Kondor Dreidecker

History

Kondor Flugzeugwerke of Essen, Germany (then German Reich) worked on the construction of Albatros B.II and B.IIa series biplane fighters during the First World War, until mid-1917 when the company was informed of the arrival of the designer Walther Benefited were Rethel and Paul G. Ehrhardt, who previously worked at the competing LVG (Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft). The company's first original aircraft was the Kondor "Dreidecker", a single-seat, single-engine fighter with three-blade wings.

A prototype of this aircraft made its maiden flight in October 1917. However, the design did not perform well with its original engine (make and model unknown), and was modified with a liquid-cooled Mercedes D.III 6-cylinder powerplant rated at 160 hp (this still drives the twin on the nose) blade propeller).

In this form, the triplane didn't perform much better either, as the project was ultimately doomed to the only prototype due to the inability to overcome excessive vibrations.

A more traditionally designed biplane, the Kondor D.1, was also being developed at the same time, but even that model did not seem to perform better.

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