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The SSW D.III was an excellent late war German fighter, much admired then and now, but there were too few of them, too late, to make an impact. This particular aircraft belonged to Germany's second most successful fighter ace, Ernst Udet . Siemens was an electrical engineering company which underwent a long series of mergers and acquisitions. As Siemens Schuckert Werke it produced a series of giant bombers in WWI, but realising their financial vulnerability to such costly units, branched out into fighter aircraft when the Air Force demanded a competitor for the successful French Nieuport scouts. The SSW D.I was a close copy of the Nieuport 17, verging on the obsolete when it finally appeared, but powered by an innovative rotary engine designed by Siemens Halske, another of their companies. Further development led to the Siemens Sh.III engine , one of the most advanced engines of the war. The notable element of their design was that unusually the cylinders rotated in one directio