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Re: Photos Taube Tripoli 1911
Hi Clint
The book is I velivoli (La Storica dell'Aeronautica Militare)
With regard to Etrich, did he actually form a factory of his own?
Beside building the few initial gliders/protoypes, my feeling is the made a deal with Lohner and had them mass produce his aircraft and I also believe he let them develop the type (or perhaps they did so together).
Lohner built a lot of Tauben!
If you check the book Flugzeuge der Österreichischen firma Lohner 1909-1923 by Reinhard Keimel. In that one you find that the initial Italian order was for a serie A aircraft (KuK military designation IX) which had been ordered built by the MLG (five aircraft).
The Italian aircraft had Auftragsnummer AC.433 (order receipt 3 Feb 1911 and invoice date 28 March 1911). First flight was made by Karl Illner 26 April 1911
The military designation Etrich X was also a Serie A, but an aircraft which was delivered to Russia.
The book is a real must if you are interested in Lohner and is very, very detailed.
Yes, Etrich was quite rightly a rather unhappy man, and it seems he never got a DM out of Rumpler. He also lost out in court if I remember correctly making the German market totally open for anyone who wanted to use his design features.
Cheers
Stig
PS: The second Italian aircraft was it seems a Serie E and actually an Etrich X, with Auftragsnummer AC.851, order receipt 18 April 1912 and invoice date 11 June 1912. No delivery date has been found by Keimel
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