Other triplanes

CodyPaul · 28 January 2005, 11:21 PM

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?

gregoire · 29 January 2005, 01:28 AM

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)

R Pope · 29 January 2005, 05:22 AM

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......

EricGoedkoop · 29 January 2005, 05:37 AM

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.

Jos · 29 January 2005, 06:48 AM

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

Tripehound · 29 January 2005, 07:51 AM

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.

edmondthieffry · 29 January 2005, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Tripehound

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

Jos · 29 January 2005, 12:26 PM

Hi,

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

Jos

edmondthieffry · 29 January 2005, 01:11 PM

In my previous post, I missed also :

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

Best regards from Belgium

Philippe

Colin A Owers · 29 January 2005, 02:40 PM

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