Category: Observation

Including reconnaissance types and modern high-altitude spy planes

Ago C.IV

As far as its wing shape and construction are concerned, the Ago fighting biplane is in a class by itself since it is characterized by features not to be found on aeroplanes of any other make.

Top Speed: n.a.
Engine: six-cylinder Benz
Wingspan: 39 feet 3 inches
Weight: n.a.
Armament: n.a.
Specifications from “Practical Aviation,” [...]

Hansa Brandenburg C.I

The machine is known as the Hansa-Brandenburg and represents the Austrian version of the German Albatross type. While designed as a reconnaissance machine, neither its speed nor its radius of action are such as to make it particularly suited for this service. It is, moreover, characterized by a number of features of design [...]

Wright-Martin Type V

The Wright-Martin Type V, was a reconnaissance type with tractor propeller, and the observer’s cockpit being placed well forward of the entering wedge of the lower wings.

Specifications from “Practical Aviation,” by Charles Hayward, 1919
Planes
The span of the machine is 39 feet 8 ½ inches, both planes being the same size. The [...]

Continental Pusher Biplane

The Continental pusher biplane is one of the comparatively few machines of the pusher type turned out in this country. A pusher aeroplane is one in which the propeller is back of the planes and thrusts the machine forward instead of pulling it as in the tractor type. It will be recalled that [...]