Zeppelin-Staaken
Zeppelin Werke Staaken GmbH (Zeppelin-Staaken) of Staaken developed a series of huge R-Class (Riesenflugzeug) bombers.
Six were adapted as giant seaplanes (#8301-8306). Five of six were completed when work was halted with the Armistice.[1]
Production or combat aircraft from the Great War or shortly thereafter include:
- Zeppelin C.I
- Zeppelin C.II
- Zeppelin V.G.O. I (R.I/RML.1)
- Zeppelin V.G.O. II (R.II)
- Zeppelin V.G.O. III (R.III)
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.V
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.VII [note 1]
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.VIII [note 2]
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.IX [note 3]
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIVa
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV
- Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI
- Staaken L [note 4]
- Staaken 8301-8303 [note 5]
- Staaken E.4/20 [note 6]
References
- Notes
- ↑ The R.VII crashed in Halberstadt on 16 Aug 1917 while on route to delivery, after an engine failure.[2][3]
- ↑ Three R.VIIIs, R.201/16-R.203/16, were planned.[4]
- ↑ Two R.IXs, R.204/16 and R.206/16, were planned.[4]
- ↑ The Staaken L was a floatplane version of the R.VI constructed for the Navy. It crashed and was destroyed in June 1918 on trials. Six more were ordered but none saw service.[5]
- ↑ These planes used lessons from the Staaken L and R-series to build improved giant floatplanes. While testing began in summer 1918, none were accepted by the Navy.[6]
- ↑ The E.4/20 was a prototype all-metal four-engine monoplane transport which began in mid 1919 and finished on 30 Sep 1920. While it was advanced, it was scrapped in 1922 at the insistence of the Inter-Allied Control Commission.[7]
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Peter Gray and Owen Thetford. German Aircraft of the First World War. Great Britain, Putnam, 1962, 1987. ISBN 0-85177-809-7.
- G.W. Haddow and Peter M. Grosz, The German Giants; The German R-Planes 1914-1918. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 2nd Ed., 1969. ISBN 9780370000374
- Kenneth Munson, Bombers: Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft, 1914-1919. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1968, Blandford Press Ltd. ISBN 978-0753721711
- Heinz J. Nowarra, Bruce Robertson, and Peter G. Cooksley. Marine Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War. Letchworth, Herts, England: Harleyford Publications Limited, 1966. ISBN 0900435070