The aircraft’s many unique features convinced German leaders that the Gotha was a plane capable of winning the war. The 34-year-old Brandenburg took off with 23 bombers from grass fields near Ghent and headed for the Nieuwunster Airfield 40 miles away to refuel.

Germany based an entire fleet of Gotha heavy bombers at airfields in occupied Belgium for strikes against Great Britain. Aided by mild weather, the September 1917 raids grew in intensity. There were no fewer than six raids across a period of eight days, with five of them hitting the capital city.

2017年8月17日 · A hundred years ago this summer, German aircraft opened a shocking aerial campaign against London. Whereas the much-feared Zeppelins had appeared furtively under the cloak of darkness, the Gotha bombers appeared brazenly in broad daylight.

2018年10月2日 · But the English would soon face a much more dangerous threat: the Gotha G IV. The roots of the German program to develop a heavy bomber aircraft go back to autumn 1914, when Major Wilhelm Siegert, a former balloon pi­lot, proposed a strategic bombardment of London using airplanes.

With a range of 800 km (500 miles) and a bomb load of up to 500 kg (1,100 lb), the Gothas were designed to carry out attacks across the channel against Britain. A group of four squadrons was established in Belgium, and they carried out their first bombing raid towards the end of May, 1917.

role : medium-weight bomber. first flight : operational : August 1917. country : Germany . design : production : 205 aircraft. general information : Operational use of the G.IV demonstrated that the incorporation of the fuel tanks into the engine nacelles was a mistake. In a crash landing the tanks could rupture and spill fuel onto the hot engines.

Gotha Bombers The German Gotha V bomber was the German Army Air Service’s equivalent of the Royal Flying Corps’ Handley Page O/400 bomber. The Gotha V first entered service in August 1917 and was designed to be a heavy bomber that was able to cover more distance than the average fighter plane while having the ability to deliver a bomb load ...

2019年7月31日 · However, a true long-range, heavy-class solution was still to come - and finally made available - by the arrival of the Gotha bomber series, the classic German heavy bomber of World War 1. The Gotha aircraft was a two-engined, biplane design forged of a steel skeleton, wood framing and fabric skin.

The Gotha G.IV was a three-seat, twin-engine biplane capable of carrying over 300 kg of bombs which first appeared over London in broad daylight on 13 June 1917. The skies over the capital were clear that day as over a dozen Gothas crossed the River Thames unleashing their deadly cargo on an unsuspecting populace.

On 13 June 1917, German Gotha aircraft carried out an air raid on London – the first attack on London by a squadron of aircraft. Fourteen reached London, whilst three bombed Margate and Shoeburyness.