Luft Verkehrs Gesellschaft began December 1911 operating and constructing dirgibles but in early 1912 it began building Farmans under license; it also produced licensed Albatros fighters.
Ernst Heinkel was a designer from the firm's establishment in December 1911 to sometime in 1913, when he went to Albatros Werke AG. Franz Schneider was a designer with the firm between 1912-1916; other designers were Ehrhardt and Rethel.
By December 1912 the firm had completed first original design, a 2-seat reconnaissance biplane designed by Heinkel, that led to well over 1,000 being built in two series. Schneider designed two series of fighters; other designs were by Ehrhardt and Rethel. Postwar, Luft Verkehrs converted military products into civil aircraft.
Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. (English Wikipedia)
Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (French Wikipedia)
Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (German Wikipedia)
1920Dir28, 32, lists firm at Berlin-Johannisthal
Occasional patents were filed from Charlottenburg.[1]
(In the developing context of mass, and standardized, manufacturing, these planes, for instance were "ordered" simultaneously from both Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H. and Siemens-Schuckert Werke GmbH, in 1917.)
Sources
- Gunston, 1993, p191, 144, 271
- Gunston, 2005, p294-295, 212, 413
- SD187
- 1919AYB358, 360
- 1920Dir28, 32
Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H. was a German corporation, factoring, within our data, as "inventor", "applicant", and "assigned to".
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Patents associated with firm Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.- Patent AT-1911-53717 (English title: Suspension of nacelles for aircraft, Filing date: 1911-09-11, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent AT-1915-73588 (English title: Aircraft fuselage with observation openings, Filing date: 1915-06-14, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent AT-1915-73590 (English title: Fighter plane, Filing date: 1915-09-11, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent AT-1915-73591 (English title: Longitudinal stabilization for aircraft, Filing date: 1915-09-18, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent DE-1915-326209 (English title: Bracing for the sub-ceilings of biplanes and planes with more more than two pairs of wings, Filing date: 1915-05-01, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent DE-1917-326429 (Filing date: 1917-02-07, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent DK-1911-16094 (English title: Suspension of Gondolas for Aircraft, Filing date: 1911-09-11, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent FR-1912-433884 (English title: Improvements in display apparatus, Filing date: 1911-09-04, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent FR-1914-470261 (English title: Stabilization valves for aeroplanes, Filing date: 1914-03-30, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-04-01 Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H., Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent HU-1911-59552 (English title: For hanging aircraft baskets, Filing date: 1911-09-12, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent HU-1914-68283 (English title: LTA; airship; frame; construction, Filing date: 1969-12-31, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent HU-1915-70781 (English title: Possibly machine guns situated in front of propellers, Filing date: 1969-12-31, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent HU-1915-70782 (English title: Equipment for the discharge of firearms from aircraft, mainly airplanes, Filing date: 1969-12-31, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent HU-1915-76876 (English title: Odd translation, possibly monoplane, Filing date: 1969-12-31, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent HU-1916-76416 (Inventors: Franz Schneider, English title: Equipment for launching and simultaneous correction of the time of fire required by vertical or level swinging of the machine gun in the case of machine guns used on flying machines, Filing date: 1969-12-31, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent HU-1916-76997 (English title: Machinery and similar firearms for machinery and similar firearms on aeroplanes and similar vehicles, powered by the motor, Filing date: 1969-12-31, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent LU-1911-9200 (English title: Suspension for aircraft gondolas, Filing date: 1911-09-01, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent NO-1912-22466 (Inventors: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H., English title: Device for dismantling gondola in aeronautics (or modern usage "aerospace"), Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent US-1910-1013342 (Inventors: Romeo Wankmüller, English title: Means for signalling from airships and the like, Filing date: 1910-05-11, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent US-1911-1000865 (Inventors: Romeo Wankmüller, Filing date: 1911-02-09, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
- Patent US-1911-1005097 (Inventors: Romeo Wankmüller, Filing date: 1911-06-26, Applicant firm: Luft Verkehrs G.m.b.H.)
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Luft Verkehrs Gesellschaft (LVG), Luft Verkehrs, Luft Verkehrs GmbH, Luft-Verkehrs Gesellschaft G.-G.
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Germany
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| City
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Berlin-Johannisthal
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| Keywords
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airplane, biplane, airship, LTA, fuselage, military, nacelle
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1912
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| Key people
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Ernst Heinkel, Franz Schneider
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