The Benz Bz.III was a six-cylinder,
water-cooled
Cooling tower and water discharge of a nuclear power plant
Water cooling is a method of heat removal from components and industrial equipment. Evaporative cooling using water is often more efficient than air cooling. Water is inexpensive and no ...
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inline engine developed in Germany for use in aircraft in
1914
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...
. Developing 112 kW (150 hp) at 1,400 rpm from 14.3 L (875 cu in),
[Smith 1981, p.53.] it powered many German military aircraft during
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. It was replaced in production by the unrelated
Benz Bz.IIIa.
and eventually the V-8
Benz Bz.IIIb. The Benz Bz.III was built under licence in
Sweden by
AB Thulinverken
AB Thulinverken was a company in Landskrona, Sweden, founded in 1914 as Enoch Thulins Aeroplanfabrik by the airman and aircraft technician Enoch Thulin. The company became Sweden's first aircraft manufacturer. In 1920, Thulin also started manuf ...
, known as the Thulin E.
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AEG C.I
The AEG C.I was a two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft produced in small numbers from March 1915 by the German company Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG). It was essentially an AEG B.II armed with a single 7.92 mm (.312 ...
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AEG C.II
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AEG C.III
The AEG C.III was a two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft, a single prototype of which was built during World War I. The aircraft featured an unusual fuselage design that completely filled the gap between the upper and lower sets of wings, to p ...
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AEG C.IV
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AEG G.II
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Albatros C.I
The Albatros C.I, (post-war company designations L.6 & L.7), was the first of the successful C-series of two-seat general-purpose biplanes built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke during World War I. Based on the unarmed Albatros B.II, the C.I reversed ...
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Albatros C.II
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Albatros C.III
The Albatros C.III was a German two-seat general-purpose biplane of World War I, built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke. The C.III was a refined version of the successful Albatros C.I and was eventually produced in greater numbers than any other C-typ ...
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Albatros D.I
The Albatros D.I was a German fighter aircraft used during World War I. Although its operational career was short, it was the first of the Albatros D types which equipped the bulk of the German and Austrian fighter squadrons ('' Jagdstaffeln'') f ...
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Albatros W.3
The Albatros W.3, company designation VT, was a biplane torpedo bomber floatplane prototype, built for the Imperial German Navy during the First World War. Only one was built.
Design and development
The W.3 was designed from the outset as a to ...
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Albatros G.II
The Albatros G.II, (Company post-war designation L.11), was a twin-engined German biplane bomber of World War I.
Development
Designed as a medium bomber, the G.II did not share any attributes with the larger G.I, being a single bay biplane with ...
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Friedrichshafen FF.33
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Friedrichshafen FF.41
The Friedrichshafen FF.41a was a large, German-built, three-seat, twin-engine floatplane reconnaissance aircraft designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1917.
The aircraft was mainly used as a reconnaissance aircraft, but also as a bomber and ...
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Friedrichshafen G.I
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Gotha G.I
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Hansa-Brandenburg KDW
The Hansa-Brandenburg KDW was a German single-engine, single-seat, fighter floatplane of World War I. The KDW''Kampf Doppeldecker, Wasser'' (Fighter Biplane, Water)was adapted from the Hansa-Brandenburg D.I landplane to provide coastal defence ...
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.12
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Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
The Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 was a German two-seat fighter aircraft, fighter floatplane which served in the closing months of World War I with the Imperial German Navy's () Naval Air Service () from bases on the North Sea coast.
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LFG Roland D.VII
The Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft (LFG) Roland D.VII was a German single seat, single engine biplane fighter aircraft built during World War I. Problems with its underdeveloped V-8 engine prevented its production.
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Riesenflugzeug
A ''Riesenflugzeug'' (plural ''Riesenflugzeuge'', German for "giant aircraft"), sometimes colloquially referred to in English as an R-plane, was any member of a class of large World War I German bombers, possessing at least three aircraft engines, ...
– Germany's giant aircraft of WWI
Specifications
See also
References
Bibliography
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* Kyrill von Gersdorff, Kurt Grasmann. ''Flugmotoren und Strahltriebwerke'', Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1981,
* Smith, Herschel. ''Aircraft Piston Engines''. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. .
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