The Etrich Taube is an early monoplane aircraft designed by the Austrian engineer Igo Etrich, first flown around 1910 and named Taube, German for dove, for its distinctive swept, bird-like wing shape inspired by the naturally gliding seed of the Zanonia macrocarpa plant. Widely license-built by numerous German manufacturers in the years before and into the First World War, it became one of the first aircraft types used for military purposes by Austria-Hungary and Germany, flying early reconnaissance missions and, in isolated cases, some of the first aerial bombing attacks in history, before more specialized and higher-performance military aircraft made it obsolete within a few years.
Facts
SignificanceFirst military aeroplane mass-produced in Germany 1 Manufacturer or BuilderIgo Etrich (designer); licensed to Lohner-Werke and Edmund Rumpler 1 Sources
1. Etrich Taube (Wikipedia)
Introduction
The Taube was designed in 1909 by Igo Etrich of Austria-Hungary, and first flew in 1910.
Design and production
It was licensed for serial production by Lohner-Werke in Austria and by Edmund Rumpler in Germany, now called the Etrich-Rumpler-Taube.
Operational history
It was the first military aeroplane to be mass-produced in Germany.
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