WOW520-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale item we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in like new condition.
Thomas Gunn Miniatures WOW520 DFW C.V. Black 7 Wooden Warbird Airplane
These wooden warbirds are all limited edition, but no certificate included. Only 2 produced of this model!
1/30th scale: Wingspan: 17.5" Nose to Tail: 12.5"
The Deutsche Flugzeug Werke company were responsible for manufacturing one of the most important 2 seat aircraft of its time the DFW C.V, a highly maneuverable and versatile aircraft with approximately 3200 manufactured during the course of the war.
Utilized as an artillery spotter, it was also used in the ground
attack role when fitted with bombs, as a fighter and also as a training
aircraft.
The DFW’s were conventionally configured biplanes with unequal-span
unstaggered wings and seating for the pilot and observer in tandem, open
cockpits. These aircraft seated the gunner to the rear and armed him
with a machine gun on a ring mount.
The Benz BZ.1V straight six engine was fitted with a long, vertical,
chimney-like exhaust pipe (LVG-produced planes had horizontal exhaust
pipe) and was covered with an aerodynamic cover, but these were often
left off. The engine drove a two-blade wooden propeller 2.8 metres
(9.2 ft) in diameter. Engine cooling was initially provided by radiators
on each side of the fuselage, later aircraft used a radiator at the
front of the upper wing.
The C.V’s main designer was Heinrich Oelerich, and it was produced in
larger numbers than any other German aircraft during World War I.
Around 2000 were manufactured by DFW and another 1,250 license
manufactured by Aviatik.
In the hands of a skilled pilot it could outmaneuver most allied
fighters of the period. It remained in service until early 1918 though
600 were still in use by the Armistice of 11 November 1918. Most were
thereafter scrapped according to the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.