Aircraft Photo of R36/16 | Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI (Alb) | Germany - Air Force | AirHistory.net #682062
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:R36/16
Aircraft Original Type:Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV
Aircraft Generic Type:Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV
Aircraft Version:Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI (Alb)
Licence-built by:Albatros
C/n (msn):R36/16
Operator Titles:(Germany - Air Force)
Location
City / Airport:Kraków - Rakowice-Czyzyny (closed)Map
Country:Poland
Airport Codes:ICAO: EPKC   IATA: -   Local: -   Other: -
Collection:Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego
 
Photo Date:23 May 2023
Photo by:WalAndPl
Photo ID: 682062
Photo Comment

Complete two-engine nacelle of the Zeppelin-Staaken R-VI aircraft. It was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of World War I, and the only Riesenflugzeug ("giant aircraft") design built in any quantity (18 were built). The R.VI was a 2nd designed closed-cockpit military aircraft and the largest wooden aircraft produced in any quantity during World War I. The engine nacelle in the photo comes from an aircraft built at the Albatros plant, which crashed in March or April 1918 in Belgium while returning from a bombing raid.

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