LVG EVI
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Anyone know anything about this aeroplane ?
The prototype, E600/15, was supposedly fitted with a Schneider designed machine gun interrupter gear and was lost on 17.12.1914 on a delivery flight.
Its loss is attributed to Sgt Eugene Gilbert and Soldat Mechanic Bayle, MS23, who claimed an EA destroyed between Albert & Bapaume.
It is possible that the observer in the LVG was Leutnant Hans von Bojanowski, who died of his wounds on 1.1.1915.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVG_E.I
Note that the image has a rearward firing Maxim gun & a forward firing Maxim gun (on a flexible mount), with no evidence as to how this would be synchronized with the prop.
If there was another forward firing gun, it isn’t visible.
LVG (Schneider) did develop a system which fired a machine gun through the hollow shaft of the prop, but all that I have found on this suggests that it was abandoned due to lubrication problems with the specially design Mercedes engine.
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