Barry, 24.05.2016 14:33 Developed in parallel with the R.VI and R.VII there were three built. Power plant 5 x 245 h.p. Maybach Mb VIa 6 cylinder in line water cooled engines. Two in each wing and one in the nose. Span 138'5" Length 75'6" Height 20'8" Wing area 3,570 square feet Empty weight 20,835 lb Gross weight 28,685 lb Maximum speed 84 mph Endurance 7 hours Crew 7 Armament 5 x 7.92 mm machine guns in dorsal, ventral, upper wing and two nacelles. Plus bombs (amount not known)

bdopkin, e-mail, 18.04.2009 20:53 It is hard to believe that in a short 12 years after the Wright Bros. flight that such advances were made.

sean Fitzgerald, e-mail, 04.09.2008 11:14 According to the book,The First war Planes, by William e Barret 1964, the R5 was brought down over Talmas on 8/10/1918 by anti aircraft fire and was completely destroyed on crash landing by one of it's bombs.

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