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The '''DFW R.III''' was a German bomber aircraft designed during World War I, but which had not yet been built when the end of the war led to the project's cancellation. Conceptually similar to [[Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke|DFW]]'s preceding [[DFW R.I|R.I]] and [[DFW R.II|R.II]] designs, the R.III was to have been a much larger aircraft, powered by eight engines. As with the previous designs, these were to be housed inside the fuselage, driving propellers by long driveshafts. In the R.III design, however, these propellers were to be mounted on a nacelle in the interplane gap. Each end of this nacelle would carry two co-axial propellers, each driven by a separate engine. Had it been built, the R.III would have been the largest aircraft in the world at the time.

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==Specifications (as designed)==
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|prime units? = met
|length m=25.00
|length ft=82
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|span m=53.50
|span ft=175
|span in=6
|height m=8.78
|height ft=28
|height in=10
|eng1 number=8
|eng1 name=[[Mercedes D.IVa]]
|eng1 kw=<!-- prop engines -->194
|eng1 hp=<!-- prop engines -->260
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|armament = *8 × machine guns
*2,500 kg (5,500 lb) of bombs
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==References==
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* ''The German Giants, The Story of the R-planes 1914-1919'', G.W. Haddow & Peter M. Grosz, Putnam & Company Limited, 42 Great Russell Street, London,  First Published July 1962
*{{cite book |last1=Herris |first1=Jack |title=DFW Aircraft of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes |date=2017 |isbn=978-1-935881-54-4 |publisher=Aeronaut Books |location=n.p. |series=Great War Aviation Centennial Series|volume=29}}

==External links==
* "[http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1919/1919%20-%201272.html The German D.F.W. Commercial Four-Engined Biplane]" ''Flight'' 25 September 1919, vol. XI, no. 39, pp.&nbsp;1274–78. The R.III is described and illustrated on [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%201274.html pp. 1276–77].

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