Author Topic: Interesting early German plane (Read 630 times)

polka · « **on:** January 05, 2004, 06:37:36 PM »

Hello,
I found this while browsing ebay. It looks to me like it could be a Rumpler. But was it being used after the first world war, or were swastikas used this early?

postcard

MiloMorai · « **Reply #1 on:** January 05, 2004, 07:02:45 PM »

Finnish markings????

Tarmac · « **Reply #2 on:** January 05, 2004, 08:40:23 PM »

Isn't the Von Rosen Cross usually straight up and down? A square, not a diamond orientation like the swastika?

Arlo · « **Reply #3 on:** January 05, 2004, 08:43:45 PM »

Those aren't Finnish markings. What is being portrayed on the wings are most definately Nazi swastikas. If this postcard is genuine and not some sort of retouched fake (even if it dates back to the thirties as claimed) I would say it's a late model WWI aircraft that may have been used for exhibitions or even basic flight training after the Nazi party came to power.

vorticon · « **Reply #4 on:** January 05, 2004, 09:35:57 PM »

why would i want to spend 18$ on a "authentic" photograph when i can get a copyright there on the site??? or is it some "culture" thing rich people use to feel superior???

thats one but ugly plane btw...puts the warthog to SHAME

GScholz · « **Reply #5 on:** January 05, 2004, 09:59:07 PM »

Why is it surprizing to see a plane from the '30s with swaztikas? The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was formed in 1923 (with Hitler in charge), and its forerunner the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Workers Party, abbreviated DAP) was formed in 1919. The Nazis used planes and airshows as a propaganda tool along with WWI fighter aces and famous pilots like Göring and Udet.

Shiva · « **Reply #6 on:** January 06, 2004, 12:09:38 AM »

Look like a Rumpler C.I; the lower wing shape is wrong for it to be a C.IV. If I had to guess, I'd say it was a trainer, pressed into service before Germany built more modern trainers.

Shiva · « **Reply #7 on:** January 06, 2004, 12:20:10 AM »

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Originally posted by GScholz
Con - "Then you conclude that Bush is Hitler!"

Actually, while Bush isn't Hitler, his grandfather (Prescott Bush) and great-grandfather (George Herbert Walker) supported him, albeit indirectly. A company they were partners in, the United Banking Corporation, was formed in a partnership with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen in 1926; Thyssen had been one of Hitler's major contributors and supporters since 1923. According to government documents, it was a clearing house for a number of Thyssen-controlled enterprises and assets, including as many as a dozen individual businesses. UBC also bought and shipped overseas gold, steel, coal, and U.S. Treasury and war bonds. On October 20, 1942, under authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the U.S. Congress seized UBC and liquidated its assets after the war.

So while Dubya may not be Hitler, his family has a history of business deals with the Nazis...

New Hampshire Gazette article

GScholz · « **Reply #8 on:** January 06, 2004, 01:04:59 AM »

Shiva, please keep the politics in the O'Club. My sig quote has nothing to do with Bush.

straffo · « **Reply #9 on:** January 06, 2004, 03:59:07 AM »

Can someone host the pict ?
Because the only think I have is :

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Tarmac · « **Reply #10 on:** January 06, 2004, 04:11:01 AM »

Can you see that?

straffo · « **Reply #11 on:** January 06, 2004, 04:18:37 AM »

yep , thank you !

is it a L.V.G. ?

mora · « **Reply #12 on:** January 06, 2004, 06:21:20 AM »

hmm... those svastikas look different than the ones in WW2 planes. Maybe it is indeed an early NSDAP show plane, maybe from '20s?

Wmaker · « **Reply #13 on:** January 06, 2004, 06:29:53 AM »

The plane is from Latvian Air Force.

Sakai · « **Reply #14 on:** January 06, 2004, 09:37:45 AM »

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Originally posted by Wmaker
The plane is from Latvian Air Force.

Actually, that aircraft was the Latvian Airforce.

Regards,

Sakai