The Etrich Taube, also known by the names of the various later manufacturers who built versions of the type, such as the Rumpler Taube, was a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft. It was the first military aeroplane to be mass-produced in Germany.
Etrich Taube
The Etrich-Wels glider prototype, with Igo Etrich in the cockpit
Design drawing of Taube from 1911
Front page of the New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial, 1 January 1917, captioned "A German Fighting Monoplane Flying Very Near the Ground Photographed from Directly Underneath."
Ignaz "Igo" Etrich was an Austrian flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer.
The Etrich Sport-Taube at the National Technical Museum (Prague).