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W. 13
Type Flying boat bomber
National origin Germany
Manufacturer Hansa-Brandenburg, UFAG
Designed by Ernst Heinkel
Maiden flight 1917
Primary user Austro-Hungarian Navy
Number built 130

The Hansa-Brandenburg W. An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing building testing selling and maintaining Aircraft, Aircraft parts Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke (more usually just Hansa-Brandenburg) was a German aircraft manufacturing company that operated during World War I Ernst Heinkel ( January 24 1888 &ndash January 30 1958) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer The maiden flight of an Aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1917: Events January January 27 - French air-raid on Freiburg The Austro-Hungarian Navy was the naval force of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 13 was a flying boat bomber developed in Germany in 1917 and used by the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I. The Austro-Hungarian Navy was the naval force of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was a largely conventional design for the time, with a single-step hull and an engine mounted pusher-fashion on struts in the interplane gap. The pilot and a gunner sat in tandem open cockpits at the bow. The interplane struts were unusual in that on each side of the aircraft, the upper and lower wings were braced with two pairs of struts that converged from two sets of attachment points on the upper wing to a single set on the lower wing, so that when viewed from fore or aft, the struts formed a V-shape. The type was first offered to the Imperial German Navy, but was rejected. The Kaiserliche Marine or Imperial Navy was the German Navy created by the formation of the German Empire. It was, however, accepted by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, which operated it from bases on the Adriatic Sea during the Italian Campaign. The Italian campaign refers to a series of battles fought between the armies of Austria-Hungary and Italy, along with their allies in northern Italy between 1915 Many of these were produced under licence by UFAG in Budapest. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, In service, the Austro-Daimler engine caused continuous problems, which the manufacturer attributed to the poor lubricating oil available at the front. Austro-Daimler was an Austrian Automaker company from 1899 until 1934 Since this situation seemed unlikely to change as the war situation deteriorated for Austria-Hungary, Austro-Daimler simply discontinued production of the engine, meaning that slightly over half the 130 W. 13s manufactured were left without a powerplant.

Several examples of the W. 13 were captured intact by Italian forces and studied; and one example that survived the war was handed over by Austria to the United States Navy as part of war reparations. This aircraft was shipped back to the Naval Aircraft Factory in the United States, where it was dismantled for study, reassembled, and test flown. The Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply

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