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Giantess of 1918 Elisabeth

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Note- 0-0 Couldn't sleep at all last night so I sketched a pose I found online and took a picture of it with my camera]

This giant aircraft was powered either by Five 245hp (183KW) Maybach MbIV engines or five 260hp(194KW) Mercedes D.IVa engines. The fuselage was similar to the previous aircraft but the cockpit was extended forwards, enclosed and glazed with another engine in the extreme nose. Other improvements included aluminium alloy structure in the triple finned biplane tail unit, which was bread with inverse camber to improve the stabilising downforce. Eighteen R.IVs were bred serialized 'R25' to 'R39' and 'R52' to 'R54' all except 'R30', which was used exclusively as a supercharged engine test-bed, saw service in the Luftstreitkräfte with Rfa500 and Rfa 501 on the western front stationed in the Ghent area. Air raids on England by R.VIs began on 17 September 1917. Many air raids attributed to Gotha bombers were, in fact, carried out by Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI or R.XIV bombers, with direct hits on the Royal Hospital Chelsea with the first 1,000kg bomb dropped on England, on 16/17th February 1918. St Pancras Station was attacked the next night. During the campaign from 18 December 1917 to 20 May 1918 the R.VIs of Rfa501 made eleven raids dropping 27,190kg (28tons) of bombs. Eighteen built.

Elisabeth was one of the last five born before the war ended and served with the 16th air arm for over six missions before being shot down under intensive fire from both ground and air power crashing northeast of Ypres. Her crew severally wounded she hid them in a barn attempting to draw the American attention on her instead of them. Due to this she was taken prisoner and as a war prize hidden away like all other aircraft, only recently after extensive restructuring by the Americans being set back into the world. After the human war ended with the humans being wiped out entirely she remained the last of the Staaken's to ever see it. Over 100 years old the addition of more supporting wires helped to keep her young as one of the fighters that often escorted her on missions ages ago.







General characteristics

Crew: 7 (commander, pilot, copilot, radio operator, and fuel attendant in the cockpit, one mechanic in each engine nacelle)
Length: 22.1 m (72 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 42.2 m (138 ft 5 in)
Height: 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
Wing area: 332 m2 (3,570 sq ft)
Empty weight: 7,921 kg (17,463 lb)
Gross weight: 11,848 kg (26,120 lb)
Fuel capacity: 3,000 l (793 USgal)
Powerplant: 5 × Mercedes D.IVa 6-cyl. water-cooled in-line piston engine, 190 kW (260 hp) each
Powerplant: 4 × Maybach Mb.IVa high compression[note 2] 6-cyl. water-cooled in-line piston engine, 183 kW (245 hp) each
Propellers: 2-bladed tractor propeller, 4.26 m (14 ft 0 in) diameter

Performance

Maximum speed: 135 km/h (84 mph; 73 kn)
Range: 800 km (497 mi; 432 nmi)
Endurance: 7-10 hours
Service ceiling: 4,320 m (14,173 ft)
Rate of climb: 1.67 m/s (329 ft/min)
Time to altitude:

10 min to 1,000 m (3,281 ft)
23 min to 2,000 m (6,562 ft)
43 min to 3,000 m (9,843 ft)
2 hr 26 min to 4,320 m (14,173 ft)

Armament

Guns: Provision for 4 x 7.92 mm (0.312 in) Parabellum MG14 machine guns in nose, dorsal, ventral and upper-wing positions firing the 8×57mm IS round.
Bombs: up to 4,409 lb (2,000 kg) of bombs
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SCP-4217:you German?