Pfalz D.VII

The Pfalz D.VII was a German single-seat biplane fighter of the First World War, built by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke and not put into production. It was a single bay biplane with staggered, parallel chord wings and ailerons on both the upper and lower planes, a rounded fuselage with the open cockpit just below the trailing edge of the upper wing, and a pair of fixed LMG 08/15 machine guns. Flight testing began near the end of 1917 with three rotary engines, the Oberursel U.III, the Goebel Goe.III and the Siemens-Halske Sh.III, driving both two and four blade propellers. The D.VII was one of three Pfalz aircraft, with the D.VI and D.VIII, entered in the first D-type contest at Adlershof in January and February 1918. It gained its Type Certificate in February 1918 but did not receive a production order.