Pfalz D.VI

The Pfalz D.VI was a German single-seat sesquiplane fighter of the First World War, built by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke and never put into production. It was a single bay design with parallel chord wings whose lower plane was smaller in span and chord than the upper one, with interplane struts similar to those of the Pfalz D.III and a nearly circular fuselage covered in plywood. Power came from a nine cylinder 82 kW (110 hp) Oberursel U.II rotary engine driving a two blade propeller with a large spinner, and armament was a pair of fixed LMG 08/15 7.9 mm machine guns. The D.VI was one of three Pfalz aircraft, with the D.VII and D.VIII, entered in the first D-type contest at Adlershof in January and February 1918. It gained its Type Certificate in September 1918 but failed to win a production order.