Hüffer HB 28

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Hüffer HB 28
Type: Sport plane
Design country:

German EmpireGerman Empire German Empire

Manufacturer:

Hopscotch

First flight:

1922

Number of pieces:

2

The Hüffer HB 28 Bajadere was a civilian German sports and training aircraft owned by Julius Hüffer .

development

The HB 28 was developed as a two-seater sport aircraft. She was a stripped high- wing aircraft in composite construction and provided with a rigid normal landing gear. The crew sat one behind the other in the open cockpit. At least two copies were built. The first aircraft was originally powered by an Anzani 60 hp engine, later received a Siemens Halske Sh 13 engine as HB 28b and was registered in June 1930 as D-1733 . In May 1932 it received a Sh-13a engine with 88 hp and went to Akaflieg in Leipzig, where it was destroyed in a crash landing in August of that year. The second aircraft was registered in May 1931 as HB 28a with the registration D-1879 as the property of the Luftfahrtvereinigung Münster. It was also equipped with a Sh 13, to but previously as driving only a Genet - then a Walter -Motor have possessed.

Technical specifications

Parameter Data (Hüffer HB 28 b)
span 10.0 m (HB 28: 8.25 m)
length 6.40 m
height 2.4 m
Wing area 14.5 m²
Empty mass 340 kg
Max. Takeoff mass 600 kg
Top speed 160–170 km / h (HB 28: 140 km / h)
Service ceiling 4050 m
Range 560 km

literature

  • Heinz J. Nowarra : The German Air Armament 1933-1945 . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1993, ISBN 3-7637-5464-4 .
  • Bruno Lange: Type manual of German aviation technology . In: German aviation . tape 9 . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1986, ISBN 3-7637-5284-6 , pp. 176 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Ries: Research on the German aviation role. Part 1: 1919-1934 . Dieter Hoffmann, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-87341-022-2 , p. 127 and 136 .
  2. ^ Lange, p. 176