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Reconnaissance & Observation

 

 
Type: Rumpler C 1 two seat reconnaissance and general purpose aircraft.
Max Speed: 95 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 16,405 ft.
Endurance: 4 hours 0 minutes.
Armament: two 7.92-mm (0.312-in) machine guns one fixed and one trainable and up to 229 lb of bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
The Rumpler C 1 was an effective reconnaissance machine up to 1916, but from the beginning of the 1917 proved inadequate in performance and agility to evade the latest generation of Allied fighters.

 
Type: Aviatik B II two seat reconnaissance aircraft. 
Max Speed: ??? mph at ??? ft.
Climb Rate:??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: ??? ft.
Range of ??? miles. 
Armament: none.
Photo: Musee de Air
Under guard by its French captor, Aviatik was either forced down by engine failure, or brought down by a French pilot.

 
Type: Blohm und Voss Bv141B three seat short range reconnaissance aircraft.
Max Speed: 230 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 
Service Ceiling: 32,810 ft.
Range: 746 miles
Armament: two fixed and two trainable 0.312 in 7.92 mm machine guns, and four 110 lb bombs.
Photo: Musee de 1 Air
The Bv 141 was a very unusual plane, and the Bv 141B-0 pre production model seen here with a redesigned wing, revised tail unit, and more powerful engine is the ninth prototype.

 

Type: Albatros C III two seat reconnaissance, observation, and general purpose plane.
Max Speed: 87 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 3,280 ft, in 9 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 11,000 ft.
Range: endurance 4 hours o minutes.
Armament: two 0.312 in 7.92 mm machine guns ( one fixed and one trainable) and a small bomb load.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
This photograph of a C III captured by the French reveals the type's overall configuration and armament.

 

Type: LVG C VI two seat reconnaissance and observation
aircraft.
Max Speed: 106 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: 9,845 ft. 15 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 21,340 ft.
Range: endurance 3 hours 30 minutes.
Armament: one fixed and one trainable 0.312 in 7.92 mm machine guns, and up to 243 lb of bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
Fast, compact, and well armed, the C VI was one of several multi role warplanes introduced by the Germans in 1918 that proved difficult and dangerous for the Allied fighters to intercept.

 

Type: Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-8 Condor six seat long range martime reconnaissance bomber with missile capability.
Max Speed: 224 mph at 15,750 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 19,030 ft.
Range: 2,175 miles.
Armament: one 20 mm cannon, four 13.1 mm 0.52 in machine guns, and one 7.92 mm 0.312 in machine gun in nose, beam and ventral positions, and two HS 293A missiles.
Photo: D. R.
Rightly called the "scourge of the Atlantic" , the Condor was at times countered by Allied fighters operating from aircraft carries.

 

Type: Hs 126B-1 two  seat tactical reconnaissance aircraft.
Max Speed: 221 mph at 9,845 ft.
Climb Rate: 13,125 ft. in7.23 minutes.
Service Ceiling: 27,000 ft.
Range: 360 miles.
Armament: two 7.9 mm 0.312 in machine guns and up to 331 lb
of bombs.
Photo: D. R.
Derived from an already obsolescent concept, the large Hs 126 was gradually replaced by the twin engine Focke-Wulf Fw 189.

 

 

Transport & Utility

 
Type: Dornier Do 28B-1 STOL utility transport.
Max Speed: 180 mph at sea level
Climb Rate: 1,400 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 20,700 ft.
Range: 769 miles.
Payload: seven passengers or an equivalent weight of freight.
Photo: M. Rostaing
The Do 28 series is used by both West German air arms, the Lufwaffe and the Marineflieger, for a variety of task.

 
Type: Junkers Ju 52/3m g7e three seat multi-role transport.
Max Speed: 178 mph at 4,590 ft.
Climb Rate: 9,845 ft in 19 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 18,045 ft.
Range: 930 miles.
Armament: four 7.92 mm 0.312 in machine guns in dorsal and beam positions.
Payload: 18 troops or 12 litters or freight.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
A legendary transport, the Ju 52/3m was born in peace, performed superbly in a violent war, and then returned to the humdrum existence of the civil transport world despite its technical obsolescence.

 

 

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