Talk:Friedrichshafen FF.1

Friedrichshafen FF.1 has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: March 29, 2023. (Reviewed version).

Aviation: Aircraft

	Aviation portal This article is within the scope of the Aviation WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.AviationWikipedia:WikiProject AviationTemplate:WikiProject Aviationaviation articles
	This article is supported by the aircraft project.

Germany Low‑importance

	Germany portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GermanyWikipedia:WikiProject GermanyTemplate:WikiProject GermanyGermany articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A fact from Friedrichshafen FF.1 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that there was only one Friedrichshafen FF.1 aircraft and it was destroyed in a crash?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Friedrichshafen FF.1.

Wikipedia

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 01:43, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that Friedrichshafen FF.1, the first plane designed by aviation company Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen, set a German national flight endurance record? Source: Borzutzki, p. 24 , Herris, p. 12 , Borzutzki, pp. 25, 82
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Plata

Improved to Good Article status by Sturmvogel 66 (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 23:44, 1 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Friedrichshafen FF.1; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Relatively small article, but meets length criteria and meeting of GA criteria implicates DYK pass. Article was nominated within seven days of passing GAR. This is probably the only possible hook about this subject – not sure what else you can say about a plane that only had one prototype built that crashed – but I do think it's interesting enough for the main page. AGF on offline source used for hook. QPQ has been completed. Morgan695 (talk) 02:44, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Onegreatjoke: I think the credits are wrong, so I will try to correct. Bruxton (talk) 19:07, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This museum website calls it a world record. "On February 24, 1913, the FF 1, flown by Swiss pilot Robert Gsell, set a world record for flight duration with a flight of 2 hours and 32.5 minutes. In 1914, the FF 1 was destroyed in a landing accident. Only the one prototype was built." Bruxton (talk) 19:21, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Onegreatjoke: Seems like there is another ALT in there.

ALT1: ... that there was only one Friedrichshafen FF.1 aircraft and it was destroyed in a crash?

Bruxton (talk) 19:52, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Onegreatjoke, Morgan695, and Sturmvogel 66: Wanted to see if any of you like the hook I proposed ALT1. Bruxton (talk) 13:59, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I guess it's fine. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:26, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Morgan695: can I ask you to look at ALT1 and see if you can approve it? Bruxton (talk) 18:22, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bruxton: Looks fine to me. Morgan695 (talk) 20:18, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cielquiparle: I did proposed a hook and it has approval, so please review for possible promotion. Whichever hook you like. Bruxton (talk) 22:46, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]