page_title: Zeppelin-Lindau Gs.I
section_title: Zeppelin-Lindau Gs.II
hierarchical_section_title: Zeppelin-Lindau Gs.I / Zeppelin-Lindau Gs.II
caption_attribution_description: English: The cabin of the Dornier Gs.II facing aft.
context_page_description: The Zeppelin-Lindau Gs.I, often known post-WWI as the Dornier Gs.I after its designer Claude Dornier, was a civil flying boat developed immediate post-war from a military prototype. Its passenger cabin seated six. Only one was completed, and that was eventually scuttled to keep it out of Allied hands. Another of the military prototypes was intended to have a bigger, nine seat cabin and other refinements but the Gs.II was incomplete when discovered by Allied inspectors.
context_section_description: The Gs.II was a planned larger and more refined version of the Gs.I, using the two remaining military Gs.I airframes. The layout and engines remained the same but wing area was increased by 22% by a 7% increase in span and 6% decrease in aspect ratio. The new wing was metal-skinned, with readily removed panels for internal inspection, though fabric-covering was an option, yielding an extra 200 kg (440 lb) of payload.
  The other major changes were to the passenger and crew accommodation and to the tail. The bulbous cabin of the Gs.I was removed and a new, longer cabin built under the original deckline, stretching back to the plane of the forward propeller. It could hold eight, or nine "at a pinch". To the rear of the cabin there was a luggage hold and, behind that, the fuel tanks. The pilot and mechanic also sat to the rear of the cabin, raised to deck level and behind the propeller, in an open, side-by-side seat cockpit.
  The Gs.I's biplane, twin-finned tail was replaced by a more conventional, cruciform unit with angular surfaces. A small fin with a cropped triangular profile carried a balanced rudder and also mounted a rectangular plan tailplane, double strut-mounted just above the fuselage. This carried rectangular, narrow chord elevators.
  The partial construction of at least one Gs.II is known from photographs to have started and its new forward fuselage mostly built but it was probably destroyed by the Allies in 1919 before completion.
caption: Dornier Gs.II cabin
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