Top Speed: 75 m.p.h.
Manufacturer: Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke
Year: 1914
Engine: 100 h.p. Mercedes 6-cylinder
Wingspan: 45 feet 11 inches
Weight: 2,233 lb.
Armament: none
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D.F.W. BI
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Loss of the C-5
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The American Navy dirigible or blimp C-5 left Montauk Point on May 14, 1919 in an attempt to cross the Atlantic by way of Halifax, where it arrived at 10 o’clock on the morning of May 16th, after being in the air almost 26 hours. A perfect landing was made at the Pleasantville base [...]
R-34
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The British dirigible R-34 left East Fortune, near Edinburgh, Scotland, at 2 A.M., July 2, 1919 and proceeded via Newfoundland to Mineóla, New York, arriving at Roosevelt Field at 9 A.M., Sunday, July 6. To show that this was not merely good fortune, a return trip even more successful was made, leaving New York at [...]
Curtiss NC
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
The year 1919 was memorable in the history of aviation for the first successful flight across the Atlantic, achieved by aviators of the United States Navy using NC flying boats, jointly developed by the United States Navy and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation, the N in the designation standing for navy and the C for Curtiss. [...]
Albatros B.II
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
The B.II, a two-seater reconnaissance plane, was the first airplane that established Albatros’ reputation, and was the forerunner of many successfaul craft from that manufacturer. Designed by Ernst Heinkel, it set an altitude record of 14,765 feet early in its career. It was produced in large numbers in the first half of the war.
The seating [...]
A.E.G. B.II
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
The A.E.G. B.II only saw service in the early months of the war, after which more modern types replaced it. It’s follow-on version, the A.E.G. C series was produced in larger numbers in 1915 and 1916, and served throughout the war.
Top Speed: n.a.
Manufacturer: A.E.G.
Year: 1914
Engine: 120 h.p.
Wingspan: 42 feet 7 inches
Weight: [...]
Aviatik B.II
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
The Aviatik B. II was a reconnaissance aircraft widely used by the Germans and Austrians before 1916. Built by the Oesterreichische-Ungarische Flugzeugfabrik of Vienna, it developed from the Aviatik B.I produced by the German company Automobil Aviatik und Leipzig between 1914 and 1915.
The Austrian B.II (Series 32) produced in small numbers in 1915 was powered [...]
Martinsyde S.1
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Similar to the Sopwith Tabloid, the Martinsyde S.1 also served as an observation airplane in France. It only remained in service until summer of 1915; only 60 were built.
Top Speed: 84 m.p.h.
Manufacturer: Martinsyde
Year: 1914
Engine: 80 h.p. Gnome rotary
Wingspan: 21 feet
Weight: n.a.
Armament: none
Martinsyde was a short-lived British [...]
R.A.F. B.E.2a
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
THE 1912 B. E. (BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL)
In 1912 the British Government, realizing the importance of the airplane as a war-machine for scouting purposes, established the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farmborough, with Geoffrey de Havilland, one of the early British experimenters, as designer. Machines of his invention have been called D. H.’s. His 1912 airplane, the [...]
Rumpler C.I Biplane
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
A characteristic feature of the German policy in aviation has been the adoption of a certain model of machine and its use in large numbers until such time us it is displaced by a later type. The Rumpler biplane, affords a typical instance of this. During the second year of the war it very largely [...]