AEG B.I

The AEG B.I was a German two-seat biplane built for unarmed reconnaissance and produced in very small numbers in 1914 by the electrical combine Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft. It flew with a single water-cooled Mercedes six-cylinder inline piston engine of about 74.5 kilowatts, spanned 14.5 metres and weighed 650 kilograms empty, with a top speed near 100 kilometres per hour. It served with the German Army air service, the Luftstreitkräfte, and its main importance is as the starting point from which AEG developed its more successful B-type and C-type aircraft that followed during the First World War.