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This company, located formerly at Gotha, built the largest
aircraft to see service in the First World
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War, the Riesenflugzeug
(giant aeroplane) "R" series bombers. The Staaken
design team evolved four-, five- and six-engined bombers,
leading to the four-engined R.VI which was built by Automobil
and Aviatik, Ostdeutsche Albatros Werke and
Luftfahrzeugbau Schütte-Lanz and carried out successful
raids
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against Allied territory, dropping bombs as
large as 1,000kg. A floatplane version of the
R.VI, the Staaken L, was wrecked during trials in 1918. An advanced four-engined all-metal monoplane airliner,
the E.4/20, flew successfully in 1920 but was then
destroyed by order of the Allied Control Commission under
the terms of the Armistice.
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