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| | Rumpler Taube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The Rumpler Taube is a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft, and the first mass produced military plane in Germany. |
 | | Being the Germans' first practical military plane, it was used for all common military aircraft applications, including as a fighter, bomber, surveillance plane and trainer from its first flight in 1910 until the beginning of World War I. Due to the rapid advancement of aviation during the war, the design was obsolete by 1914. |
 | | Subsequently the plane was a very easy target for the faster and more mobile enemy planes at the beginning of World War I. Therefore, 6 months into the war, the Taube was removed from the front lines and instead used to train new pilots. |
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