LVG E.I

LVG E.I
LVG E.I prototype serial E.600/15.
General information
Type	Fighter aircraft
Manufacturer	LVG (Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft)
Designer	Franz Schneider
Primary user	Luftstreitkräfte
Number built	1
History
First flight	1915

The LVG E.I was a German two-seat monoplane of World War I. The E.I was unusual among monoplanes of its time in that it featured ailerons as opposed to the then-conventional (for monoplanes) wing warping.

It was fitted with both a rearward firing machine gun, mounted on a flexible ring mounting, and a forward firing synchronized machine gun and was very probably the first aircraft to be so armed.

The only prototype was destroyed on its way to the front for testing in 1915; as such, very little is known about the E.I, or its synchronization gear.

List of operators

• German Empire

Specifications

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Powerplant: 1 × Mercedes D.II 6-cylinder water-cooled in-line piston engine, 89 kW (119 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller

PerformanceArmament

• Guns: 1 × front mounted synchronised machine gun, 1 × rear mounted machine gun

Bibliography

• Green, William & Swanborough, Gordon (2001) [1994]. The Complete Book of Fighters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every Fighter Built and Flown (Revised and Updated ed.). London: Salamander Books. ISBN   1-84065-269-1.
• Herris, Jack (2016). LVG Aircraft of WWI: Volume 3: C.VI–C.XI & Fighters: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes. Great War Aviation Centennial Series. Vol. 36. Charleston, South Carolina: Aeronaut Books. ISBN   978-1-935881-74-2.