Talk:Zeppelin-Lindau D.I

Stressed skin, or merely a metal monocoque.?
Was this really a stressed skin, pre-dating the Silver Streak, which is generally credited as being the first with a stressed skin? What does the cited source actually say? Andy Dingley (talk) 02:54, 30 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Your "generally credited" Flight magazine says it was stressed skin (without using the phrase, which had yet to come into common use)...


 * Opening paragraph from the book on the Zeppelin D.I...


 * (reference is to the identity of the aircraft)
 * I suspect furthermore that Oswald Short likely saw the report the Inter-Allied Technical Commission published on the Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.IV, which provided all the details (including extensive drawings) needed to build a large seaplane from sheet aluminium alloy - his contribution being limited to a round fuselage rather than Dornier's boxes.NiD.29 (talk) 06:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Engine
I've fixed the engine (absence of) problem but are weights and performance figs for the BMWIIIa or another? Need Kössler for this and I've not got it.TSRL (talk) 18:17, 12 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Think it's right, based on the rate of climb.TSRL (talk) 18:22, 12 November 2019 (UTC)