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The Giant Zeppelin Biplane

JF Ptak Science Books   Quick Post

I found these schematics in the November 16, 1918 issue of Engineering, published just a few days after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. No doubt the plans were made from a downed aircraft, and I suspect it was probably not published during the war.  This was about the largest plane produced during WWI, and it was a beast.  In any event, I’ve reproduced the plans below.

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And a larger version of the above, just because it looks so cool:

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