{{Short description|1920s German floatplane trainer}} <!-- This article is a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout. --> {{Infobox aircraft | name = V 60 | logo = | logo_size = | image = LFG V 60.jpg | alt = | caption = | long_caption = | other_names = | aircraft_type = Floatplane training aircraft | aim = | outcome = | related = | national_origin = Germany | manufacturer = LFG (Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft) | design_group = | designer = | builder = | issuer = | status = | owners = | primary_user = | more_users = | service = | major_applications = | proposals = | prototypes = | number_built = 4 or 5 | construction_number = | civil_registration = | military_serial = | radio_code = | requirement = | aircraft_carried = | flights = | total_hours = | total_distance = | construction_date = | introduction = | retired = | first_flight = 1926 | initiated = | in_service = | last_flight = | expected = | developed_from = | variants = | developed_into = | preservation = | fate = | predecessors = | successors = | concluded = }}
The '''LFG V 60''' was a small, single engine, tandem seat floatplane training aircraft, designed and built in Germany in the mid-1920s. About five were constructed.
==Design and development==
The LFG V 60 was a biplane floatplane, with wings of constant chord and with rounded wing tips; they were of approximately equal span and mounted with little stagger. It was a two bay biplane with pairs of parallel interplane struts, though the inner bay was quite narrow. There were ailerons on both upper and lower planes, externally connected.<ref name=Flight1/><ref name=HistAv/>
Its engine was a {{convert|230|hp|kW|abbr=on|0|disp=flip}} six cylinder inline, water cooled BMW IV, mounted with its cylinder heads exposed, which drove a two blade propeller. The fuselage was flat sided and accommodated the two crew in a continuous open, tandem cockpit. The tailplane was mounted on top of the fuselage and the vertical tail was tall and rounded, the rudder extending below the keel. The V 60 had twin float landing gear attached to the wing and lower fuselage on a number of V-struts and laterally cross braced.<ref name=Flight1/><ref name=HistAv/>
==Operational history== One V 60 was entered into the German Seaplane Competition held in July 1926 on the Baltic coast. During one flight the pilot, Haase, put down on the sea to make some adjustment but was swept away. The aircraft and its passenger were rescued.<ref name=Flight2/>
Two other V 60s were registered to DVS GmbH early in 1928.<ref name=HistAv/>
==Operators== * DVS GmbH
==Specifications== {{Aircraft specs |ref=''Flight 22 July 1926, p.449'' <ref name=Flight1/> and Flight 29 July 1926, p.465<ref name=Flight2/> |prime units?=met <!-- General characteristics --> |genhide=
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<!-- ==See also== --> {{aircontent <!-- include as many lines are appropriate. additional lines/entries with carriage return. --> |see also= |related=<!-- related developments --> |similar aircraft=<!-- similar or comparable aircraft --> |lists=<!-- related lists --> }} ==References== {{Commons category}}<references>
<ref name=Flight1>{{cite magazine|date=22 July 1926 |title=The German seaplane Championship|magazine=Flight|volume=XVIII|issue=29|pages=448–451|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1926/1926%20-%200510.html}}</ref>
<ref name=Flight2>{{cite magazine|date=29 July 1926 |title=The German seaplane Championship|magazine=Flight|volume=XVIII|issue=30|page=465|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1926/1926%20-%200535.html}}</ref>
<ref name=HistAv>{{cite web |url=http://histaviation.com/LFG_V_60.html|title=LFG V 60 |author= |publisher= |accessdate=27 July 2013}}</ref>
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