War I.

Due to the need for immediate aircraft production for the ongoing war, there was no time for development work and BFW manufactured aircraft under license from the Albatros Flugzeugwerke. Albatros-Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer that supplied the German airforces during World War I. Within a month of being set up the company was able to supply aircraft to the war ministries of Prussia and Bavaria. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 However, major quality problems were encountered at the start. The German air crews frequently complained about the serious defects that appeared in the first machines from BFW. The same thing had happened with the aircraft from the predecessor company run by Gustav Otto. It was only organizational changes and more intensive supervision of the assembly line that succeeded in resolving these problems by the end of 1916. BFW then started turning out over 200 aircraft a month, with their workforce growing to 3,000 and becoming one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in Bavaria.

The end of the war hit BFW hard, since military demand for aircraft collapsed. The company’s management were forced to look for new products with which to maintain their position in the market. Since WWI aircraft were largely built from wood to keep their weight down, BFW was equipped with the very latest joinery plant. What is more, the company still held stocks of materials sufficient for about 200 aircraft, and worth 4. 7 million reichsmarks. It therefore seemed a good idea to use both the machinery and the materials for the production of furniture and fitted kitchens. In addition, from 1921 onwards, the company manufactured motorcycles of its own design under the names of Flink and Helios. Flink, sometimes referred to as The Misadventures of Flink, is a 2D scrolling platform game developed by Psygnosis reliant on the then still fairly new CD-ROM In Greek mythology the Sun was personified as Helios (ˈhiliˌɑs ( Ἥλιος Latinized as Helius)

In the autumn of 1921 the Austrian financier Camillo Castiglioni first announced his interest in purchasing BFW. Camillo Castiglioni ( October 22, 1879 – December 18, 1961) was an Austrian financier and banker and was the wealthiest man in Central While most of the shareholders accepted his offer, MAN AG initially held on to its shareholding in BFW. But Castiglioni wanted to acquire all the shares. He was supported in this by BMW’s Managing Director Franz Josef Popp who, in a letter to the chairman of MAN, described BFW as a “dead factory, which possesses no plant worth mentioning, and consists very largely of dilapidated and unsuitable wooden sheds situated in a town that is extremely unfavorable for industrial activities and whose status continues to give little cause for enthusiasm”. Apparently Popp was still in close contact with Castiglioni and was perhaps even privy to the latter’s plans for merging BMW with BFW. It was probably in the spring of 1922 that Castiglioni and Popp persuaded MAN to give up its shares in BFW, so that now the company belonged exclusively to Castiglioni. Then in May of the same year, when the Italian-born investor was able to acquire BMW’s engine business from Knorr-Bremse AG, nothing more stood in the way of a merger between the aircraft company BFW and the engine builders BMW.

Reincarnation

Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) (Bavarian Aircraft Works) was reformed in 1926 in Augsburg, Bavaria when Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH was changed into a joint-stock company. Augsburg is an independent City in the south-west of Bavaria. Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 In the early stages, BMW AG held a stake in this company and was represented by Josef Popp, who held a place on the Supervisory Board. Franz Josef Popp (1886 in Vienna; 1951 in Stuttgart) was one of three men responsible for the founding of BMW AG and the First General Director of BMW AG ^[1]

Willy Messerschmitt joined the company in 1927 as chief designer and engineer, and formed a design team. Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt ( June 26, 1898 &ndash September 15, 1978) was a legendary German Aircraft

One of the first designs, the Messerschmitt M20, was a near-catastrophe for the designer and the company. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Many of the prototypes crashed, one of them killing Hans Hackman, a close friend of Erhard Milch, the head of Lufthansa and the German civil aviation authorities. Erhard Milch ( March 30, 1892 &ndash January 25, 1972) was a German Field marshal who oversaw the development of the Milch was upset by the lack of response from Messerschmitt and this led to a lifelong hatred towards him. Milch eventually cancelled all contracts with Messerschmitt and forced BFW into bankruptcy in 1931. However, the German re-armament programs and Messerschmitt's friendship with Hugo Junkers prevented a stagnation of the careers of him and BFW, which was started again in 1933. Hugo Junkers ( 3 February 1859 - 3 February 1935) was an innovative German Engineer, as his many Patents Milch still prevented Messerschmitt's takeover of the BFW until 1938, hence the designation "Bf" of early Messerschmitt designs.

Messerschmitt promoted a concept he called "light weight construction" in which many typically separate load-bearing parts were merged into a single reinforced firewall, thereby saving weight and improving performance. The first true test of the concept was in the Bf 108 Taifun sports-plane, which would soon be setting all sorts of records. The Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun was a German single-engined sports and touring aircraft developed by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (Bavarian Aircraft Works Based on this performance the company was invited to submit a design for the Luftwaffe's 1935 fighter contest, winning it with the Bf 109, based on the same construction methods. ( German 'luftvafe is a generic German term for an Air force. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

From this point on Messerschmitt became a favorite of the Nazi party, as much for his designs as his political abilities and the factory location in southern Germany away from the "clumping" of aviation firms on the northern coast. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German BFW was reconstituted as Messerschmitt AG on July 11, 1938, with Willy Messerschmitt as chairman and managing director. Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The renaming of BFW resulted in the company's RLM designation changing from Bf to Me for all newer designs after the acquisition date. The Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM had a system for aircraft designation which was an attempt by the aviation bureaucracy of the Third Reich to standardize Existing types, such as the Bf 109 and 110, retained their earlier designation in official documents, although sometimes the newer designations were used as well, most often by subcontractors. In practise, all BFW/Messerschmitt aircraft from 108 to 163 (not the same plane as the Me 163) were prefixed Bf, all later types with Me.

World War II

During the war Messerschmitt became a major design supplier, their Bf 109 and Bf 110 forming the vast majority of fighter strength for the first half of the war. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Several other designs were also ordered, including the enormous Me 321 Gigant transport glider, and its six-engined follow on, the Me 323. The Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant was a large German cargo Glider aircraft developed during the Second World War. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout However for the second half of the war, Messerschmitt turned almost entirely to jet-powered designs, producing the World's first operational jet fighter, the Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”). specific --->A jet engine is a Reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of Fluid to WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout They also produced the DFS-designed Me 163 Komet, the first rocket-powered design to enter service. The Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug, or DFS (German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A rocket or rocket vehicle is a Missile, Aircraft or other Vehicle which obtains Thrust by the reaction of the

Messerschmitt had its share of poor designs as well; the Me 210, designed as a follow-on to the 110, was a disaster that almost led to the forced dissolution of the company. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The design problems were eventually addressed in the Me 410 Hornisse, but only small numbers were built before all attention turned to the 262. The Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse ("Hornet" was a Luftwaffe Heavy fighter and Schnellbomber of Late in the war, Messerschmitt also worked on a heavy "Amerikabomber" design, the Me 264, which flew in prototype form but was too late to see combat. The Amerika Bomber project was an initiative of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the Nazi Germany Air Ministry to obtain a long-range Bomber aircraft WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

Post-war

After World War II, the company was not allowed to produce aircraft. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including One alternative the company came up with was the three wheeled motorcycle/bubble car or Kabinenroller (cabinscooter) KR175 / KR200. MotorCycle is the title of a 1993 album by Rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records. For the modified American sedans also called "bubbles" see Hi-Riser (automobile. The Messerschmitt KR175 Bubble car (1953–1955 was the first vehicle built by Messerschmitt under its 1952 agreement with Fritz Fend. The Messerschmitt KR200, or Kabinenroller (Cabin Scooter was a three-wheeled Bubble car designed by the aircraft engineer Fritz Fend and produced According to an urban legend, it was made with old aeroplane parts. An urban legend or urban myth is a form of modern Folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them This is not true but as it was designed by an aircraft engineer, Fritz Fend, it is probably no coincidence it looks somewhat like an aeroplane. Fritz Fend ( April 14, 1920 &ndash November 22 2000) was an aeronautical engineer A well known appearance of this car is in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, to great effect, however this vehicle may be at best, a kr175/200 hybrid with additional non production parts added for the film. Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American -born British Writer, Filmmaker, Animator and member Brazil is a 1985 Dystopian Black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. The front fender is very similar to one used on a kr 200 that featured in the cult Swedish TV series Kenny Starfighter(1997). Kenny Starfighter is a Swedish Television Mini-series from 1997 that follows the titular hero as he fights against the evil lord Dr Cousin Itt drives a white one in The Addams Family, and a red KR200 was owned by the singer Elvis Presley. Cousin Itt is a member of the fictional Addams Family in the 1964 Television series. The Addams Family are a group of fictional characters created by American Cartoonist Charles Addams.

The cars were actually made by Fend's own company in the Messerschmitt works at Regensburg and Willy Messerschmitt had very little to do with the vehicles other than ruling that they carried his name. Fend's aircraft influence certainly showed itself in his desire to achieve a light yet stiff frame with low wind resistance from the tandem seating with aerodynamic steel body. This resulted in a surprisingly high performance from 175 and later 200cc single cylinder two-stroke engines. Some would say that his ultimate achievement with the Kabinenroller was the four-wheeled TG500 or 'Tiger' with a twin cylinder 490cc engine capable of higher speeds and sports car handling. However, there is little doubt that the best developed and most successful was the three-wheeled KR200. Production of the KR200 ceased in 1964.

