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Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau was an airplane factory located in
* Rohrbach RoI
* Rohrbach Ro II 1923
* Rohrbach Ro III 1927
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Rohrbach
Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau was an airplane factory located in Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
and founded in 1922 by Dr.-Ing Adolf Rohrbach. Rohrbach was a pioneer in building airplanes based on the metal stressed skin
In mechanical engineering, stressed skin is a type of rigid construction, intermediate between monocoque and a rigid frame with a non-loaded covering. A stressed skin structure has its compression-taking elements localized and its tension-taking e ...
principle.
At the time of the early aircraft production the Versailles Treaty
The Treaty of Versailles (french: Traité de Versailles; german: Versailler Vertrag, ) was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June ...
forbade the construction and export of large aircraft in Germany, so Rohrbach set up a Danish company, the 'Rohrbach-Metall-Aeroplan Co. A/S', to build the early Rohrbach aircraft. The strict regulation of the aircraft industry was relaxed in 1926 allowing the Rohrbach series to be built at the Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau GmbH factory in Berlin.
The company enjoyed only limited commercial success, with the Rohrbach Roland
The Rohrbach Ro VIII Roland was an airliner produced in Germany during the 1920s. It was a conventional strut-braced, high-wing monoplane, based loosely on the Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 that Adolf Rohrbach designed in 1920. It had a fully enclosed ...
ten-seat airliner as its only model built in any quantity. By 1934 the company was taken over by Weser Flugzeugbau
Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH, known as Weserflug, was an aircraft manufacturing company in Germany.
History
The company was founded in 1934 as a subsidiary of the ship and machine company Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG (DESCHIMAG). It began prod ...
, where Adolf Rohrbach became technical director.
Models
* Rohrbach RoI
* Rohrbach Ro II 1923
* Rohrbach Ro III 1927
* Rohrbach Ro IIIa Rodra
The Rohrbach Ro III was a twin-engined, all-metal flying boat built in Germany in the mid-1920s. A development of the Ro II, it could be configured either as an airliner or a reconnaissance aircraft. It was developed into the similar but more po ...
* Rohrbach Ro IV Inverness
The Rohrbach Ro IV, also known as the Beardmore BeRo.2 Inverness was an all-metal monoplane flying boat of the 1920s. Designed by the German company Rohrbach for the British Royal Air Force, two were ordered, one completed by Rohrbach's Danish s ...
1925
* Rohrbach Ro V Rocco
Rohrbach Ro V was a seaplane manufactured by the Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau company in Berlin, Germany. Only one was built, in 1927. It was delivered to Severa GmbH for comparison flights with the Dornier Do J "Superwal" and as a seaplane trainer ...
1927
* Rohrbach Ro VI
The Beardmore Inflexible, also known as the Rohrbach Ro VI, was a three-engined all-metal prototype bomber aircraft built by William Beardmore and Company at Dalmuir, Scotland.
Design and development
William Beardmore and Company had acquired ...
or the 'Beardmore Inflexible
The Beardmore Inflexible, also known as the Rohrbach Ro VI, was a three-engined all-metal prototype bomber aircraft built by William Beardmore and Company at Dalmuir, Scotland.
Design and development
William Beardmore and Company had acquired ...
' 1928, one built in the UK by William Beardmore & Co
William Beardmore and Company was a British engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid-1930s and at its peak employed about 40,000 people. It was founded and ...
* Rohrbach Ro VII Robbe
The Rohrbach Ro VII Robbe ( en, Seal) was an all-metal, twin engine flying boat built in Germany in the 1920s. It could be adapted to commercial or military rôles.
Design and development
As the full company name ( Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau) ...
1926
* Rohrbach Ro VIII Roland
The Rohrbach Ro VIII Roland was an airliner produced in Germany during the 1920s. It was a conventional strut-braced, high-wing monoplane, based loosely on the Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 that Adolf Rohrbach designed in 1920. It had a fully enclose ...
1926
* Rohrbach Ro IX Rofix
The Rohrbach Ro IX "Rofix" was a German all-metal monoplane fighter aircraft designed in February 1924 by Kurt Tank for Rohrbach.
History
The initial order for the aircraft was for two test aircraft, with a view of producing 50. Construction be ...
1927
* Rohrbach Ro X Romar
The Rohrbach Ro X Romar was a German long-range commercial flying-boat and the last aircraft designed and built by Rohrbach Metall Flugzeugbau GmbH.
Development
The Romar was the final production aircraft from Rohrbach and was a monoplane flyin ...
1927
* Rohrbach Ro XI Rostra
The Rohrbach Ro XI Rostra was a flying boat built in Germany in 1928 for use as a transatlantic mail plane.
Design and development
The Ro XI shared the same general configuration its predecessor, the Ro V Rocco: a conventional, high-wing flyi ...
1928
References
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External links
* http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p012524.htm * http://www.histaviation.com/Rohrbach_Ro_II.html * http://www.histaviation.com/Rohrbach.html Rohrbach * http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/2008/06/04/german-flying-boats-part-1-1914-1935/4/ * {{Authority control Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany