Orange Aircraft

[Nobody]

While searching for usable aircraft I realized that most planes I knew as typical "WW1" did enter service in 1917/18 and therefore unusable under the 1913/1916 tech.
I hope that my choice for a single engine ground attack aircraft (fist flown January 1917 OTL) is acceptable.

May I present the Junkers Africa JuA-4

Technical specification:

	single engine, armored all-metal ground-attack sesquiplane
Crew	2
Length	9.1 m
Wingspan	16 m
Height	3.4 m
Powerplant	MTU* VB6 II, 200 hp 6-cylinder water-cooled inline engine
Empty weight	1766 kg
maximum take-off weight	2176 kg
Speed	155 km/h (97 mph)
Range	310 km (193 miles) in 2 hours**
Servie ceiling	4000 m
Armament	2 forward-fireing MG
	1 trainable rearward-fireing MG
	50 kg bombs

Pictures:


Also interesting: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-468/ch2-4.htm

Annotations
*Motoren und Turbinenunion, Suid-Afrika
** see here

[Walter]

While searching for usable aircraft I realized that most planes I knew as typical "WW1" did enter service in 1917/18 and therefore unusable under the 1913/1916 tech.

So why not look at the planes that were available in 1914-1916? Personally, I enjoyed it a lot looking through the variety of planes of the first half of WW1 that I've never seen. :)


Also, it surprises me that you jump straight to this one while Orange would have several other types of planes before this one which I'd like to see as well (at least I assume that there are others). :)