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]
Industry | Aircraft manufacture |
---|---|
Fate | Liquidated |
Founded | 1909 |
Defunct | 1920 |
Headquarters | |
Key people | Edmund Rumpler |
Rumpler failed to secure a place in the post-war market, and was liquidated in 1920.[1]
Aircraft
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Hellmuth Hirth (Middle.) and Rumpler (right.) 1911
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Rumpler 6B1 lineup
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William Augustus Wellman of Escadrille 89 in a captured German Rumpler 1918
- Rumpler 6B
- Rumpler B.I
- Rumpler C.I
- Rumpler C.III
- Rumpler C.IV
- Rumpler C.V
- Rumpler C.VI
- Rumpler C.VII
- Rumpler C.VIII
- Rumpler C.X
- Rumpler D.I
- Rumpler G.I
- Rumpler G.II
- Rumpler G.III
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
- Gunston 1993, p.259
- Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.100
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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