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[2] [page needed] Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI The first true production Zeppelin-Staaken R-plane was the R.VI. This giant aircraft was powered either by four 245 hp (183 kW) Maybach Mb.IV engines or four 260 hp (190 kW) Mercedes D.IVa engines. The fuselage was similar to the previous aircraft but the cockpit was extended forward ...
The sole R.V (R.V 13/15) was accepted into service with Rfa 501 (Riesenflugzeug Abteilung 501) on 23 December 1917, after a protracted development period, due to teething troubles with the engine transmission systems. After an initial operational mission on 25 January 1918, fifteen further operational missions were flown in eight months of ...
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 transmission of power from the centrally mounted engines to the remote, most often wing-mounted propellers proved troublesome in practice, and most operational examples of Riesenflugzeug-class aircraft were of the second type, as with the all-direct-drive Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI.
First flown early in 1917, the sole R.VII (R.14/15) was accepted by the Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte (Imperial German Air Service) on 3 July 1917 and assigned to Rfa 501 on 29 July 1917. Used in operations on the Western Front, the R.VII had a short operational life, crashing due to a clutch failure and the incorrect actions of a flight mechanic ...
Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.I (1915) Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.II (1915) Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.III (1915) Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV (1915) Zeppelin-Staaken R.V (1915) Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI (1916) Zeppelin-Staaken R.VII (1917) Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV (1918) Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV (1918) Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI (1918) Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.I (did not fly ...
Zeppelin-Staaken (sometimes Zeppelin Werke Staaken), was a German aircraft manufacturer originally named Versuchsbau G.m.b.H. Gotha-Ost (Experimental Works Gotha-East (V.G.O.)) when it was formed in mid-1914 by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and Robert Bosch.
Zeppelin Werke Staaken G.m.b.H.) Zeppelin-Staaken VGO.I(RML.1) (VGO-Versuchsbau Gotha-Ost) Zeppelin-Staaken VGO.II; Zeppelin-Staaken VGO.III; Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV; Zeppelin-Staaken R.V; Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI; Zeppelin-Staaken R.VII; Zeppelin-Staaken R.VIII [13] Zeppelin-Staaken R.IX [13] Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV; Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV; Zeppelin ...