An important early aircraft was the Taube (Dove) designed by Igo Etrich, an Austrian. It was built in many variations by a dozen German companies, Jeannin Fllugzeugbau from Berlin - Johannisthal producing the Stahltaube with a a steel tube fuselage frame. Unmanoeuvrable, the Taube proved vulnerable as a warplane.

This type, the Taube, first flew in 1910. This original example is seen in the Technical Museum at Berlin. It is actually A118/13