type of aircraft
Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20
The Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 was a revolutionary four-engine all-metal passenger monoplane designed in 1917 by Adolf Rohrbach and completed in 1919 at the Zeppelin-Staaken works outside Berlin, Germany. The E-4/20 was the first four-engine, all-metal stressed skin heavier-than-air airliner built.
Summary from Wikipedia, photo via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA.
- Manufacturer
- Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
- Country of origin
- German Reich
- First flight
- 1920-11-09
Specifications
- Cruise speed
- 110 kt
- Max speed
- 121 kt
- Range
- 650 nm
- Max takeoff weight
- 18,739 lb
- Empty weight
- 13,386 lb
- Powerplant
- 4 × Maybach Mb.IVa 6-cyl water-cooled in-line piston engines
- Engines
- 4
- Seats
- 18
- Length
- 54.5 ft
- Wingspan
- 101.7 ft
- Height
- 14.8 ft
- Number built
- 1
Specifications are approximate and may vary by variant. Compiled from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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