Blohm und Voss
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Pre-1950 Narrative
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Aircraft Types
Blohm und Voss BV 138
A three-engined German maritime patrol flying boat of the Second World War, designed by Richard Vogt for Hamburger Flugzeugbau, the aircraft subsidiary of the Blohm und Voss shipbuilding firm. Nicknamed the "Flying Clog" for its short, flat-sided hull, it first flew in 1937 as the Ha 138, was completely redesigned after its prototypes proved unstable, and entered Luftwaffe service in 1940. The definitive C-1 flew long-range reconnaissance from French and Norwegian bases in support of the U-boat campaign, and others swept mines or carried troops. No complete example survives; a wreck raised from the Øresund is displayed at the Danish Technical Museum in Helsingør.
Blohm und Voss BV 141
A German reconnaissance aircraft of radical asymmetric layout, designed by Richard Vogt at Blohm und Voss to give its three-man crew the clearest possible view: the engine and tail rode in a boom to port while the crew sat in a glazed gondola to starboard. It flew well from February 1938, but it never entered production or service and no example survives.