Including reconnaissance types and modern high-altitude spy planes
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 [...]
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.
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Engine: six-cylinder Benz
Wingspan: 39 feet 3 inches
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Specifications from “Practical Aviation,†[...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
