Fuselage of the Mannesmann Giant Triplane being transported

Mannesmann Giant Triplane

Mannesmann Giant Triplane

Designed and constructed during the final months of the First World War, the Mannesmann Giant Triplane was still under construction at the time of the armistice. Although designed as a transport, the Inter-Allied Aeronautical Control Commission believed that it was a bomber designed to reach New York.

The finished aircraft would have had a length of 46m and a wing span of 50m.