Dietrich DP.II
Introduction __NOTOC__The '''Dietrich DP.II Bussard''' was a 1920s German two-seat training biplane designed by Richard Dietrich and built by the Dietrich-Gobiet Flugzeugwerke as Kassel.
Development The DP.II was a development of the earlier DP.I with the change to be a cantilever unequal-span biplane. The DP.II was built with wooden wings and a steel-frame fabric covered fuselage and tailplane. The aircraft had a fixed tailskid landing gear and was powered by a Siemens-Halske radial engine. Following the single Siemens-Halske Sh 4 powered prototype was a production run of 58 improved DP.IIa variants powered by Siemens-Halske Sh 5 radial engines.
Variants DP.IIa in 1925;DP.II:Prototype with a Siemens-Halske Sh 4 radial engine, one built. ;DP.IIa:Production variant with a Siemens-Halske Sh 5 radial engine, 53 built.
Specifications (DP.IIa)
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