Talk:Zeppelin-Lindau D.I

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Stressed skin, or merely a metal monocoque.?[edit]

Was this really a stressed skin, pre-dating the Silver Streak, which is generally credited as being the first with a stressed skin? What does the cited source actually say? Andy Dingley (talk) 02:54, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your "generally credited" Flight magazine says it was stressed skin (without using the phrase, which had yet to come into common use)...

Although being a land machine, and thus having no direct relation to the development of the Dornier flying boats, a machine produced early in 1918 is of more than ordinary interest, as being probably the first all-metal machine in the world in which the metal covering not only of the fuselage but also of the wings is designed to take part of the stresses.
— unk. author, Some Dornier Milestones, Flight Magazine 23 December 1920 p.1290

Opening paragraph from the book on the Zeppelin D.I...

The revolutionary Dornier D.I all-metal prototype fighter has been called 'the most structurally advanced aircraft of any nation to fly in World War One,' a statement with which I emphatically agree.(1) Venturing one step further, it can be shown that the prototype's stressed-skin construction differed little from the jet transports flying today.
— Peter M. Grosz, Dornier D.I, Windsock Mini Datafile 12

(reference is to the identity of the aircraft)

I suspect furthermore that Oswald Short likely saw the report the Inter-Allied Technical Commission published on the Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.IV, which provided all the details (including extensive drawings) needed to build a large seaplane from sheet aluminium alloy - his contribution being limited to a round fuselage rather than Dornier's boxes.NiD.29 (talk) 06:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Engine[edit]

I've fixed the engine (absence of) problem but are weights and performance figs for the BMWIIIa or another? Need Kössler for this and I've not got it.TSRL (talk) 18:17, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Think it's right, based on the rate of climb.TSRL (talk) 18:22, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]