AEG Wagner Owl
| AEG E 2 | |
|---|---|
.jpg) AEG E 2 unrestored in the Polish Aviation Museum Krakow |
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| Type: | Reconnaissance plane |
| Design country: | |
| Manufacturer: |
General Electricity Society Berlin |
| First flight: |
1914 |
| Commissioning: |
- |
| Number of pieces: |
2 |
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The AEG Wagner Owl (factory name AEG E 2) was a single-engine, two-seat German reconnaissance aircraft that was built in 1911/1912 by the aircraft construction department of AEG, which was founded in 1910, according to plans by the engineer Wagner. According to the known documents, there were only two copies. The first machine burned, while the second made few flights in 1914. The monoplane development was then canceled. After the flight tests were completed, the aircraft was hung up as an exhibition piece in the production hall of the AEG's flight technology department in Hennigsdorf near Berlin and later given to the German Aviation Collection in Berlin . During the Second World War , the aircraft, along with others , were brought to Czarnków in German-occupied Poland to protect against bombing . It was found there after the end of the war and stored in the Technical Museum from 1946 to 1963 until it entered the collection of the newly established Polish Aviation Museum . It has been exhibited there since a restoration in 2003.
According to the inscription on the fuselage side from the time of the exhibition in the Berlin Aviation Collection, the Wagner Owl is said to have been the first AEG aircraft in 1911/1912. This must be doubted, since at this time the models Z 1 and Z 2 were already built.
The drive consisted of a 7-cylinder Gnome-et-Rhone - rotary engine . The fuselage was made of welded steel tube and, like the wooden wings, covered with fabric. Technical data are not known from verifiable documents.
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Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
|---|---|
| crew | 2 |
| Hull length | 4.77 m |
| span | 11.00 m |
| height | |
| Wing area | 11.6 m² |
| Wing extension | 10.4 |
| Engines | a seven-cylinder rotary engine Gnome et Rhône |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bruno Lange: Type Handbook of German Aviation Technology (Die deutsche Luftfahrt Volume 9), Bernard & Graefe Verlag Koblenz, 1986, p. 45
- ↑ AEG E2 "Owl". In: lostart.de. Stiftung Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, 2001, accessed on September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ AEG Wagner Owl. In: muzeumlotnictwa.pl. Polish Aviation Museum, accessed September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Photo AEG Wagner Eule, unrestored condition
- ↑ Photo by Sergey Eyelet ( Memento from April 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
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