Gotha WD.8
The Gotha WD.8 (Script error: No such module "Lang". - "Water Biplane") was a single-engine maritime patrol floatplane developed during World War I by Script error: No such module "Lang". for the Imperial German Navy's (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Naval Air Service (Script error: No such module "Lang".). The WD.8 was a single-engine version of the WD.7 developed for comparative purposes. The single prototype built was deemed "totally unsuitable" by the Naval Air Service and was later sold to the Ottoman Empire.
Design and description
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History
Specifications
Data from Gotha Aircraft of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes;[1] German Aircraft of the First World War[2]
General characteristics
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Armament
- Guns: 1 × fixed, forward-firing Template:Cvt Parabellum MG 14 machine gun
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References
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