Breguet's Aircraft ID Challenge #629

[Dave_Kent]

August Riedinger founded the Ballonfabrik Augsburg, which until the end of World War I produced about 4,000 military kite balloons. This is likely a development.

[Rod_Filan]

Reportedly from an idea by Oblt Meybohm and built under the direction of Oberingenieur Nikolaus Basenach - constructor of the Groß-Basenach military airships, at August Riedinger Ballonfabrik Augsburg.

In 1888 Riedinger began working with August von Parseval and Rudolf Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld on the development of kite balloons. In 1897 he founded Ballonfabrik Augsburg, which until the end of World War I, produced over 4,000 military observation balloons and several dirigible airship envelopes.

In 1906 at Ballonfabrik the first Parseval airship, Versuchluftschiff, was built - later in 1931 from the same site Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer made the first ascent into the stratosphere - and today, Ballonfabrik still remains an ongoing firm.

As for the dirigible motor balloon, the concept would resurface ten years later when the Swiss military employed at least three Ballonfabrik-built M type motorized captive balloons – very much like the 1918 model - and as Kees pointed out, also by the Czech army using their Matador-built K types (identical to the Ballonfabrik AE), equipped with Salmson-powered Swiss gondolas. The idea again re-emerged as the prototype Moto-ballon MBZ-1 and MBZ-2 in the early to mid-30's using Caquot type balloons and monocoque-fuselage tractor gondolas by the French firm Zodiac at Saint-Cyr - culminating with the military reconnaissance aeronat type MBZ-3 used in World War II.

But already we're getting way too far ahead of ourselves.
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Cheers

Points are as follows:
Kees for noting it is a German motorized balloon = .1
Ron for the balloon type and location = .3
Dave for the date and manufacturer = .6 (and posts Challenge #630)


The scoreboard after challenge #629 - Ballonfabrik Augsburg prototype dirigible observation balloon (motorized 1400 m³ AE type )

115.20 Varese2002 ¤
84.60 Dave_Kent ¤
71.70 Rbailey ¤
33.30 Cruze¤
19.70 Aquilius
19.65 Froggy
18.70 YavorD
15.90 Flamingo
15.20 richard B
13.80 Rod Filan
12.90 Lodzermensch
09.50 matte_kudasai
08.70 Breguet
08.70 Dan-San
08.40 JohnMacG
07.70 EdStevens
07.60 trp81
07.30 Patrick
07.10 Colin A. Owers
06.70 Berman
06.70 Ampovandak
06.10 joegertler
06.00 Eric Goedkoop
05.90 Doc
05.70 FOKKERJ Feuchtwanger
05.70 AROTH
05.60 ercoupepilot
05.45 GregE
05.30 Crimso
05.30 Der Grüne Flieger
05.20 Gilles
05.10 bshatzer
05.00 Tom L..........................have to wait 12 hours

04.70 dpolglaze........................ may start immediately
04.40 Ross Moorhouse
04.30 edmondthieffry
04.20 Rufe
04.00 greenknight
03.00 Brad
02.50 Gregoire
02.50 Rexee
02.10 Crankcase
02.00 austin08
02.00 Rickenbaron
02.00 sobrien
01.70 Kilian
01.60 sergio_vitalio
01.50 Albatros_Ace
01.30 Cigogne
01.20 Ransom E. Olds
01.00 airplane176
01.00 Catfish
01.00 Cliff
01.00 cubsfan4life
01.00 gregorydquist
01.00 Luf-Rick
01.00 Mike Westorp
01.00 paolomiana
01.00 Peter Zambori
01.00 rammjaeger
01.00 SL DIII
01.00 Tripehound
00.80 Machinbird
00.80 Mad Mac
00.80 tbstreet
00.80 toxisch
00.60 Sreiko
00.50 ’14-‘18aviationcollector
00.50 Martin Irvine
00.40 Stig Jarlevik
00.40 Vilkata
00.30 albapfalzd30
00.30 Miroslav Pokorny
00.30 Nieuport14
00.20 Paul_J._Fisher