Misplaced Pages

Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 947

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
No. 947
A forward oblique view of the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 947
Role Maritime reconnaissance floatplaneType of aircraft
National origin Germany
Manufacturer Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven
First flight 1916
Number built 1

The Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 947 was a maritime reconnaissance floatplane built for the Imperial German Navy's (Kaiserliche Marine) Naval Air Service (Marine-Fliegerabteilung) during the First World War, the sole example of its type. It was one of only three armed aircraft built by the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven amongst a variety of trainer seaplanes that they had produced for the Navy during the course of the war. Number 947 was a two-bay biplane of conventional design, with twin pontoon undercarriage, and two open cockpits in tandem. It received the Naval classification CHFT, indicating an armed aircraft equipped with radio gear capable of both sending and receiving.

The design bore a resemblance to a pair of trainer seaplanes produced at Wilhelmshaven (Nos 461–462) and to a design from Kaiserliche Werft Kiel (Nos 463–466), and all three designs could have been the work of the same designer or designers. The machine was evaluated by the seaplane testing unit (SVK – Seeflugzeug-Versuchskommando) at Warnemünde at some point, but the records that have survived are somewhat contradictory. In any case, no further examples were constructed.


Specifications

Data from Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.145, Gray & Thetford 1962, p.451

General characteristics

  • Crew: Two, pilot and observer
  • Length: 13.00 m (42 ft 8 in)
  • Wingspan: 15.95 m (52 ft 4 in)
  • Height: 4.00 m (13 ft 2 in)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Mercedes D.IV , 160 kW (220 hp)

Armament

  • 1 × trainable 7.9 mm machine gun

Notes

  1. ^ Nowarra 1966, p.78
  2. ^ Gray & Thetford 1962, p.450
  3. ^ Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.145
  4. Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.113

References

  • Gray, Peter; Owen Thetford (1962). German Aircraft of the First World War. London: Putnam.
  • Herris, Jack (2015). German Seaplanes of WWI: Sablatnig, Kaiserliche Werften, Lübeck-Travemünde, LTG, & Oertz: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Seaplanes. Great War Aviation Centennial Series. Vol. 15. n.p.: Aeronaut Books. ISBN 978-1-935881-27-8.
  • Kroschel, Günter; Helmut Stützer (1994). Die Deutschen Militärflugzeuge 1910–1918. Herford: Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn.
  • Nowarra, Heinz J. (1966). Marine Aircraft of the 1914–1918 War. Letchworth, Harts: Harleyford Publications.
Kaiserliche Werften aircraft
Danzig
Kiel
Wilhelmshaven
Categories: