twin tail

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in a book I am reading there are references to a german airplane known as " twin tail " what type would this have been ?

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in a book I am reading there are references to a german airplane known as " twin tail " what type would this have been ?

It would have been an Ago CI, CII or CIII two seat pusher. These had twin streamlined booms supporting the tail.There was also the Otto BI and CI but very few of these saw action If you are reading "The Wind in the Wires" then he is talking about an Ago

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Dependent upon the year, the German aeroplane could be the Hannoveraner CLIII; this had a T-tail in addition to the conventional horizontal stabiliser.

Graeme

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Dependent upon the year, the German aeroplane could be the Hannoveraner CLIII; this had a T-tail in addition to the conventional horizontal stabiliser.

Graeme

Never seen a Hannover CL II or CLIIIa referred to in this manner . Note the Hannover CL I and most of the CLIVs did not have a biplane (not twin) tail. All Hannover CLs had a single tail - some had bi plane tail assemblies.which included the elevators

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the book is " fighter heroes of WW1 by joshua levine "

" I think the most satisfactory time was when we heard of a new german machine which we called " tow tails " thatw as a thing that had two fuselages . we had never imagined a thing of this size . It had a crew of three , the pilot sat in a nacellewhich was positioned between the two fuselages . It was a tractor with two engines , one at the nose of each fuselage and it had two gunners , one forward , then the pilot and then the rear gunner . To our mind it must be a very formidable thing "

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the book is " fighter heroes of WW1 by joshua levine "

" I think the most satisfactory time was when we heard of a new german machine which we called " tow tails " thatw as a thing that had two fuselages . we had never imagined a thing of this size . It had a crew of three , the pilot sat in a nacellewhich was positioned between the two fuselages . It was a tractor with two engines , one at the nose of each fuselage and it had two gunners , one forward , then the pilot and then the rear gunner . To our mind it must be a very formidable thing "

No such aircraft existed, however the size armament and crew of the Agos was often over estimated see German WW1 Aircraft by Grey and Thetford The nacelle and two fuselages does meet the basic configuration of the Ago Cs. Fokker did build a Battle plane with twin fuselages a nacelle, a crew of three and a push/pull twin engine configuration. However at the end of the first (and only) flight a pallid and sweating Fokker had the prototype disposed of as it was inherently unsafe.

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An Ago CI

http://www.greatwaraviation.com/Aircraft/German/Pages/AGO/AGO%20CI.html

and an Otto (note this picture often appears mis captioned as an Ago CI but you will observe the booms are square sectioned rather than oval)

http://members.shaw.ca/flyingaces/br.crashfiles/A/cf-28_AGO.CI.jpg

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And here is the Fokker M9 (K1)

http://auto.img.v4.skyrock.net/4568/49844568/pics/3138868690_1_4_cAXNO8Lg.jpg

http://auto.img.v4.skyrock.net/4568/49844568/pics/3138868690_1_2_2Apt88wj.jpg

Only flown once as the fuselages flexed up and down independently and threatened to break the wings in two. I built a vacuform model of this aircraft and even in model form the weakness became instantly apparent,