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The Alabatros W.5 was a
floatplane
A floatplane is a type of seaplane with one or more slender floats mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy. By contrast, a flying boat uses its fuselage for buoyancy. Either type of seaplane may also have landing gear suitable for land, ...
torpedo bomber used by
Germany during
World War I. It was a
biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
with twin
pusher engines.
Operators
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Imperial German Navy
Specifications (W.5)
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W.5
1910s German bomber aircraft
Floatplanes
Twin-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1917
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