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  • Friedrichshafen G.II
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  • {| |} The Friedrichshafen G.II (factory designation FF.38) was a medium bomber aircraft that was designed and manufactured in Germany during World War I by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen. The plane was used by the Luftstreitkräfte (German Imperial Air Service) for tactical and limited strategic bombing operations.
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empty weight kg
  • 1930
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met or eng?
  • met
Produced
  • 1916
eng1 type
gross weight kg
  • 3171
length in
  • 5
primary user
  • Luftstreitkräfte
Type
  • Bomber
eng1 kW
  • 149
wing area sqft
  • 807
height m
  • 3.650000
Height in
  • 0
span m
  • 19.700000
perfhide
  • Y
Manufacturer
  • Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH
empty weight lb
  • 4254
length m
  • 11.410000
length ft
  • 37
Height ft
  • 12
First Flight
  • July
span ft
  • 64
gross weight lb
  • 6991
span in
  • 8
wing area sqm
  • 75
Crew
  • Three
Armament
  • 3
  • 300
Number Built
  • 35
eng1 hp
  • 200
Designer
eng1 number
  • 2
abstract
  • {| |} The Friedrichshafen G.II (factory designation FF.38) was a medium bomber aircraft that was designed and manufactured in Germany during World War I by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen. The plane was used by the Luftstreitkräfte (German Imperial Air Service) for tactical and limited strategic bombing operations. While the G.I had been a generally successful design it was clear it needed further improvement before it was fit for combat. The G.I was thus developed further into the G.II. The wings now only had two pairs of interplane struts on each side of the fuselage and the box shaped tail unit was replaced by a simple horizontal and vertical stabilizer assembly. Experience with the G.I had shown it to be underpowered and the G.II had more powerful six-cylinder 150 kW (200 hp) Benz Bz.IV engines installed which increased the bomb load. The increase in power also enabled the installation of a second defensive machine gun aft of the wings between the propellers which were still mounted in a pusher configuration. The crew still consisted of three men, a rear gunner, a pilot and a bomb aimer who doubled as a nose gunner.