Hansa-Brandenburg W.11
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| W.11 | |
|---|---|
 A W.11 on its beaching trolley; the objects hanging down from the lower wings are identification pennants | |
| General information | |
| Type | Fighter seaplane |
| National origin | Germany |
| Manufacturer | Hansa-Brandenburg |
| Number built | 3 |
| History | |
| First flight | 1917 |
| Developed from | Hansa-Brandenburg KDW |
The Hansa-Brandenburg W.11 was a prototype floatplane fighter designed by the Hansa-Brandenburg Aircraft Company (Hansa Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke) for the Imperial German Navy's (Kaiserliche Marine) Naval Air Service (Marine-Fliegerabteilung) during World War I. It was a slightly enlarged version of the KDW fitted with a more powerful engine. Only three examples were built during 1916 and no production order followed. Their activities are not known with any detail, but one survived to the end of the war and was probably scrapped afterward.
The W.11 followed same configuration as the KDW, including the star-shaped interplane struts connecting the upper and lower wings, but was slightly larger. The latter's water-cooled 150-metric-horsepower (110 kW) Benz Bz.III straight-six engine was replaced by a 200 PS (147 kW) Benz Bz.IV straight-six engine that also drove a two-bladed fixed-pitch propeller. The aircraft retained the KDW's armament of two fixed, forward-firing 7.92-millimeter (0.312 in) LMG 08/15 machine guns.[1]
