Type
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Two seat sportplane
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Engine
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1 Armstrong Genet 1
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1 Armstrong Genet Major
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Dimensions
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Length 6,14 m, height 2,62 m, span 7,20 m, wing area 12,1 m2, aspect ratio 4,3
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Weights
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Empty 320 kg, fuel 70 kg, load 330 kg, loaded 650 kg, wing loading 53,7
kg/m2
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Empty 374 kg, fuel 70 kg, load 276 kg, loaded 650 kg, wing loading 53,7
kg/m2
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Performance
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Max. speed 200 km/h, climb to 1000 m 3,0 min., service ceiling 5800 m, range
800 km
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Max. speed 196 km/h
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Type
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Werk.Nr
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Registration
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History
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D-1561
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Designed in 1929 by Dipl.Ing. F. Fecher with a wing profile designed by Joukovski. First flights were very promising.
Transferred to Berlin for acceptance test by DVL (Pilots Nehring and Voight). Took part in the Europa-Rundflug
1929. The aircraft was flown 324.2 km with a fuel consumption of 27.95 kg with an average speed of 156.7 km/h.
had to withdraw because of a crash. (Morzik won this competition with the Messerschmitt M-23). The aircraft was
repaired, now with an Armstrong Genet Major engine. Now it set 3 world records : On the 21 of April 1930 Voight
and Daulé reached 7521 m, on the 23 of April Rudolf Neininger and K. Stark flew from Darmstadt to Wiesbaden
with a speed of 214,848 km/h, on the 23 of May 1930 Voight reached 8142 m. For the Europa-Rundflug 1930 it was
equipped with an enclosed cockpit , encreased the weight to 374.3 kg. Engine problems forced Neininger to ditch
in the Mediterranean, it was salvaged but was scrapped.
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