Friedrichshafen FF.49 explained
Friedrichshafen FF.49 was a German, two-seat, single-engine float-plane designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1917.
Variants
- FF.39:Two-seat reconnaissance float-plane, powered by a 150kW Benz Bz.IV water-cooled 6-cylinder piston engine. 14 built.
FF.49b:Two-seat bomber float-plane. 25 built.
FF.49c:Two-seat reconnaissance float-plane.
LFG V 1: Redesigned civil derivative of FF.49c by Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft (LFG) with wider fuselage, modified wing profile and seats for three passengers in raised cabin. Two converted 1919.[1]
LFG V 2: Redesigned civil derivative of FF.49c by LFG with wider fuselage, modified wing profile and seats for five passengers in two cabins. Two converted 1919.[1]
Orlogsværftet HB.II:Seven FF.49s re-conditioned at the Orlogsværftet / Flyvetroppernes Værksteder in Denmark.
Operators
- Royal Danish Navy
Danish Air Lines started operations with a FF.49 equipped to carry two passengers on the Copenhagen–Warnemünde on 7 August 1920.[2]
- Finnish Air Force (four FF.49C, one FF.49B; in use 1918–1923)
- Kaiserliche Marine
- Deutsche Luft-Reederei[3]
Luftdeinst
Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft operated LFG V1 and V2s on passenger services between Stralsund and Rügen and joyriding at Baltic beach resorts 1919–1920.[1]
Lloyd Luftverkehr Sablatnig[4]
Netherlands
Royal Netherlands Navy
- (four FF.49C, by A/S Aero)
- Polish Air Force (postwar)
- Swedish Navy (postwar), (two FF.49C, in use 1919–1924)
Bibliography
- Book: Borzutzki . Siegfried . Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH: Diplom-Ingenieur Theodor Kober . 1993 . de . Burbach . Berlin . 3-927513-60-1. Friedrichshafen Aircraft Company: Diploma-Engineer Theodore Kober.
- Book: Herris . Jack . Friedrichshafen Aircraft of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes . 2016 . Aeronaut Books . Charleston, South Carolina . 978-1-935881-35-3. Great War Aviation Centennial Series. 21.
- Klaauw. Bart van der. Unexpected Windfalls: Accidentally or Deliberately, More than 100 Aircraft 'arrived' in Dutch Territory During the Great War . Air Enthusiast . March–April 1999 . 80 . 54–59 . 0143-5450.
- Book: Nelcarz. Bartolomiej. Peczkowski. Robert. amp . White Eagles: The Aircraft, Men and Operations of the Polish Air Force 1918–1939. Ottringham, UK . Hikoki Publications . 2001. 1-902109-73-2.
- Book: Stroud, John . European Transport Aircraft since 1920 . 1966 . London . Putnam.
- Stroud . John . Wings of Peace . . April 1990 . 18 . 4 . 241–247 . 0143-7240.
Notes and References
- Stroud Aeroplane Monthly April 1990, pp. 241–242
- Stroud 1966, p. 279
- Stroud 1966, p. 280
- Stroud 1966, pp. 279–280
