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SEPTEMBER II, 1919 • 1 **<titjtf ^||| lis ^K.- I'll .'•/ / , ,, • ! 3? 'fggggsstotssB^" ^3^^^-BSvj -.' ,. iipwwWWWiMpiWI The Aviatik, Type R. The foregoing types represent the development in the two- seater class. The Aviatik firm has, however, also produced some single-seaters, known in Germany as the D class. Of these mention may be made of a few. The Aviatik, Type D II This machine, which was built in 1916, is similar in general lay-out to the Albatross and other scouts. It had a 160 h.p. The Aviatik, Type D III In 1918 another single-seater type was brought out. This machine, which had the series number D III, was fitted with a Vee type 195 h.p. eight-cylindered high-speed Benz engine. As other machines of the D type it had one pair of struts aside, and it was similar to the type C VIII, in that it had a keel structure projecting down from the bottom of the fuselage, to which was attached the bottom plane. The Si Si S Si The Aviatik, Si Type D VII, s Sporting machine. K Si <S Si iS K Si Mercedes engine, and the radiator was placed in the centre section of the top plane. Although the body construction was the usual German one of a light framework covered with ply-wood, steel was used for the inter-plane and centre- section struts, and also for the undercarriage and engine- bearers. The pilot's seat was carried on a rearward ex tension of the channel section steel engine-bearers. planes were heavily staggered, so as to give the pilot a better view. The radiator was placed in the top plane. As in the case of our own machines, there came a time when engines became of such increased size and the evolutions to be carried out during fights in the air of so strenuous a nature that the single-pair-of-struts-aside type of single- seater was no longer equal to it. Consequently, it became S iS S 1 The Aviatik ^ Limousine, ^ Type F. ^ s; s; 1229
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