Autopilot, by Dipl.-Ing. Volker Lieste & Dr. A. Baier

[Richard T Eger]

This webpage contains a concise useful history of Siemens' involvement with autopilots and a listing with descriptions of Siemens' autopilot systems. Two systems, the K4ü and K12, are illustrated with operational diagrams. The webpage address is:

http://www.uni-erlangen.de/docs/FAU/fakultaet/natIII/geol_appl/autopilo.htm


Regards,
Richard



[This message has been edited by Richard T Eger (edited 25 March 2002).]

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'Clock High!:


Dipl.-Ing. Volker Leiste
Siemens Aviation in WWII
Thu Mar 7 10:46:24 2002
194.138.37.43

Just an information :
the unknown history of Siemens in the field of Aviation will be presented at the Homepage of "Förderverein Wissenschaftsmuseum Erlangen".
http://www.uni-erlangen.de/docs/FAU/fakultaet/natIII/geol_appl/museum1.htm

Sorry, this page is availiable at the moment in german languge only.

This page will inform briefly about Siemens Airliners (WWI) and Siemens&Halske aeroengines (e.g. "323 Fanir" with 1000 HP).

Furthermore a brief description of the Siemens-Autopilotsystems in WWII ( used in He 11, Ju 52, Ju 90, FW 200 Condor, Do 17, Do 24, FW 190, Ta 152 etc. ) will be added in a few days.

Regards
Dipl.-Ing. Volker Leiste

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'Clock High!:

Dipl.-Ing. Volker Leiste
Siemens Aviation in WWII
Thu Mar 7 10:46:24 2002
194.138.37.43

Just an information :
the unknown history of Siemens in the field of Aviation will be presented at the Homepage of "Förderverein Wissenschaftsmuseum Erlangen".

http://www.uni-erlangen.de/docs/FAU/fakultaet/natIII/geol_appl/museum1.htm

Sorry, this page is availiable at the moment in german languge only.

This page will inform briefly about Siemens Airliners (WWI) and Siemens&Halske aeroengines (e.g. "323 Fanir" with 1000 HP).

Furthermore a brief description of the Siemens-Autopilotsystems in WWII ( used in He 11, Ju 52, Ju 90, FW 200 Condor, Do 17, Do 24, FW 190, Ta 152 etc. ) will be added in a few days.

Regards
Dipl.-Ing. Volker Leiste

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Sergio Luis dos Santos
Nice to see the first results !
Thu Mar 7 13:51:20 2002
200.244.150.4

Those Siemens aircrafts photos are very fine !

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Dipl.-Ing. Volker Leiste
Siemens Aircraft
Thu Mar 7 14:37:03 2002
194.138.37.43

Thanks Sergio !

These are only a few pictures out of a series of pictures from the period 1914 - 1918 I discoverd in the archive of Siemens Transformer Works in Nueremberg.
Some autopiltot pictures will follow today or tomorrow . Crazy to imagine, that some 60,000 autopilots/Kursssteuerungen haven been built by Siemens LGW during WWII for Deutsche Luftwaffe....

Regards
Volker

[Richard T Eger]

Andy Fletcher
Autopilot factory
Thu Mar 7 16:04:57 2002
12.151.162.68

Hi Volker,

Could you list all the a/c types that autopilots from the Siemens LGW factory were produced for. What was/is the location of the factory and what was its name during WWII.

Regards

Andy Fletcher

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Dipl.-Ing. Volker Leiste
Siemens Autopilot-Systems
Fri Mar 8 09:24:37 2002
194.138.37.43

Dear Andy,

a table showing all autopilot-systems and variants in detail will be published in our book "Siemens in der Luftfahrt", publishing house of Bernard&Graefe, approx avaliable in 2004.
A very brief information about major types including pictural P&I diagramms will be presented next week on our homepage.
http://www.uni-erlangen.de/docs/FAU/fakultaet/natIII/geol_appl/museum1.htm

A short summary I will e-mail to you.

The autopilot-system have been developed and manufactored under 3 different names over a period of 15 years. Very first development activies have been made unter Cooperation Siemens-Gelap (Gelap = Gesellschaft für elektrische Apparate; a design and testing organisation vor the secret rearming of germany) .
First serial production of K4 and DIII systems was made by SAM (Siemens Apparate und Maschinenbau GmbH) in Berlin. Later extendet SAM aviation activities have been focused at Siemens-LGW ( LGW = Luftfahrtgerätewerk Hakenfeld, Berlin-Spandau)and serveral fabrication places in the german empire.

Regards
Volker Leiste

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Andy Fletcher
Thanks
Fri Mar 8 15:08:13 2002
12.151.162.68

Hi Volker,

Thank you for the info and thank you for the e-mail although my German isn't really up to it.

Regards

Andy Fletcher

[Richard T Eger]

Dipl.-Ing. Volker Leiste
....
Fri Mar 8 15:13:18 2002
194.138.37.43

..hope, that pictural P&I diagrams of K4ü and K12 will give a very first information on this products of Siemens -LGW...
Regards

Volker Leiste