Lübeck-Travemünde F.2

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Lübeck-Travemünde F.2
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Type: Reconnaissance floatplane
Design country:

GermanyGermany Germany

Manufacturer:

Lübeck-Travemünde GmbH aircraft yard

Number of pieces:

11

The Lübeck-Travemünde F.2 was a German reconnaissance seaplane from the 1910s.

history

The F.2 was developed at the Lübeck-Travemünde GmbH aircraft yard, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke Leipzig, and built from 1914. It was the first armed seaplane that was manufactured in Travemünde.

The two-seater biplane with a wingspan of around 19 meters, which was built on the hull of the DFW B-types , was equipped with amphibious floats. Heinrich Oelerich was the designer . An eight-cylinder 220 HP (164 kW) Mercedes D.IV engine with gearbox and a four-blade wooden propeller were used as the power unit. The crew consisted of a pilot and an observer in tandem seating. The observer place was a 7.92 mm Parabellum - machine gun equipped, which was mounted on a turntable.

Eleven machines of the type F.2 were used by the naval forces of the German Reich . The machines were stationed on the Travemünde-Priwall seaplane base , where the Imperial Navy's flying school was also located. Nothing is known in the literature about the whereabouts of the machines.

The assigned marine numbers were 677 and 1147 to 1156. The various machines varied in dimensions and weights; the following data refer to the F.2 with the no. 677.

Lübeck-Travemünde F.2
Parameter Data
 length    11.32 m 
 height    3,575 m 
 span    k. A. 
 Wing area    86 m² 
 drive    Eight-cylinder in-line engine 220 PS (164 kW) Mercedes D.IV 
 Top speed    136 km / h 
 Rate of climb    k. A. 
 Service ceiling    k. A. 
 Range    k. A. 
 Empty mass    k. A. 
 Takeoff mass    k. A. 
 crew    2 
 Armament    a Parabellum MG 14 

literature

  • Michael JH Taylor, Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation . London: Studio Editions 1989.

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