• Richthofen chats with Jasta 10 Oblt. Hans Klein during the First Fighter Competition at Adlershof, near Berlin, January 1918. The purpose of the competition was to have airplane manufacturers submit new designs to be demonstrated and then test flown by combat pilots, with the goal of developing and securing a production order to provide the best fighter possible for Germany. Although present in an official and military capacity, several candid photographs taken during the competition show Richthofen engaged, relaxed, and smiling. (Greg Vanwyngarden) (picture source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen - Volume 2, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016)
  • (L-R) Löwenhart, Hptm. Bruno Loerzer (Jasta 26), Ricchthofen, Hptm. Curt Schwarzenberger (Idflieg staff officer), Klein during the First Fighter Competition at Adlershof, Berlin, January 1918. (picture source: Inside the victories of Manfred von richthofen - Volume 2, James F. Miller, Aeronaut Books, 2016)
  • MvR at Adlershof. (picture source: General internet search)

Richard Wenzl speaks about “typenprüfungen” in Adlershof

Event ID: 576

Categories: 

Testimonial
English
Richthofen, Beyond the legend of the Red Baron, Peter Kilduff, Arms and Armour, 1993

19 January 1918

52.433333, 13.516667
Berlin

Source ID: 33

Richthofen, Beyond the legend of the Red Baron, Peter Kilduff, Arms and Armour, 1993 p.  172 

ISBN: 1854091271

“These Typenprüfungen were an achievement of Richthofen, who was of the viewpoint that not just any old home-front pilot, most of all (not) one working for one of the aircraft companies, should be the man who determines what will be flown at the Front. Thus, representatives from all of the Jagdstaffeln at the Front came to these tests. The individual types were test-flown, (and) then the gentlemen agreed amongst themselves on which types were best suited at the moment…”

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