Hansa-Brandenburg W.11
The Hansa-Brandenburg W.11 was a prototype floatplane fighter designed by the Hansa-Brandenburg Aircraft Company (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".) during World War I. It was a slightly enlarged version of the KDW fitted with a more powerful engine. Only three examples were built during 1916 and no production order followed. Their activities are not known with any detail, but one survived to the end of the war and was probably scrapped afterward.
Design and development
The W.11 followed same configuration as the KDW, including the star-shaped interplane struts connecting the upper and lower wings, but was slightly larger. The latter's water-cooled Script error: No such module "convert". Benz Bz.III straight-six engine was replaced by a Template:Cvt Benz Bz.IV straight-six engine that also drove a two-bladed fixed-pitch propeller. The aircraft retained the KDW's armament of two fixed, forward-firing Script error: No such module "convert". LMG 08/15 machine guns.[1]
Specifications
References
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- ↑ Owers, p. 153
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