J.Herris Otto, AGO and BFW Aircraft of WWI (A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes 37)

Ago Tractor Biplane Trainer

   In 1913 Ago produced the Tractor Biplane Trainer. It was a conventional design powered by a 100 hp Gnome rotary engine. The wings had three bays of bracing.


Ago Tractor Biplane Floatplane Trainer

   In 1913 Ago produced the Tractor Biplane Trainer. The Tractor Floatplane Trainer was a floatplane development of that aircraft and like it was a conventional three-bay biplane design powered by a 100 hp Gnome rotary engine. A few purchased by the Navy were assigned Marine Numbers 30-39.

Журнал Flight

Flight, September 25, 1914.

AIRCRAFT "MADE IN GERMANY"
WHICH MAY BE EMPLOYED AGAINST THE ALLIES.

3. The Ago Tractor Seaplane
   is a fuselage biplane, with accommodation for pilot and passenger sitting one in front of the other. Of the main planes, which are set at a dihedral angle, ailerons are fitted to the upper one only. The two floats are of the single stepped type, and are carried on a series of A steel tubes attached to the lower plane at its junction to the inner pairs of interplane struts.