Schwade Kampfeinsitzer Nr.1

History of Swath Combat Single Seat No. 1

In 1914, the Schward Company of Erfurt, Germany, was working on a new biplane fighter design known as the "1". The aircraft relied on a traditional biplane wing arrangement (upper and lower elements) supported by wiring and parallel struts.

The wings sit above and below a small circular fuselage cabin that houses an open-air cockpit seat. The tail is supported by the mass of the aircraft, and the triangular struts also support the tail surface. The fuselage nacelles also contained the engines and weapons.

The former was arranged in a "propeller" configuration, driving a two-bladed wooden propeller, while the latter became a flexible mounted single machine gun. The landing gear is a simple two-legged, two-wheel configuration with a tail skid that supports the tail.

Its design is very consistent with the aircraft of the early days of World War I - simple, fragile and sufficiently lacking in better alternatives. The machine gun on the nose has a clear firing angle due to the engine being located in the rear of the nacelle, and the armament includes a 1 x 7.92 mm Bergmann LMG 15 series machine gun.

Despite the agility of the weapon, the pilot becomes difficult to control his aircraft while simultaneously aiming his weapon at moving targets in the sky.

The design was powered by an 80 hp Schwade Stahlherz 7-cylinder rotary piston engine.

While promise #1 was fulfilled, only one example was completed before attention turned to the more promising #1. 2 Design a two-armed biplane fighter design.

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