Etrich Taube
1910 German multi-role aircraft family / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Etrich Taube, also known by the names of the various later manufacturers who built versions of the type, such as the Rumpler Taube, was a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft. It was the first military aeroplane to be mass-produced in Germany.
Etrich-Rumpler Taube | |
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Role | Bomber, surveillance, and trainer |
Manufacturer | Various |
Designer | Igo Etrich |
First flight | 1910 |
Primary user | Luftstreitkräfte |
The Taube was very popular prior to the First World War, and it was also used by the air forces of Italy and Austria-Hungary. Even the Royal Naval Air Service operated at least one Taube in 1912. On 1 November 1911, Giulio Gavotti, an Italian aviator, dropped the world's first aerial bomb from his Taube monoplane over the Ain Zara oasis in Libya.[1] Once the war began, it quickly proved inadequate as a warplane and was soon replaced by other designs.