HANSA UND BRANDENBURGISCHE FLEGZEUGWERKE GMBH

GERMANY

With Ernst Heinkel as chief designer, this company produced the most important German W.29 seaplanes of the First World War, commencing with the KDW single-seater developed from the D1 landplane, followed by the W.12 with characteristic Hansa upswept fuselage and "upside-down" tail arrangement. The W.29 monoplane W.33 set the pattern for Heinkel's later designs, outperforming Allied aircraft in combat from introduction in April 1918. The larger W.33 was delivered before the Armistice, and continued in production in Finland and Norway as the A-22 until the mid- 19208, as did the W.29 in Denmark. Back to the letter H

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