AEG G.IV

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G.IV 574/18, the only surviving German twin-engined aircraft of the First World War, shipped to Canada as a war trophy in 1919 and displayed at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa: a three-seat biplane bomber with a slab-sided fuselage, an open gunner’s cockpit in the nose and another behind the wings, two Mercedes D.IVa six-cylinder engines with car-type radiators and two-bladed propellers between the wings, equal-chord upper and lower wings with overhanging balanced ailerons, a tall fin and rudder, twin-wheel main undercarriages and a tail skid: printed five-colour night lozenge fabric on the wings, tail and rear fuselage, a charcoal plywood nose, a large white ‘IV’ and black crosses with thin white outlines on the fuselage sides and under the wings, black struts and varnished propellers, as photographed in Ottawa (no AEG G.IV is preserved in a UK museum; shape from an airwar.ru three-view; engines shown fitted as in the 2011–12 photographs; the lozenge layout is an approximation and the crosses on the upper wing, which no photograph shows, follow the drawing). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 305 models · download .glb (1.0 MB) · Plate 27 in The Hangar