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  • Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI
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  • The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of World War I, and the only so-called Riesenflugzeug ("giant aircraft") design built in any quantity. The R.VI was the most numerous of the R-bombers built by Germany, and also among the earliest closed-cockpit military aircraft (the first being the Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets). The bomber was reputedly the largest wooden aircraft to be produced in any quantity during World War I, with only the Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII prototype bomber of 1918-1919 being larger, with the Staaken R.VI's wingspan of nearly equaling that of the World War II Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and somewhat less than the span of the Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII.
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empty weight kg
  • 7921
eng2 hp
  • 245
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prop blade number
  • 2
eng2 type
  • high compression 6-cyl. water-cooled in-line piston engine
range km
  • 800
Guns
  • Provision for 4 x Parabellum MG14 machine guns in nose, dorsal, ventral and upper-wing positions firing the 8×57mm IS round.
eng2 name
Endurance
  • -36000.0
Produced
  • 1917
time to altitude
  • 8760.0
eng1 type
  • 6
gross weight kg
  • 11848
primary user
  • Luftstreitkräfte
Type
  • Bomber
eng2 number
  • 4
height m
  • 6.300000
bombs
  • up to of bombs
span m
  • 42.200000
climb rate ms
  • 1.670000
Manufacturer
max speed kmh
  • 135
ceiling m
  • 4320
length m
  • 22.100000
prop dia m
  • 4.260000
First Flight
  • 1916
wing area sqm
  • 332
prime units?
  • met
variants with their own articles
prop name
  • tractor propeller
Crew
  • 7
Number Built
  • 18
eng1 name
eng1 hp
  • 260
Designer
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  • The German Giants
eng1 number
  • 4
abstract
  • The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of World War I, and the only so-called Riesenflugzeug ("giant aircraft") design built in any quantity. The R.VI was the most numerous of the R-bombers built by Germany, and also among the earliest closed-cockpit military aircraft (the first being the Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets). The bomber was reputedly the largest wooden aircraft to be produced in any quantity during World War I, with only the Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII prototype bomber of 1918-1919 being larger, with the Staaken R.VI's wingspan of nearly equaling that of the World War II Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and somewhat less than the span of the Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII.
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