Rumpler
| Industry | Aircraft manufacture |
|---|---|
| Fate | Liquidated |
| Founded | 1909 |
| Defunct | 1920 |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
Key people | Edmund Rumpler |
Rumpler Flugzeugwerke, usually known simply as Rumpler was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Berlin by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrtzeugbau.[1] The firm originally manufactured copies of the Etrich Taube monoplane, but turned to building reconnaissance biplanes of its own design through the course of the First World War, in addition to a smaller number of fighters and bombers.[1][2]
Rumpler failed to secure a place in the post-war market, and was liquidated in 1920.[1]
Aircraft
Rumpler 6B1 lineup
William Augustus Wellman of Escadrille 89 in a captured German Rumpler
See also
- List of aircraft manufacturers
- List of Rumpler Aircraft
- Rumpler Tropfenwagen, a car designed by Edmund Rumpler after the liquidation of the company
Notes
References
- Gunston, Bill (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
- Kroschel, Günter; Helmut Stützer (1994). Die Deutschen Militärflugzeuge 1910–1918. Herford: Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn.
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