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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => WW1 Aircraft Information/Questions => Topic started by: RLWP on April 06, 2021, 07:16:40 PM

Title: LVG E.IV/E.I - where's the radiator?
Post by: RLWP on April 06, 2021, 07:16:40 PM

This is the one and only LVG E.I two seater of 1916:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/LVG_E_I_right.png)

It has a couple of interesting features, the first use of a ring mount for an observer in a German machine and a forward firing synchronised gun with an unknown sychronising mechanism

It has a water cooled 120hp Mercedes D.II engine, there's a huge water tank on top of the engine - but where is the radiator? There doesn't seem to be a surviving front view of this aeroplane, how did contemporary monoplanes solve this problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVG_E.I (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVG_E.I)

Richard

Title: Re: LVG E.IV/E.I - where's the radiator?
Post by: Berman on April 06, 2021, 07:41:37 PM

 I do not think that is just a large water tank on top of the engine. It appears to be a roughly cylindrical radiator. Slightly curved sides with a circular rear.