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| View Poll Results: Who was the best German Aircraft Designer? | |||
| Kurt Tank |     | 62 | 44.93% |
| Willy Messerschmitt |    | 45 | 32.61% |
| Ernst Heinkel |    | 10 | 7.25% |
| Hugo Junkers |    | 9 | 6.52% |
| Dornier Metallbau |    | 1 | 0.72% |
| Walter Blume |    | 0 | 0% |
| The Horton Brothers | | 7 | 5.07% |
| Henschel & Son | | 1 | 0.72% |
| Blohm und Voss | | 1 | 0.72% |
| Other: | | 2 | 1.45% |
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12-01-2008, 09:48 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Colorado, USA
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| Who was the better designer of German Aircraft? There are some famous names here, vote for the designer you like best. 
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12-01-2008, 10:25 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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| Kurt Tank for me...
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12-01-2008, 01:49 PM
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| Willy for me. I like two of Tank's designs but Willy developed a broader range of excellent aircraft.. |
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12-01-2008, 02:24 PM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| I am going to go with Willy as well, for the same reasons as Bill stated.
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12-01-2008, 02:42 PM
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| I'm going with Heinkel. His designteam came up with some exelent designs, He112, He100, He111, He177 (apart from the engines) etc. Willy made some brilliant designs, Bf109 and Me262, but that was about it. Too bad Heinkel didn't get a chance with his fighter designs, could have been at least as good as the bf109.
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12-01-2008, 03:42 PM
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| Excellent polling idea. |
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12-01-2008, 03:44 PM
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| Kurt Tank for me. A very impressive CV with the transatlantic Condor, FW 189, FW 58, Biplanes, Trainers, Flying boats, Jets and Fighters. Test pilot and designer. Half the poll is manufactures rather than designers. So is it which firm designed(and/or manufactured) the best planes or who was the best chief designer?
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12-01-2008, 05:07 PM
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| A couple of days ago I saw a photo that expressed my thoughts about Willy Messerschmitt perfectly...  Need to say more? Like Bill said, Messerschmitt's company was responsible for a wide variety of very advanced and successfull aircraft designs, even though Messerschmitt himself was less and less engaged in the actual design work, his philosophy was still there. Also I can't really ignore his skyrocketing career and the heritage he left behind (the Messerschmitt foundation and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm).
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12-01-2008, 05:21 PM
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| Kurt Tank for me. Excellent range of aircraft..... Willy had some good aircraft, [4 or 5] but lots of failures...... Failures: me155, bf161, bf162, bf163, me209, me209-II, me261, [3 built] me264, [2 built] me265, me309, me310 [1 built], me321, me328, me334, me409, me509, me510, me600, me609. Was the Komet and Gigant successful ? I think they were both death-traps.... Charles
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12-01-2008, 05:45 PM
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 | Kurfust do you have any more photos of that airshow? I've been longing to see those two guys gracing the skies together since for ever! 
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12-01-2008, 07:03 PM
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| Nope I found them on a discussion board a while ago, they are not mine.. :/ Try googling the file name, perhaps it gives something.
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12-01-2008, 10:25 PM
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| I'm with Marcel on this one, Heinkel had some notable designs that were world firsts...if politics and circumstances hadn't have intervened in a few cases (mainly being on Udet's bad side), there's no telling how things would have turned out... I think my favorite Heinkel would be the He280 
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12-02-2008, 01:43 AM
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| Guys remember that just because an a/c bears the name of the company owner doesn't mean he was the designer of the aircraft 
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12-02-2008, 09:15 AM
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| While I do prefer the 109 as an aircraft, and Messerschmitt as a designer, Kurt Tank does deserve some considerable credit. I think it's interesting that 190 aces amassed a huge number of kills in a relatively short time. Granted, there were masters of the 109, but perhaps the 190 was more "inexperienced pilot" friendly and I think Tank deserves almost as much credit. His Fw-200 must also be credited as being possibly one of the best maritime patrol aircraft of the war. So, in other words, while I love Messerschmitt, Tank deserves a darn close honorable mention. Another interesting note: Kurt Tank helped test-fly his own designs.
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12-02-2008, 11:28 AM
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