Fokker V.9

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Fokker V.9 / V.12 / V.14 / V.16
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Type: Fighter plane
Design country:

German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire

Manufacturer:

Fokker

First flight:

1917

Production time:

1917/1918

Number of pieces:

4-5

The Fokker V.9 part in the First World War to a number of German trial hunting aircraft that eventually the built in small numbers hunters D.VI led. The planes were very similar, but varied in detail and in their engines.

Versions

The V.9 was commissioned on August 24, 1917 and completed in October of that year with the serial number 1831. It was powered by a 110 hp (81 kW) Oberursel Ur II rotary engine and first flew in December 1917; the following versions flew in 1918. After participating in the first comparison flight in Berlin-Adlershof in January 1918, it was put into service as the regular D.VI with the number 1630/18.

The V.12 with the serial number 1980 was powered by an experimental Steyr - Le Rhône engine with 160 hp (118 kW). It was ordered by Austria-Hungary on October 22, 1917 under the designation V.13 and handed over on January 3, 1918 without propulsion or armament. The first tests performed well, so that in June 1918 14 copies were ordered as D.VI, seven of which were delivered. In July of that year the V.12 took part in a comparison flight in Aspern . Another V.12 with the serial number 1982 was ordered on October 29th with a Ur-II engine and also delivered on January 3rd, confusingly now under the abbreviation V.13.

Like the V.12, the V.14 with the serial number 1983 was powered by a 160 hp (118 kW) Steyr-Le-Rhône. It was also originally a V.13 with a Ur III engine and was commissioned on November 2, 1917 with the Steyr drive. In 1918 she took part, now again designated as V.13 I, in the first comparison flight for D-aircraft in Adlershof.

The V.16 was powered by a 110 hp (81 kW) Oberursel Ur II and was commissioned on December 3, 1917. There was a copy with the serial number 2085 which, as interpreted the triplane V.7 similar, but had no central wing. The resulting increased surface spacing caused the flight characteristics to deteriorate, which led to the tests being discontinued.

The V.33 was a further development of the V.9 from August 1918. It was tested with Oberursel Ur II and Ur III engines with 110 hp (81 kW) and 140 hp (103 kW), respectively. After the armistice, it was transferred to the Netherlands and used there as a sport aircraft with an 80 hp Le-Rhône engine .

Technical specifications

Parameter Data (v.9) Data (V.12) Data (V.16)
crew 1
Span (top) 7.70 m 7.68 m 8.70 m
length 5.90 m 7.50 m 5.80 m
height 2.80 m 2.95 m
Wing area 16.5 m² 18.5 m² 16.8 m²
Empty mass 381 kg 340 kg
Takeoff mass 572 kg 544 kg
drive an air-cooled rotary motor with a rigid two-bladed wooden propeller
Type Oberursel Ur II Oberursel-Le Rhône
Starting power 110 hp (81 kW)
Fuel supply 45 kg 75 l
Top speed 200 km / h
Climbing time to an altitude of 1000 m 2.5 min 2 min
Ascent time to 2000 m altitude 4.7 min 4.5 min
Ascent time to 3000 m altitude 7.7 min 7.3 min 7.5 min
Ascent time to 4000 m altitude 11.0 min 11.5 min 11.7 min
Ascent time to 5000 m altitude 15.5 min 15.7 min 17.7 min
Ascent time to 6000 m altitude 21.0 min
Armament two MG

literature

  • Peter M. Grosz, Volker Koos: Fokker Flugzeugwerke in Germany 1912–1921. Heel, Königswinter 2004, ISBN 3-89880-355-4 .

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