Other triplanes
 

Several other companies produced Triplanes. Were any of them actually used in combat? Why hasn't more been heard about them?

I think the Pfalz Triplane was quite pretty. The second picture is an Albatross, (ok, maybe somewhat obvious) What other triplanes were built?

among other triplane used (and produced in serie) there were
the soptwith, some of the capronni bomber and a french flying boat (levy besson but it may have been a levy someone else)

bow we can ask what triplane was the most widely produce (I will tend to believe it was the capronni if anyone have some data)

There was quite a rush to emulate the success of the Sopwith tripe. Blackburn actually built one before Sopwith, in 1915. It was a pusher. some others:
Austin Osprey
Armstrong-Whitworth FK-12
Sopwith (Hispano engine)
Sopwith Snark
DFW Dr-1
AEG Dr-1
Albatros Dr-1
Sablatnig SF-4
Roland D-IV
Nieuport triplane(at least 3 different ones)
And that's just some of the fighters.There were lots of quads and multiplanes, too. And bombers......

Avro had a rather successful - relatively speaking - pre-war triplane. A replica was built for and flown in Those Magnificent Men and is now part of the Shuttleworth collection.

The Siemens-Schuckert Dr.I was one of the more unorthodox wartime designs. It wasn't succesful.

Brandenburg L.16 Dreidecker
 

Hi,

Here a picture of the Brandenburg L.16 Dreidecker. It was a purely experimental model triplane. It was developed to test a variety of radiators and their positions for the 185hp Austro-Daimler engine.


Jos

Tripes
 

It might be interesting to compile a list of all the 3- or 4-wing aircraft that were built during the war years. There would probably be over 50! My current favorite is a quadruplane fighter, the Supermarine/Pemberton Billing P.B.31E. Two were built, with two 100 HP 9-cylinder radials and a 60-foot upper wing span. It had a 1.5 pdr Davis non-recoil gun in a "fighting top" on the upper wing and two Lewis guns. A young Reginald J. Mitchell was on the design team.

Hello Tripehound,

You can add (among many other):

for the British side :
Felixstowe Fury (also know as Big Porte Boat) and Bristol Braemer or Braemar (I've the two transcriptions).

for the German side :
LVG G.III, Schütte Lanz Dr.I and Naglo quadruplane

for the Italian side :
Caproni Ca 4, 40, 42 and Pensuti Caproni

For the USA side :
Curtiss Triplane 18T

Best regards from Belgium

Philippe

Curtiss Triplane
 

Hi,


Curtiss built this model in 1917. It was powered with an OXX2 engine of 100 hp.


Jos

In my previous post, I missed also :

Sopwith Rhino, Sopwith Cobham and Armstrong Whitworth FK-10 quadraplane.

Best regards from Belgium

Philippe

Curtiss Triplanes
 

Curtiss also flew the L-1 side by side two seat triplane for the Army and the L-2, loatplane version for the Navy. The Curtiss Speed Scouts A-149 and A-150 were also triplanes as was the GS-1. The Curtiss 18T was specially designed as an escort for flying boats and was to achieve a height record post-war as well as a racing seaplane. See Tom Foxworth's "The Speed Seekers".

The old "Fighting Triplanes" by Hardingham(?) and a later book by Pete Bowers lists triplanes. There were plenety, but most were unsuccessful.

Colin A Owers