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Страна | Конструктор | Название | Год | Фото | Текст |
Страна: Германия Год: 1912
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Fokker - V42 - 1919 - Германия | <– | –> | Friedrichshafen - FF2 / FF4 - 1913 - Германия |
J.Herris - Friedrichshafen Aircraft of WWI /Centennial Perspective/ (21) |
Friedrichshafen's first airplane design, the primitive FF1. Appropriately, it was a seaplane as were most Friedrichshafen designs. The FF1 first flew in mid-November 1912, the year that the company was founded. | J.Herris - Friedrichshafen Aircraft of WWI /Centennial Perspective/ (21) |
Friedrichshafen FF1 with Dr. Koster handling the large pilot's control wheel. Fdh FF1 (1912/13). In February 1913, the Imperial Navy contacted FF for the first time. Kober then designed a water biplane with a central float (mass 90 kg, volume 1250 liters). The ailerons were arranged between the wings in the Curtiss style. The FF1 was wrecked in February 1914 in front of the head of the aircraft maintenance department, Major Felix Wagenfuhr. |
J.Herris - Friedrichshafen Aircraft of WWI /Centennial Perspective/ (21) |
The primitive Friedrichshafen's FF1 in flight. (The Peter M. Bowers Collection/The Museum of Flight) | J.Herris - Friedrichshafen Aircraft of WWI /Centennial Perspective/ (21) |
The Friedrichshafen FF1 had a central main float that could be fitted with wheels to facilitate ground handling. Side-mounted radiators cooled the Argus engine and the ailerons were mounted between the wings. | J.Herris - Friedrichshafen Aircraft of WWI /Centennial Perspective/ (21) |
The Friedrichshafen FF1 could carry two crewmen, with the pilot in the front cockpit. |