High value 250 g/m2 silky luster paper poster at the size of DIN A3 (420x297 mm, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4'', DIN A2 and DIN A1 optional) with aircraft scheme and textual descriptions. All texts in german. All sizes larger than DIN A3 will be printed freshly. Therefore allow 1-2 weeks delivery time.
Background
Navy Aviaton are all flying forces of a country which belong to the
naval forces. They operate from land or from ships for the purposes of
the Navy.
While other nations recognized - in comparison to
others - early the importance of such forces (e.g. France 1888, Sweden
1903, Russia 1905, Italy 1908, Austria-Hungary 1911) the imperial German
Naval Aviation was rather late set to service May 3 1913.
With
the begin of WW-1 the imperial "Marine" (german for Navy) owed ca. 35
airplanes with Kiel-Holtenau as their central base. Marine airships
attacked England with bombs and delivered important air reconnaissance
results for the Marine. In the Baltic Sea steamers were modified as
mother-ships and operated to attack the coasts of the Baltic Sea with
airplanes.
During the Nazi-German re-militarisation starting in
1935 the german naval aviation was January 27 1939 - according to
Göhrings motto "everything that flies belongs to me" - incorporated in
the Luftwaffe. Accordingly poor and inefficient were Luftwaffe's "war at
sea" operations for the german Marine analyzing them after the war.
Because
of the missing prove of value and because the Marine had to operate
very often without the support of naval aviation during WW-II, the new
German Marine (Bundesmarine) got from its start 1956 again its own naval
aviation forces. Actually was the aviation division temporarily the
largest partial kommando of the fleet. During its hightime it owed 5
naval flying wings with up to 200 airplanes and helicopters. Uncommon
was the high number of up to 121 fighterbombers from the types Hawker
Sea Hawk Mk 100/101, Lockheed F-104 G Starfighter und Panavia PA200
Tornado. The Poeples Marine (Volksmarine) of the former German
Democratic Republic GDR received rather late in 1963 own naval aviation
forces.
Since the reunification of Germany in 1990 the naval
aviation forces, which included at that time also the Volksmarine units,
have been drastically reduced. Until 2005 all remaining fighterbomber
were given to the Luftwaffe, and their flying wings disbanded. Naval
Aviation Wing 1 (MFG-1) in 1993 and MFG-2 in 2005. The Flotilla of the
Naval Flyers was set out of service June 30 2006 and the remaining wings
put directly under the Fleetkommando.
In the course of a general
realignment of the german armed forces all naval flying forces were
concentrated on Nordholz airbase near Bremerhaven and October 8 2012 the
Kommando of the Naval Flyers was redeployed. Only Two MFGs
(Marineflieger Geschwader) remained. One is MFG-3 "Graf Zeppelin" which
is responsible for the base Nordholz and equipped with 8 long distance
sea surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft P-3C "Orion" and two Do-228
for the fight against sea pollution through ships. The second one is
MFG-3 which operates the on-board helicopters and is responsible for
search and rescue operations on and off sea.