Albatros G.I

The Albatros G.I, with the post-war company designation L.4, was a four-engined German biplane bomber of the First World War, designed at the Ostdeutsche Albatroswerke, the Schneidemühl company that Otto Wiener and Walter Huth founded in April 1914 and that stayed close to Albatros until October 1917. It was one of the few homegrown designs of that company, inspired by the Sikorsky Ilya Muromets, with a wooden, wire-braced, fabric-covered structure and four engines in nacelles on the upper surface of the lower wing. Alexander Hipleh first flew it on 31 January 1916. Trials showed poor flying qualities and poor performance, so further development was abandoned; the later G.II and G.III were lighter twin-engined designs unrelated to it.