During the first flights in 2004, the Shvetsov M-11FR radial was damaged and needed to be overhauled. Albatros Aviation Services carried out the recent engine rebuild, using many hard-to-find original parts.
Slovak Republic-based Polikarpov U-2 replica ‘White 7’ (OM-LML) took to the air again after the engine overhaul on October 11, 2007. This machine was built by Rusavia in Moscow and was gifted to the Museum of Aviation collection at Kosice by Russia in August 2004.
This machine was tested in October 1904, pulled by an automobile, but when the car reached a moderate speed the plane lifted, but a gust of wind tipped a wing so that the wheels on the opposite side were crushed. As a substitute, ordinary boards like skis were used, but then the car stalled without getting the plane off the ground, so horses had to be used. A team of draft horses pulled the rope and caused the plane to soar as high as the tree tops. Its builder Albert Rupel of Indianapolis, Indiana died of lockjaw less than a year later after stepping on a nail, before he could test it with a proper engine.
In 1910 Rumpler built monoplanes for several designers, which included the Eggers, Pegelow and Haefelin Eindeckers. All were powered by the Rumpler 50 hp Aeolus engine and all did not fly.
The Rumpler C.IV was a German single-engine, two-seat reconnaissance biplane. It was a development of C.III with different tail surfaces and using a Mercedes D.IVa engine in place of the C.III’s Benz Bz.IV. The Rumpler 6B 2 was a single-seat floatplane fighter variant with a 120 kW (160 hp) Mercedes D.III engine built for the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy).
For a two-seater reconnaissance aircraft, Rumpler C.IV had an excellent performance, which enabled it to remain in front-line service until the end of World War I on the Western Front, as well as in Italy and Palestine. Its exceptional ceiling allowed pilots to undertake reconnaissance secure in the knowledge that few allied aircraft could reach it.
300 aircraft were licence-built by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke as the Pfalz C.I, differing in ailerons on all four wings. From February 1917 they were renamed Rumpler C.IV (Pfal).
Replica
Slingsby T.58 Rumpler C.IV
Rumpler C.IV
Powerplant: 1 × Mercedes D.IVa, 190 kW (260 hp)
Propeller: 2-bladed fixed-pitch
Wingspan: 12.66 m (41 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 33.5 m2 (361 sq ft)
Length: 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in)
Height: 3.25 m (10 ft 8 in)
Empty weight: 1,080 kg (2,381 lb)
Gross weight: 1,530 kg (3,373 lb)
Maximum speed: 171 km/h (106 mph, 92 kn) at 500 m (1,640 ft)
Endurance: 3½-4 hr
Service ceiling: 6,400 m (21,000 ft)
Crew: 2 (pilot and observer)
Guns: 1 × fixed, 7.92 mm (.312 in) LMG 08/15 and 1 × 7.92 mm (.312 in) Parabellum MG14 machine gun
Bombs: 100 kg (220 lb)
Sea based training aircraft, Germany, 1911
Length : 32.808 ft / 10.0 m
Wingspan : 49.213 ft / 15.0 m
Wing area : 387.504 sq.ft / 36.0 sq.m
Max take off weight : 1808.1 lb / 820.0 kg
Weight empty : 1323.0 lb / 600.0 kg
Max. weight carried : 485.1 lb / 220.0 kg
Max. speed : 49 kts / 90 km/h
Cruising speed : 43 kts / 80 km/h
Wing load : 4.72 lb/sq.ft / 23.0 kg/sq.m
Range : 92 nm / 170 km
Engine : Argus 100 PS, 99 hp
Crew : 2
The RX1E aircraft is China’s first two-seater general aircraft developed by Liaoning Ruixiang General Aircraft Manufacture Co. Ltc. The aircraft used pure lithium batteries and permanent magnet motor to drive the propeller.
The whole machine structure made of composite material. The side-by-side two-seater aircraft belonged to the category of light sport aircraft, and debuted at the 2012 Zhuhai airshow. The cabin opens on both sides to facilitate boarding passengers.
The RX1E aircraft is equipped with mechanical flight instruments and electronic digital display power meters.
On November 1, 2017, at Fakucaihu Airport in Shenyang, the first flight of the Ruixiang Extended Range Electric Aircraft (RX1E-A) was successful. On October 19, 2018, RX1E-A aircraft has obtained the Model Design Certificate (TC) issued by China Civil Aviation Administration.
RX1E
Engine: A37K154, 30KW
Propeller: LGAA
Wingspan: 14.5m
Wing area: 12 sq.m
Length: 6.61 m
Maximum take-off weight: 500 kg
Maximum load: 162 kg
Maximum speed: 150 kph
Cruising speed: 120 kph
Ceiling: 3000 m
Endurance: 1 hr
Load factor: +4g/-2g
Seats: 2
RX1E-A
MTOW: 600 m
Maximum Landing Weight: 600 kg
Payload: 160 kg
Max Level Speed: 160km/h
Stall Speed: 82km/h
Cruising Speed: 110km/h
Load factor: +4g/-2g
Service Ceiling: 3000 m
Endurance: 90 min
Range: 180 km
Takeoff run: 330 m
Landing Run: 380 m
Designed by Swiss Emile Ruchonnet in 1911, this monoplane has a fuselage made up of long strips of citron wood which formed a monocoque shell. Ruchonnet founded a flying school at the “Aérodrome de la Vidamée” at Curteuil, north of Paris. He was killed in this machine, in January 1912, when attempting a cross-country flight.
Shortly before the outbreak of the Great War, student Jerzy Rudlicki (who later become known aircraft designer), after building several successful gliders 1912-1913 designed an aircraft named R-I. Its construction commenced with support of the Aero Club of Odessa (where Rudlicki resided at that time), which supplied Anzani engine. When the war erupted the plane was nearing completion and was therefore requisitioned by the Russian military which finalized the construction and made several (3 or 4) flights on it (before the plane crashed due to engine failure).
Span: 29’6″
Length: 29’6″
Weight: 320 lbs
A light homebuilt aircraft design
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