Hansa-Brandenburg CC
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| Type: | Hunting flying boat |
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| First flight: |
February 1917 |
| Commissioning: |
1917 |
| Production time: |
1917 |
| Number of pieces: |
36 (+ 135 under license from Phoenix) |
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The Hansa-Brandenburg CC was a German flying boat in the First World War . The designer of the Hansa and Brandenburgische Flugzeug-Werke, Ernst Heinkel , initially oriented himself towards the Austrian Lohner flying boats and developed the FB type, a three-seater, which was delivered in small numbers to the German and Austro- Hungarian navies in 1915.
history
In 1916 Heinkel designed a single-seater flying boat with a wooden hull and named it "CC" after the initials of the company owner, Camillo Castiglioni . The CC flying boat - not to be confused with the Hansa-Brandenburg KDW seaplane - was intended to be used as a fighter plane. It had the typical star bracing of the Hansa-Brandenburg DI hunter. In February 1917, the first CC came to Warnemünde for testing with the Imperial Navy . After that a total of 35 flying boats from two production series were delivered, which were initially armed with one, then with two rigid machine-guns.
The flying boat was used by the German navy in the Baltic Sea in 1917, but was mainly produced under license by the Phönix Flugzeugwerke for the Austro-Hungarian sea pilots. These machines had 8 mm Schwarzlose MGs and were much more motorized. The Austrian CCs - also known as "combat double-decker water" - were assigned to the Austrian A-class flying boats (A.13-42 and A.45-49) and used over the Adriatic, where the faster flying boats fought fierce battles with the more agile Nieuport 11 delivered by the Italian opponents. The Austrian flying hero Gottfried von Banfield also flew the CC flying boat.
In 1918 a machine (A45) was delivered on a trial basis as a three-decker.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data (deviations per series possible) |
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| crew | 1 |
| length | 7.65 m |
| span | 9.30 m |
| height | 3.58 m |
| Wing area | 26.50 m² |
| Empty mass | 715 kg |
| Takeoff mass | 1030 kg (1375 kg) |
| Engine | a water-cooled 6-cylinder in- line engine Benz Bz III , Austro-Daimler or Hiero with 150, 185 or 200 HP starting power |
| Top speed | 175 km / h in NN |
| Climbing time to 1000 m | 5 min |
| Climbing time to 2000 m | 32 min (11:12 min) |
| Service ceiling | 4000 m |
| Range | 500 km |
| Flight duration | 3:30 h |
| Armament | 1–2 rigid MG 08/15 7.92 mm or 8 mm Schwarzlose MG M.07 / 12 |
See also
literature
- Enzo Angelucci, Paolo Matricardi: Airplanes from the beginnings to the 1st World War , Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-8068-0391-9
- H. Dieter Köhler: The German aviation Ernst Heinkel - pioneer of the high-speed aircraft , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, ISBN 3-7637-6116-0
- Kenneth Munson: Fighter planes, fighters and training planes 1914-1919 , Zurich 1968, No. 72
- Günter Kroschel, Helmut Stützer: The German military aircraft 1910-18 , Wilhelmshaven 1977
