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. |