Type Two seat sportplane
Engine 1  Armstrong Genet 1
1 Armstrong Genet Major
Dimensions Length 6,14 m, height 2,62 m, span  7,20 m, wing area 12,1 m2, aspect ratio 4,3
Weights Empty 320 kg, fuel 70 kg, load 330 kg, loaded 650 kg, wing loading 53,7 kg/m2 Empty 374 kg, fuel 70 kg, load 276 kg, loaded 650 kg, wing loading 53,7 kg/m2
Performance Max. speed 200 km/h, climb to 1000 m 3,0 min., service ceiling 5800 m, range 800 km Max. speed 196 km/h
Type Werk.Nr Registration History
D-1561 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.