Engineering:Kondor B.I

Short description: WWI German training aircraft

B.I
Role	Trainer aircraft
National origin	Germany
Manufacturer	Kondor Flugzeugwerke, Essen
Designer	Walter Rethel
First flight	January 1918

The Kondor B.I was a German two seat, biplane training aircraft designed and built close to the end of World War I.

Design and development

The Kondor B.I was built as a trainer aircraft of all-wood construction at the end of 1917. It was revolutionary in terms of reducing the number of parts necessary for the assembly of the aircraft to a minimum.

The first flight of the aircraft took place in January 1918. After successful test flights, a small batch of B.Is was ordered.

Specifications

Data from

General characteristics

• Crew: One
• Length: 6.85 m (22 ft 6 in)
• Wingspan: 9.50 m (31 ft 2 in)
• Empty weight: 806 kg (1,777 lb)
• Gross weight: 1,150 kg (2,535 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Mercedes D.II 6-cylinder, liquid-cooled inline engine, 89 kW (120 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed wooden fixed-pitch propeller

Performance

Further reading

• German Aircraft of the First World War (2nd ed.). London: Putnam. 1987. ISBN 0-85177-809-7. 
• Herris, Jack (2020). German Aircraft of Minor Manufacturers in WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes. Gret War Aviation Centennial Series (49). 1: Alter to Korn. n.p.: Aeronaut Books. ISBN 978-1-935881-85-8.