The Hansa-Brandenburg W.17 was a German flying boat fighter of the World War I era, designed and built by

Hansa-Brandenburg Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke (more usually just Hansa-Brandenburg) was a German aircraft manufacturing company that operated during World War I. It was created in May 1914 by the purchase of ''Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke'' by Cami ...

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Two W.17 prototypes were built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The first prototype (''A49/I'') was a biplane with a cantilever lower wing, while the second prototype (''A 49/II'') was a triplane with interplane bracing struts. Armament consisted of two

Schwarzlose machine gun The Maschinengewehr (Schwarzlose) M. 7, also known as the Schwarzlose MG, is a medium machine-gun, used as a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I. It was utilized by the Dutch, Greek and Hungarian armies duri ...

s. Gottfried Banfield, who oversaw evaluation of the W.17, judged the aircraft unsuitable for service due to its poor maneuverability. The second W.17, meanwhile, was evaluated by the

Austro-Hungarian Navy The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (german: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short ''k.u.k. Kriegsmarine'', hu, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the A ...

in July 1917 but was not ordered into production.

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