W.18 | |
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Umberto Calvello with personnel of 261st Squadron next to the wreckage of A91 shotdown and captured on 4 May 1918 | |
Role | Fighter flying boat |
Manufacturer | Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeug-Werke |
First flight | 1917 |
Primary users | Austro-Hungarian Navy Kaiserliche Marine |
Produced | 49 |
Developed from | Hansa-Brandenburg CC |
The Hansa-Brandenburg W.18 was a single-seat German fighter flying boat of World War I. It was used by both the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) and the Austro-Hungarian Navy.
The Hansa-Brandenburg W.18 during 1916 for use by the Austro-Hungarian Navy. It was a single engined, single seater flying boat, with a Hiero 6 pusher engine mounted between the wings. It had single-bay wings, with the unusual "Star-Strutter" arrangement of bracing struts (where four Vee struts joined in the center of the wing bay to result in a "star" arrangement) shared with the Hansa-Brandenburg D.I, Hansa-Brandenburg CC, and Hansa-Brandenburg KDW.
Austro-Hungary received 47 Hansa Brandenburg W.18 aircraft, from September 1917 to May 1918, using them to provide air-defence for ports and naval bases along the Adriatic sea coast. One Benz-engine example was delivered to the Imperial German Navy.
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