It was the 26th of October 1914 and the aircraft was a 100hp bird shaped Taube monoplane built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik, the bombs dropped harmlessly on Dover and, as the event went completely unnoticed by the British, no one was harmed. 1:32 Gotha UWD Wingnut Wings Catalogue # 32053. Archive photos. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Wingnut Wings 1/32 German Gotha UWD 32053 at the best online prices at eBay! Additionally the fuselage design was considered weak and it was considered to be underpowered. But the next significant bombing raid on the UK by Gotha aircraft would cause considerable loss of life, widespread panic, disruption to the British war effort and an effect on moral out of all proportion to their actual military effectiveness. They should also be available from your regular preferred Wingnut Wings supplier. There would only be 18 Gotha G.1 built in total because the fast progressing development of combat aircraft meant that it was considered obsolete shortly after entering service in July and almost all of them had been retired from front line service by February 1916. The initial production orders for 6 Gotha G.1 land based aircraft and 1 Ursinus Wasser Doppeldecker (UWD) seaplane were placed in April 1915. Ursinus proposed the idea of building his Kampfflugzeug (battle plane) to FEA 3 commander Major Friedel in August 1914. - 63cm x 44cm - High quality Cartograf decals - 274 high quality injection moulded plastic parts - 4 photo-etched metal detail parts - 160hp Daimler-Mercedes D.III engines - 10kg Carbonit bombs & LMG 14 Parabellum machine gun armament - Fine in scale rib tape detail - Full rigging diagrams. All metal brackets, cowlings, panels and struts appear to have been painted a very very light grey, almost white colour. Released in December 2010 - Sold out on 5 December 2016 - 74cm x 38cm - High quality Cartograf decals for 5 aircraft - 436 high quality injection moulded plastic parts - Optional parts for Gotha and LVG built aircraft - 2 highly detailed Daimler-Mercedes D.IVa engines - 22 photo-etched metal detail parts - Fine in scale rib tapes - Full rigging diagrams - 73cm (29”) wingspan - 40 page fully illustrated instruction manual According to German reports a Gotha dropped the 1st ever German bombs on the United Kingdom just short of 3 months after hostilities commenced.
The UWD was one of several different twin engine seaplanes ordered by the Navy to fit their requirements for a long range reconnaissance and torpedo carrying aircraft. Colour schemes. Colour photos. Instructions. Pre-order deposit payment in full with 100% refund available upon request up to 26 April 2019 (NZ time). The sole UWD was completed in late December 1915 and given the Naval serial number 120. plane was developed from the Gotha G.1 land plane and although only one was ever built, the highly distinctive twin engined Gotha UWD is nevertheless important because it helped set Gothaer Waggonfabrik on the path to building the more conventional seaplanes and bombers that they became famous for. The cockpit top coaming and rear section of the fuselage appear to have been finished similarly, although these may have simply been overpainted with a darker version of field grey. This time it was the 25th of May 1917 and the bombs were delivered by twenty three 520hp Gotha G.IV bombers of Kagohl 3, purpose built for attacking mainland Great Britain and capable of carrying a 600kg bomb load (although most carried just 300kg on this raid). The interior wooden parts appear to have been darkly varnished. The aircraft that would serve as the prototype Gotha G.1 was designed by Oskar Ursinus (the founder and editor of Flugsport magazine) to the German Army"s Type III aircraft specifications of a 200hp, 3 seater able to fly at over 120kph and carry 450kg for up to 6 hours. Construction began the following month utilizing Flieger-Ersatz-Abteilung 3 (FEA 3) personnel and the Friedel-Ursinus Kampffugzeug “FU”, having now been given the serial number B.1092/14, took to the air at the end of January 1915. The extraordinary Gotha G.1 design of 1915 was the first in a line of famous twin engine bombers built by Gotha in the First World War. The wooden nose and floats appear to have been painted with a black bituminous tar based transparent varnish for protection.

To facilitate transport by rail, the fuselage could be disassembled into 3 sections which did nothing to help with structural rigidity. The high position of the partially armour plated fuselage offered great visibility but provided little protection to the crew in the event of a nose over crash. Type 1: A two seater, 130hp, for longer flights, carrying a small … Model images. After further evaluation and minor changes “FU” B.1092/14 was sent to the eastern front for operational trials.The license to build the “FU” Kampfflugzeug was allocated to Gothaer Waggonfabrik in March 1915 and incorporated many changes including 160hp Daimler-Mercedes D.III and 150hp Benz Bz.III engines, nearly equal span wings, bomb carrying capacity, wheel type control column and a modified tailplane. Free shipping for many products! Photographic evidence shows that the fuselage linen, wings and tailplane of the UWD was opaque (not translucent) and appears to have been finished in all over field grey.
The distinctive high fuselage allowed the two 100hp Daimler-Mercedes D.1 engines to be placed as close together as possible to minimize yaw effects should one engine fail. Out of Stock. Quantity must be 1 or more Quantity. It may not be the most aesthetically pleasing design and it certainly has something of the Dastardly and Muttley about it but the …