The rear-mounted engine of the 3-wheeler was a 191 cc Sachs single-cylinder twostroke, blast-cooled. A novel feature was the Siba Dynastart having both forward and reverse contact-breakers giving the car four forward and four reverse gears via the enclosed oilbath secondary chain. With handlebar-steering the control in a fast reverse gear, say at about 35 mph, was quite manageable. The general handling was good but the brakes were a weak point; a non-factory conversion to front 8-inch hydraulic brakes was marketted in Britain. For use on the UK roads the side-hinged Perspex canopy still lifted & tilted to the right. The rear seat was actually a small bench-type able to hold an adult and a child. Not many were sold in Britain due to the high price; only two of the 4-wheeled variants were ever imported (BM-S).

Less known is the fact that the Messerschmitt factory also produced prefabricated houses, which were designed as "self-building-kits" mainly based on an alloy frame work.

Return to aviation

On 6 June 1968, Messerschmitt AG merged with the small civil engineering and civil aviation firm Bölkow, becoming Messerschmitt-Bölkow. Events 1508 - Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Bölkow was a German Aircraft manufacturer based in Stuttgart and later Ottobrunn. The following May, the firm acquired Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB), the aviation division of Blohm + Voss. Hamburger Flugzeugbau is a Hamburg - Finkenwerder based aircraft company Blohm + Voss is a German shipbuilding and engineering works It was founded on April 5, 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a The company then changed its name to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB). Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB was a German Aerospace company formed as the result of several mergers in the late 1960s In 1989 MBB was taken over by Deutsche Aerospace AG (DASA), which was renamed Daimler-Benz Aerospace in 1995. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG or DASA, was the former aerospace subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG (later DaimlerChrysler) from 1989 DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG or DASA, was the former aerospace subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG (later DaimlerChrysler) from 1989 The former DASA now operates as "EADS Germany". ^[2]

Aircraft

Model	Name	First flight	Remarks
M17
M18
M20		1928	passenger transport
Bf 108	Taifun (Typhoon)	1934	trainer & transport
Bf 109		September, 1935	fighter, bomber interceptor; later versions as Me 109
Bf 110		12 May, 1936	twin-engine heavy fighter, night fighter
Me 155		not built	high-altitude fighter, developed from Bf 109; not built, project transferred to Blohm + Voss as the Bv 155
Bf 161			heavy fighter; prototype
Bf 162	Jaguar	1937	schnellbomber (fast bomber) based on Bf 110
Bf 163			STOL reconnaissance aircraft; prototype built by Weserflug AG
Me 163	Komet (Comet)	early 1941	rocket-powered interceptor
Me 209		1 August, 1938	designed to break world air speed record; attempted fighter conversion failed
Me 209-II		1943	fighter; update to Bf 109, never produced
Me 210		September, 1939	twin-engine heavy fighter; also used for reconnaissance
Me 261	Adolfine	1941	designed as long-range record-setter; three built and used for reconnaissance
Me 262	Schwalbe (Swallow)	18 July, 1942	twin-engine fighter & attack aircraft; first operational jet-powered fighter
Me 263		never flown	rocket-powered interceptor; advanced development of Me 163
Me 264	Amerika (America)	23 December, 1942	strategic bomber, developed under Amerika Bomber program
Me 265		not built	attack aircraft, proposed
Me 309		July, 1942	fighter; advanced but underperforming design meant to replace Me 109
Me 310		1 built	pressurized Me 210 development, proposed
Me 321		7 March, 1941	large transport glider
Me 323	Gigant (Giant)	Fall, 1941	large transport aircraft; powered development of Me 321
Me 328		Fall, 1943	pulsejet-powered selbstopfer or parasite fighter
Me 329			heavy fighter-bomber; unpowered glider only
Me 334			tailless fighter, similar to Me 163 (development abandoned)
Me 409	Zwilling (Twin)		heavy fighter; combined two Me 209 fuselages into one airframe, similar to the Me 109Z and Heinkel He 111Z (development abandoned)
Me 410	Hornisse (Hornet)	1943	twin-engine heavy fighter and fast bomber; development of Me 210
Me 509		not built	fighter, based on Me 309, with engine located behind cockpit as in P-39 Airacobra
Me 510		not built	twin-engine fighter-bomber; Me 410 derivative
Me 600	Bussard (Buzzard)		rare, provisional designation for Arthur Sack A. The M17 was a German Sports plane, a single engine high-wing monoplane WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1928: Events January January 6 - 8 - Lt Christian Schilt The Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun was a German single-engined sports and touring aircraft developed by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (Bavarian Aircraft Works This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1934: Events January January 10 - 11 - A flight of six US WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1935: Events January January 11 - 12 – Amelia Earhart WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. 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Me 609			heavy fighter; combined two Me 309 fuselages into one airframe, as with Me 109Z and Me 409 (development abandoned)
P.1101		not flown	prototype swing-wing jet interceptor; later inspired Bell X-5

References

External links

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