Junkers A 32
Junkers A 32 | |
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Type: | Multipurpose aircraft |
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First flight: |
1926 |
Production time: |
1926 |
Number of pieces: |
2 |
The Junkers A 32 was a multipurpose aircraft made by the German manufacturer Junkers in the 1920s. It was designed as a single - engine low - wing aircraft and could accommodate three people. Since no buyers were found, production ended after just two copies.
history
In the mid-1920s, Junkers began developing a new multi-purpose aircraft. It should be capable of serving as a mail, courier, or aerial survey aircraft. A closed cabin was dispensed with. Thanks to a powerful 12-cylinder engine, it was one of the faster aircraft of its time. In 1926 it was presented to the public as the A 32. Trials began in the same year.
The plane turned out to be too expensive for the small airlines for which it was designed. The only two machines built therefore remained in the manufacturer's possession and were used exclusively for test purposes.
construction
The A 32 was an all-metal aircraft designed as a low-wing aircraft with corrugated iron paneling. As before with the Junkers T 29 , the ailerons , which extended over the entire span, were designed as Junkers double wings . It offered space for a pilot and two passengers on open seats one behind the other. The rearmost seat was arranged in such a way that aerial photographs were easily possible.
A 331 kW BMW VI L-1 V-engine was originally used. It was later replaced by the newly developed Junkers L 55 . The A 32 were the first Junkers aircraft to be equipped with a V-engine .
Technical specifications
Parameter | Data |
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crew | 1 |
Passengers | 2 |
length | 11.10 m |
span | 17.82 m |
height | 3.38 m |
Wing area | 41.00 m² |
Empty mass | 1860 kg |
Payload | 865 kg |
Takeoff mass | 2725 kg |
Wing loading | 68.10 kg / kW |
Power load | 8.30 kg / m² |
Engine | a twelve-cylinder - V-engine BMW VI with 441 kW (600 hp) |
Top speed | 220 km / h |
Cruising speed | 185 km / h |
Summit height | 6000 m |
See also
literature
Günter Schmitt: Junkers and his planes . 2nd unchanged edition. Transpress, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-344-00192-2 , p. 112 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schmitt, Junkers, pp. 182/183