AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ERA

Mickl (Albatros) Type S Flying Boat


The Mickl Type S has its origins in a small flying boat designed by Dipl.Ing Josef Mickl of the Austro-Hungarian Navy Workshop at Pola in September 1914. Given the serial A.12, this was a compact design powered by a 80-hp Gnome rotary. An order for 12 machines, later reduced to five, was placed with Albatros. These had a redesigned cockpit as well as tail and wing cellule. The original A.12 had a cockpit akin to that seen on the early Lohner M with a large glazed coaming around the cockpit opening and a solid fin attached to the hull.

Rebuilt, A.12 was given the new serial gS1, the small g indicating Gnome. The next three were sS2, sS3 and sS4, the small s indicated that they were powered by the 80hp Stahlherz seven cylinder rotary. S5 was powered by a 80hp Gnome, while S6 was given an 85hp Monosoupape. The small engine prefix letters were later dropped from sS2-4.

S1 entered service on 6 July, S6 on 24 April 1916. S1 survived until 24 June 1918 when it was written off.


 


Mickl Type S sS-3
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Source: Windsock 23/1