ZEPPELIN-STAAKEN R-XVII

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I translated this stuff, it doesn't verify that there were two built. Did you post this to state where the information came from? You'll have to forgive me but as you can tell, I am a skeptic. So, when will the book be published?
 
I translated this stuff, it doesn't verify that there were two built. Did you post this to state where the information came from? You'll have to forgive me but as you can tell, I am a skeptic. So, when will the book be published?
The book is out, I read the Allied Inspection report of the Zeppelin Staaken which was in French. Looking at the first one which flew, it had a an open cockpit and by the looks of it a different fuselage. The second one has an enclosed cockpit different windows and different interior from the first one and never flew. Of course it could be the same aircraft heavily modified but the inspectors did not say that. The aircraft appears in Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau GmbH/ Adolf Rohrbach metal airplanes ISBN:9781838056 as well as German Aircraft in the Great War. Aside from everything the aircraft was a triumph and has been described as the supreme German aero-product of the Great War!
 

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