st. omer

[camel crew]

just a quickie people. Did the Germans have the equivalant of St. Omer or where German planes shipped straight where they were needed? Oh and another quickie - where they delivered by transport pilots or replacement pilots? Ta Iain

[Flying Helmut]

The Germans used the Armee Flugpark, a depot system.

Sometimes front line pilots travelled by car/lorry or train to the Flugpark, collected their new planes, and flew them back to their unit.
Sometimes they flew older, worn-out planes from the Front to the Flugpark, and exchanged them for new machines.
Sometimes replacement pilots flew in with their new machines.
Sometimes the new planes were delivered by rail/road to the Front Line airfield, usually with complete fuselage & tail but separate wings, to be fully assembled on site.

I have not seen any reference to Transport pilots.

[camel crew]

Thanks Tim

Assume there were many Flugparks?

[zenlizard]

Quite a lot, but as the designations changed over the course of the war,I couldn't personally say how many eventually. The flugpark system started as Etappen (staging), some of which were slated for the numbered Armies, others for the various nationalities within the Empire (for example, Bavaria). As the war went on, one or two of the Flugparks became specialized in aircrew training and replacement type: for example (and from memory, not for a source I can dig up at the moment,) Fluzeugpark 1 was redesignated an Observers' School.

This, like a lot of information about the Luftstreitkräfte, can be a big mess.

[camel crew]

will have a look in Flugparks. the background detail of the game just sucks you in.

[Jager]

will have a look in Flugparks. the background detail of the game just sucks you in.

History is like that
Karl

[camel crew]

just seen some forum pages on the subject. That is a lot of information and a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. Need to think

[camel crew]

think I've got some bits I need sorted. Located on a map Fliegerdepot Nord and Sud at Maubeuge and Saarbrucken. Got to be some mileage in a story involving travelling the 10 kilometres to one depot, only to find you're replacement aircraft is in the other depot 250+ kilometres away and a couple of snotty Quartermasters.

[Jager]

and a couple of snotty Quartermasters.

Boy, aren't they always?
Karl