The Bayerische Flugzeugwerke M 18 ( BFW M 18 ), (later known as Messerschmitt M 18 ) was an airliner , produced in Germany in the late 1920s.
11-613: (Redirected from M-18 ) M18 or M-18 may refer to: Aircraft [ edit ] Messerschmitt M 18 , an early German airliner Miles M.18 , a Miles aircraft Mooney M-18 Mite , a low-wing monoplane PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader , an agricultural and aerial-firefighting aircraft Firearms and military equipment [ edit ] M18 Claymore mine , an American anti-personnel landmine M18 Hellcat , an American tank destroyer used in World War II M18 smoke grenade ,
22-582: A Royal Naval Air Service Voisin III LAS in the vicinity of Cape Helles . On 4 February 1916, his victory was over a reconnaissance two-seater at Baba-Tepe , off Imbros . On 24 January 1918, Croneiss shot down a Sopwith over the Gulf of Saros . His fifth victory came on 23 May 1918, when he destroyed a Sopwith fighter . He was subsequently decorated with the Iron Cross First Class and
33-640: A Metropolitan Route in Cape Town, South Africa M18 (Johannesburg) , a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa M18 (Pretoria) , a Metropolitan Route in Pretoria, South Africa M18 (Port Elizabeth) , a Metropolitan Route in Port Elizabeth, South Africa List of M18 roads Other uses [ edit ] M18, a metric screw thread Messier 18 , an open star cluster in
44-544: A colored smoke grenade M18 recoilless rifle , a late-World War II recoilless rifle SIG Sauer M18 pistol, a compact, carry sized SIG Sauer P320 used by the United States armed forces Roads and highways [ edit ] M18 motorway (Great Britain) M18 motorway (Ireland) M-18 (Michigan highway) M18 (East London) , a Metropolitan Route in East London, South Africa M18 (Cape Town) ,
55-418: A metal structure. The design was praised in its day for the cleanness of its aerodynamics, lightness of construction, and economy of operation The first M 18 to enter service with NOBA was provided by Messerschmitt in exchange for a 49% share of the new company, and on 26 July it began commercial flights. NOBA's early successes enabled the company to place orders for additional examples of an improved model,
66-439: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Messerschmitt M 18 Designed at the request of Theodor Croneiss to supply his new airline venture which was to become Nordbayerische Verkehrsflug (NOBA), it was a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailskid undercarriage . The prototype was built of wood, although production examples would have
77-648: The M 18b . It would eventually purchase twelve of these, but manufacturing them would exceed the capacity of Messerschmitt's own small firm, leading to a merger with Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) in 1927. Following NOBA's reorganisation into DEVAG in 1931, a small number of a further-improved version, designated M 18d , were ordered, but the type was soon superseded by the similar but larger Messerschmitt M 20 . Data from Messerschmitt: an aircraft album, Flugzeug-Typenbuch 1936 General characteristics Performance Theodor Croneiss Oberleutnant Theodor Croneiss (18 December 1894 – 7 November 1942)
88-704: The Knight's Cross of the House Order of Hohenzollern in August 1918. Having survived the war as an Oberleutnant , Croneiss became a sporting aviator. He became director of a flying club that sponsored Willy Messerschmitt . Croneiss piloted one of Messerschmitt's early designs, the M-21, to win the designer a 60,000 Reichsmark prize. In 1928–1929, Croneiss won the East Prussia Flying Trophy with
99-621: The constellation Sagittarius M18 or M-18, Mara 18 , Central American street gang Hope Municipal Airport , Arkansas, United States (FAA location identifier: M18) A line of 18-volt power tools manufactured by Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation M18, a student club at the Bauhaus University, Weimar , Germany M18, a media content rating issued by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
110-448: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M18&oldid=1169810705 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
121-649: Was a World War I fighter pilot credited with five aerial victories. Croneiss was one of the German pilots assigned to duty with Germany's allies, the Ottoman Empire . As such, he was assigned to Feldflieger Abteilung 6 , which was also known as the Jasta Chanak Kale—;Turkei as early as late 1915 or early 1916. His first aerial victory came on 7 January 1916, when he downed a Farman bomber over El Sedd-ul-Bahr . The next day, he downed
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