1913 Erfurt: pulled the trigger

Douglas Jr. · 05-07-2012, 09:21 AM

Richard,

First of all, congratulations for your first Luger. A nice example of an Imperial Luger.
I was a an enthusiat of combat flight simulators from WWI and WWII and it is my understood that this kind of enterntainment plays a major role to introduce Military History and the collecting hobby to a new public.

In this sense I would start a collection of German Imperial medals, that are also very interesting and can display great with your Luger.

All the best,

Douglas

Norme · 05-07-2012, 09:50 AM

Hi Richard, Since your primary interest is aviation, may I suggest that your next Luger should be a 1914 Erfurt Artillery. A little known fact (at least it was by me) is that despite it's name the Artillery model was initially developed for use by aircrew. Early testing showed that "At distances of 300 - 500m and under surface wind conditions of 8m/sec, satisfactory results were obtained against man-sized targets from a flying airplane. At this distance one hit could be expected out of each salvo of 8 rounds.... firing tests from 100m resulted in considerable damage to radiators and Gnôme-Rhône engines....". The Luftstreitkräfte actually ordered a few pre-production samples of the LP08 but, as we all know, this project "never got off the ground". By the way, all this is from the wonderful Görtz/Sturgess book "Pistole Parabellum". Best regards, Norm

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05-07-2012, 09:21 AM	#1
Douglas Jr. User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: South America Posts: 948 Thanks: 598 Thanked 584 Times in 254 Posts	Richard, First of all, congratulations for your first Luger. A nice example of an Imperial Luger. I was a an enthusiat of combat flight simulators from WWI and WWII and it is my understood that this kind of enterntainment plays a major role to introduce Military History and the collecting hobby to a new public. In this sense I would start a collection of German Imperial medals, that are also very interesting and can display great with your Luger. All the best, Douglas

05-07-2012, 09:50 AM	#2
Norme Always A Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 2,417 Thanks: 226 Thanked 2,607 Times in 933 Posts	Hi Richard, Since your primary interest is aviation, may I suggest that your next Luger should be a 1914 Erfurt Artillery. A little known fact (at least it was by me) is that despite it's name the Artillery model was initially developed for use by aircrew. Early testing showed that "At distances of 300 - 500m and under surface wind conditions of 8m/sec, satisfactory results were obtained against man-sized targets from a flying airplane. At this distance one hit could be expected out of each salvo of 8 rounds.... firing tests from 100m resulted in considerable damage to radiators and Gnôme-Rhône engines....". The Luftstreitkräfte actually ordered a few pre-production samples of the LP08 but, as we all know, this project "never got off the ground". By the way, all this is from the wonderful Görtz/Sturgess book "Pistole Parabellum". Best regards, Norm