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Graf Zeppelin is launched, 8 December 1938.. After 1933, the Kriegsmarine began to examine the possibility of building an aircraft carrier. [1] Wilhelm Hadeler had been Assistant to the Professor of Naval Construction at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) for nine years when he was appointed to draft preliminary designs for an aircraft carrier in ...
Strasser did not live to see the end of the war. On 5 August 1918, [3] during a night raid against Boston, Norwich, and the Humber Estuary, Strasser's L 70 met a British reconnaissance D.H.4. [4] Pilot Major Egbert Cadbury and Gunner Major Robert Leckie shot down the L 70 just north of Wells-next-the-Sea on the Norfolk coast. None of the 23 men ...
German aircraft carrier Peter Strasser This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 00:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Started 1938, cancelled 1939. Proposed name was Peter Strasser. Flugzeugträger C German Navy: Graf Zeppelin: Fleet carrier — Cancelled 1938 before construction began. Flugzeugträger D German Navy: Graf Zeppelin: Fleet carrier — Cancelled 1938 before construction began. Foch French Navy: R99 Clemenceau: Fleet carrier CATOBAR: 1963–2000
Peter Strasser: 28,000 ton Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier, ... selected while under construction for conversion to an aircraft carrier, never completed;
Starting in the mid-1930s, the Reichsmarine began design studies for a new type of aircraft carrier to meet the requirements of the revitalized German fleet; by 1936, these concepts had developed into the Graf Zeppelin class, the first member of which was laid down for the renamed Kriegsmarine in December of that year.
The Ar 197 had its origin in the requirement for a fighter capable of operating from the planned (but never completed) German aircraft carriers Graf Zeppelin and Peter Strasser. The Ar 68H had been the first Arado aircraft to have a fully enclosed cockpit, and was selected as a base design for the Arado Ar 197.
Directed last raid on England on 6 August 1918, with KK Peter Strasser, Commander of the Navy Airship Department on board; intercepted and destroyed over North Sea by British de Havilland DH-4 flown by Major Egbert Cadbury with Captain Robert Leckie (later Air Vice-Marshal) as gunner. [61]