Rechlin

Rechlin is a small village in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The town's airport was the Luftwaffe's main testing ground for new aircraft designs during the Third Reich. The Rechlin data sheets on Luftwaffe and captured Allied aircraft are considered by many aviation historians to be among the most reliable sources for aircraft performance data from the WW2 era.

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Construction of the first airfield at Rechlin started in 1916; the airfield was officially opened on 29 August, 1918. After the end of World War 1, the airfield was closed again and many of its installations dismantled. During the 1920s, the airfield was reopened as a civilian airbase, but it was soon used as a testing ground for the secret German air force experiments under the Treaty of Rapallo. The site was probably chosen for its remote location in an almost uninhabited area.

Luftwaffe: The (German: "air force", IPA: ) is the commonly used term for the German air force. The history of the Luftwaffe began in 1910 with the founding of the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkr?fte), yet it has not been continuous, owing to the fact that Germany lost both World Wars (1914-191...

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