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The website looks like being supported by Daimler, somehow - at least with pictures.

The Daimler factory at Sindelfingen would probably not exist today, had they not built their early training field there.

In the years 1914 and 1915, there was a growing request made by the military, for aviators.

The big German companies built such learning & training fields.

The AEG had one in Döberitz, and I wouldn't be asthonished to read, that Siemens also had their own field.

 

Kurt Jentsch describes that early learning phase he went through in 1915. He was at the airfield Döberitz.

A good read, by the way.

 

In Berlin-Staaken huge halls were constructed for building Luftschiffe ("Zeppelins"). When it became obvious,

that the enemy built better fighters, able to bring the "Zeppelins" down, the same company built the gigantic

Staaken Großflugzeuge.

After the war, the halls were used by Fritz Lang for his film "Metropolis". See here:

 

http://geierwally.info/Staaken/2.html

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Thanks, Duke! Maybe I sometimes "stumble" over such things, cause I often

use German search words and so may find other sites than English searchers.

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Hey, I had actually overlooked that, von Baur; thanks!

 

"Das Propellerblatt" is a German magazine made by enthusiasts about the aviation from 1900 - 1920.

I clicked on "Kontakt" and saw the members - and I recognise Michael Schmeelke, the man who had

compiled the great booklet "Das Kriegstagebuch der Jasta 12", after finding and working with one of

the Jasta's members, Viktor Schobinger.

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