Riesenflugzeuge der Zeppelin-Werke in Berlin-Staaken bei Spandau (1915-1917)
Uploaded on: 18.07.2013 | Duration: 12:00
Production company
Messter Film GmbH (Berlin)
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Source
Bundesarchiv
Category
Spiel- und Dokumentarfilme
R-plane „R VI“ (constructed under licence by the Gotha wagon factory) is pushed out of the airship hangar in Staaken; the crew gets into the aeroplane; the motors in the gondolas are started up; preparations for take-off; civilian passengers board with hand-luggage; a box is loaded into the aeroplane from an open car; the „R VI“ takes off; pilots in the open cockpit during the flight (filmed from the right motor gondola); aerial footage of Potsdam with the new Palais, the Havel bay, observatory and Church of the Holy Spirit ; landing on an airfield.
