Lübeck-Travemünde F.2

The Lübeck- Travemünde F.2 was a German reconnaissance seaplane of the 1910s.

History

The F.2 was developed in the aircraft maintenance Lübeck -Travemünde GmbH, a subsidiary of the German aircraft factories Leipzig and built from 1914. It was the first armed seaplane, which was manufactured in Travemünde.

The two-seater biplane with a wingspan of about 19 ​​meters, which was based B- types on the body of the DFW was equipped with amphibious floats. Designer was Heinrich Oelerich. As an eight-cylinder engine 220 ​​hp (164 kW ) Mercedes D.IV engine was used with transmission and a four-bladed wooden propeller. The crew consisted of a pilot and an observer in a tandem seating arrangement. The observer space was equipped with a 7.92 mm Parabellum machine gun, which was mounted on a turntable.

Eleven machines of the type F.2 were used by the naval forces of the German Empire. Stationed the machines were on the water airfield Travemünde- Priwall, which also housed the pilot school of the Imperial Navy. The whereabouts of the machines is not known in the literature.

The Navy assigned numbers were 677 and 1147 to 1156, the various machines in varied dimensions and weights. ; The following data relate to the F.2 with the No. 677