Arado Ar 199
Arado Ar 199 | |
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Type: | Sea trainer, sea rescue |
Design country: | |
Manufacturer: |
Arado |
First flight: |
1939 |
Number of pieces: |
31 |
The Arado Ar 199 was a German lake - education and training aircraft of the Arado aircraft plants from the 1930s.
history
In 1938 the Technical Office requested a modern naval trainer aircraft. The Arado Ar 199 was then the draft of a trainer aircraft for the flying training of complete seaplane crews. For the pilot training, two seats next to each other were provided for teachers and students, while a radio student with all radio equipment could be seated behind them.
31 Arado 199 were built, 5 V-models and 26 series machines.
- V1, WNr. 3671, D-IFRB, then NH + AM (NH + AN?), E -stelle Travemünde 1940, then Kemi / Finland 1943.
- V2, WNr. 3672, D-ISBC, then BH + BM (?), Crash E -stelle Travemünde 1940.
- V3, WNr. 3673, D-ITLF, then TJ + HL, then Maritime Emergency Command IX, while attempting to rescue a Bf-110 crew from the bank of Lake Wesnj, lost to shelling by MiG-3 on August 14, 1942, recovered in 1993/1994 from Lake Wernj / Finland, then to the USA, then to Canada. There are still the middle and stern of the fuselage, engine, parts of the wings and floats
- V4, WNr. 3674, prototype aircraft pilot series, E -stelle Travemünde 1940, then in Bergen
- V5, WNr. 3676, RC + HR, test aircraft for modified landing flaps, to the E-point Travemünde on January 27, 1941, last documented there in November 1941.
Originally, 65 machines were required according to delivery plan no. 10 of January 1, 1939. The preliminary series consisted of 26 machines (WNr. 001-026), the last 4 of which were built in France. They were mainly used in sea rescue . The series was discontinued because the need for combat aircraft was more of a priority. Examples for series machines:
- A-0, WNr. 0007, Sea Rescue Finland May 1940.
- A-0, WNr. 0011, to Pori / Finland in May 1943.
- A-0, WNr. 0017, damaged during an emergency landing in Chartres / France on May 28, 1943, to Travemünde
- A-0, WNr. 0020, sea rescue at SNK IX
- A-0, WNr. 0026, in October 1943 at Sea Emergency Squadron 10 Stavanger
- A-0, KK + BT, October 1942 E -stelle Travemünde, May 1944 Seefliegerschule Bug on Rügen
- A-0, BH + AN, April 1940 in Norway
- A-0, DM + ZE, May 15, 1943 Emergency landing in Tournai
- A-0, KK + BX, Jan. 1944 in Tromsø
- A-0, BH + AM, summer 1943 in Kemi / Finland
Some Arado Ar 199 were used by the distress squadron 10 of the distress area command IX in Tromsø / Kirkenes in Norway.
construction
The low-wing aircraft design of the plane was similar to the Ar 196 , but it was developed on the basis of the Arado Ar 79 and Arado Ar 96 , albeit in an all-metal construction , with the basic structure of the front fuselage section consisting of a welded and metal-clad tubular frame. Force-absorbing half-shells formed the rear part . The single-spar wings were also covered with light metal, while the movable control surfaces were covered with fabric. The appropriate fittings were available for catapult exercises.
The Ar 199 had two all-metal floats with a strongly keeled bow that ended in a shallow step . Behind it was a keel equipped with water oars. To achieve good-natured flight characteristics, the Ar 199 had rigid slats and large-area rudders. The first four V-models had a VDM adjustment propeller, the last and the series, however, had an Argus adjustment propeller.
The Ar 199 was powered by a V-engine Argus As 410 with 450 hp.
Technical specifications
Parameter | Data |
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crew | 2-3 |
length | 10.57 m |
span | 12.70 m |
height | 4.36 m |
Wing area | 30.40 m² |
Wing extension | 5.30 |
Wing loading | 67.85 kg / m² |
Area performance | 12.50 hp / m² |
Power load | 5.41 kg / hp |
Empty mass | 1676 kg |
Max. Takeoff mass | 2060 kg |
Top speed | 227 km / h near the ground, 260 km / h at an altitude of 3000 m |
Marching speed | 212 km / h |
Landing speed | 80 km / h |
Rise time | 11 min at 3000 m altitude |
Service ceiling | 6500 m |
Range | 740 km |
Engine | 1 × Argus As 410 C, 450 PS (331 kW) |
Preserved copies
The V3 was recovered from Lake Wernj / Finland in 1993/1994, then brought to the USA, then to Canada. There are still the middle and stern of the fuselage, engine, parts of the wings and floats. They are in poor condition but can still be restored.
See also
literature
- William Green: War Planes of the Second World War. Vol. 6: Floatplanes. MacDonald, London 1968, pp. 58 f.
- Jörg Armin Kranzhoff: Arado - history of an aircraft factory. Aviatic Verlag, Oberhaching 1995, ISBN 3-925505-27-X .
- Jörg Armin Kranzhoff: Arado 96 variants. In: Airplane Profiles. No. 43, UNITEC Medienvertrieb Stengelheim.
Web links
- Ar 199 in Luftarchiv.de
- Civil Aircraft Register - Germany ( Memento from March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aircraft Profile No. 43, p. 45