Maveric said:Hi my friends,
I hope one of you can help. I need informations (pics, drawings, data sheet) of the german WWI flying boat Oertz W.7...
I can´t find anything. I hope of you!!!
Thanks Maveric
The successes of the American flying boat gave an additional impetus to the work of the Oertz company, and they combined with the Brandenburg Aircraft Company to build two large flying boats with two engines of 300 h.p. each. The bodies of these boats were finished when the terms of the armistice brought all construction to a sudden end.
This aircraft, subsequently designated the W 35 has an obscure origin. Because of their experience in constructing large flying boat hulls, the firm of Oertz was chosen to construct the hull. It is believed that Oertz was in fact the designer of the W 35. But because the firm was taken over by Hansa-Brandenburg on 1 October, 1918, it appears in all of the documents as a Hansa-Brandenburg design. Certainly both companies influenced the design of the W 35; the wing is reminiscent of the Brandenburg W 29, and the wide hull is typically Oertz. By the wars end the Oertz shops had completed two hulls, but no further work was done.
I think , it is the W.8 (little floats at the wings end + inclined external wings struts)Another picture from the photo archive of Bruno Lange at the website of the Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin ("Flugboot W 7 mit Daimler im Boot, Marine-Nr. 474"): https://www.sdtb.findbuch.net/php/m...312e303036&ve_vnum=1048#56492e312e303036x1759