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Fighter prototype of Germany

Schütte-Lanz D.III
Role	fighterType of aircraft
Manufacturer	Luftfahrzeugbau Schütte-Lanz
Designer	Walter Stein
First flight	January 1918
Primary user	Luftstreitkräfte
Number built	1

The Schütte-Lanz D.III was a German fighter prototype during World War I. It participated in the first Idflieg D competition at Adlershof, Germany in January and February 1918. It was a conventional single-bay staggered biplane with N-type interplane struts. Constructed of wood with fabric skinning, the D.III gave an unspectacular performance: production was never continued.

Variants

Dr.I: The Dr.I was a triplane using the fuselage, empennage, engine and undercarriage (apart from a slightly repositioned tailskid) of the D.III. The new wings had a smaller span (6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)) but had single bays and N-struts as before. The centre wing was attached to the upper fuselage and the upper one supported over the cockpit on a N-strutted cabane. Unusually, though there was stagger between the lower pair of wings, there was none between the upper two. The Dr.I took part in the second D competition, held from 27 May to 28 June 1918.

Specifications

Data from The Complete Book of Fighters

General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Gross weight: 860 kg (1,896 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Mercedes D.III 6-cyl. water-cooled in-line piston engine, 120 kW (160 hp)
Propellers: 2-bladed wooden fixed pitch propeller

Performance

Maximum speed: 195 km/h (121 mph, 105 kn)
Rate of climb: 2.61 m/s (514 ft/min)
Time to altitude: 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in 3 minutes, 5,000 m (16,000 ft) in 31.9 minutes

Armament

Guns: 2 x 7.9 mm (0.311 in) LMG 08/15 machine guns

References

Green, William; Gordon Swanborough (1997). The Complete Book of Fighters. London: Salamander Books Limited. p. 520. ISBN 1-85833-777-1.

Bibliography

William Green and Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighters. Colour Library Direct, Godalming, UK: 1994. ISBN 1-85833-777-1.

AEG	D.I D.II D.III
Albatros	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI D.VII D.VIII D.IX D.X D.XI D.XII
Aviatik	(D.I skipped) D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI D.VII
Daimler	D.I D.II
DFW	D.I D.II
Euler	D.I D.II
Fokker	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI D.VII D.VIII
Friedrichshafen	D.I D.II D.III
Halberstadt	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V
Junkers	D.I
Kondor	D.I
LFG/Roland	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI D.VII D.VIII D.IX D.X D.XI D.XII D.XIII D.XIV D.XV D.XVI D.XVII
LVG	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI
Märkische	D.I
Naglo	D.I D.II
Pfalz	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI D.VII D.VIII D.IX D.X D.XI D.XII D.XIII D.XIV D.XV
Rumpler	D.I
Schütte-Lanz	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI D.VII
Siemens-Schuckert	D.I D.II D.III D.IV D.V D.VI
Zeppelin-Lindau	D.I

DJ- class

AEG	DJ.I

Idflieg F, Dr and DDr-class aircraft designations

F- class

Fokker	F.I

Dr- class

AEG	Dr.I
Albatros	Dr.I Dr.II
DFW	Dr.I
Fokker	Dr.I
LFG	Dr.I
Pfalz	Dr.I Dr.II
Schütte-Lanz	Dr.I
Siemens-Schuckert	Dr.I Dr.II

DDr- class

Siemens-Schuckert	DDr.I DDr.II

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