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The Germania C.I was a two-seat general-purpose
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 ...
built by Germania Flugzeugwerke during World War I.


Design and development

Germania Flugzeugwerke built the C.I as a biplane of wooden construction with plywood and fabric construction. A forward firing Spandau machine gun and Parabellum machine gun were mounted in the aft cockpit. A derivative of the C.I, the C.II, of which only a prototype was built, differed from the C.I in having staggered mainplanes and a reduced gap.


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Bibliography

* Angelucci, Enzo. ''The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980.'' San Diego, California: The Military Press, 1983. . * Cowin, H.W. ''German and Austrian Aviation of World War I''. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2000. . * Gray, Peter and Owen Thetford. ''German aircraft of the First World War.'' London: Putnam, 1970, 2nd edition. . * van Wyngarden, G. ''Early German Aces of World War I.'' Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2006. {{Idflieg C-class designations Biplanes Single-engined tractor aircraft 1910s German military reconnaissance aircraft Military aircraft of World War I C.01 Aircraft first flown in 1917