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The B.I was a conventional two-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of unequal span. [2] It featured two open cockpits in tandem and fixed, tailskid undercarriage. [2] Its upper wing reflected the wing design of the Etrich Taube that Rumpler was building at the time.
The Airco DH.2 was a single-seat pusher biplane fighter aircraft which operated during the First World War.It was the second pusher design by aeronautical engineer Geoffrey de Havilland for Airco, based on his earlier DH.1 two-seater.
The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of World War I, and the only Riesenflugzeug ("giant aircraft") design built in any quantity. [2]The R.VI was the most numerous of the R-Bombers built by Germany, and also among the earliest closed-cockpit military aircraft (the first being the Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets).
The single seat attack biplane, which began evaluation in September 1918, carried a pair of 7.92 mm (.312 in) "Spandau"-type machine guns and a light bomb load. The design featured aluminium fuselage coverings, I-type interplane struts with no flying or landing wires, and protective armour.
Eventually, the S.XIII equipped nearly every French fighter squadron, 74 escadrilles, during the First World War. [25] At the end of the war, plans were underway to replace the S.XIII with several fighter types powered by the 220 kW (300 hp) Hispano-Suiza 8F, such as the Nieuport-Delage NiD 29, the SPAD S.XX and the Sopwith Dolphin II. [26]
It was a three-bay biplane with long span high aspect ratio wings, which were highly staggered. [2] It was powered by a 230 hp (172 kW) BHP engine and first flew in early 1917. [3] The W.B.1 was delivered to the RNAS at Cranwell for evaluation on 8 June 1917. [4]
The AEG R.I or Riesenflugzeug 1 (meaning "giant aircraft") was a four-engined biplane bomber aircraft of World War I manufactured by AEG. [1] Design and development
The Voisin III was a French World War I two-seat pusher biplane multi-purpose aircraft developed by Voisin in 1914 as a more powerful version of the 1912 Voisin L.It is notable for being the aircraft used for the first successful shooting down of an enemy aircraft on October 5, 1914, and to have been used to equip the first dedicated bomber units, in September 1914.