The Zeppelin D.I, or Zeppelin-Lindau D.I or Zeppelin D.I (Do), as named in German documents, also sometimes referred to postwar as the Dornier D.I or Dornier-Zeppelin D.I, for the designer, was a single-seat all-metal stressed skin monocoque cantilever-wing biplane fighter, developed by Claude Dornier while working for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin at their Lindau facility. It was too late to see operational service with the German Air Force (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I.
Zeppelin-Lindau D.I
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) D.I on trestle
Monocoque, also called structural skin, is a structural system in which loads are supported by an object's external skin, in a manner similar to an egg shell. The word monocoque is a French term for "single shell".
Deperdussin Monocoque, with wooden shell construction
LFG Roland C.II with wooden Wickelrumpf monocoque fuselage
Zeppelin D.I, the first production all-metal monocoque aircraft
1981 McLaren MP4/1, with a carbon fiber composite monocoque