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Stressed skin, or merely a metal monocoque.? edit
Was this really a stressed skin, pre-dating the Silver Streak, which is generally credited as being the first with a stressed skin? What does the cited source actually say? Andy Dingley (talk) 02:54, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
- Your "generally credited" Flight magazine says it was stressed skin (without using the phrase, which had yet to come into common use)...
Although being a land machine, and thus having no direct relation to the development of the Dornier flying boats, a machine produced early in 1918 is of more than ordinary interest, as being probably the first all-metal machine in the world in which the metal covering not only of the fuselage but also of the wings is designed to take part of the stresses.
— unk. author, Some Dornier Milestones, Flight Magazine 23 December 1920 p.1290
- Opening paragraph from the book on the Zeppelin D.I...
The revolutionary Dornier D.I all-metal prototype fighter has been called 'the most structurally advanced aircraft of any nation to fly in World War One,' a statement with which I emphatically agree.(1) Venturing one step further, it can be shown that the prototype's stressed-skin construction differed little from the jet transports flying today.
— Peter M. Grosz, Dornier D.I, Windsock Mini Datafile 12
- (reference is to the identity of the aircraft)
- I suspect furthermore that Oswald Short likely saw the report the Inter-Allied Technical Commission published on the Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.IV, which provided all the details (including extensive drawings) needed to build a large seaplane from sheet aluminium alloy - his contribution being limited to a round fuselage rather than Dornier's boxes.NiD.29 (talk) 06:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Engine edit
I've fixed the engine (absence of) problem but are weights and performance figs for the BMWIIIa or another? Need Kössler for this and I've not got it.TSRL (talk) 18:17, 12 November 2019 (UTC)