M.IV Boemches

The kuk . M.IV Boemches was a blimp with three foreclosed lifting gas chambers , each with a ballonett . Its first journey took place on April 16, 1912 in Fischamend . The airship, also known as the “System Boemches”, was manufactured according to a design by Friedrich Boemches. The captain belonging to the pioneer battalion had commissioned the M.IV after he presented a prototype at the 1910 hunting exhibition in the rotunda of the Vienna Prater . The M.IV Boemches was to be stationed in the Stagl-Mannsbarth-Luftschiffhalle of the Fischamend Military Aëronautical Institute . Captain Boemches donated the airship, which had room for six crew members, to the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry.

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
Manufacturer	Consortium of Austrian companies
length	57.5 m
diameter	9 m
Lifting gas content	2750 m³
Maximum speed	42 km / h
Cruising speed	40 km / h
Summit height	1200 m
Range	400 km
Motorization	2 Körting to 36 HP (26 kW) with two double-bladed propellers with a diameter of 3.4 m

Trivia

The M.IV Boemches was the fourth and last airship owned by the kuk airship department. The donated airship could not integrate this into its reduced tasks. In 1911, the decision was made to give priority to aircraft development. His balloon envelope found in a free balloon "Fischamend" reuse. It burned completely after the balloon gas ignited on one of its first ascents.

literature

The Austro-Hungarian Military Aeronautical Institution, Fischamend Volume 1 - The Great Age of the Austro-Hungarian Airships 1908 to 1914 of the ILF , Rudolf Ster, Reinhard Ringl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aviation interest group Fischamend. Retrieved February 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Rudolf Ster, Reinhard Ringl: The Austro-Hungarian Military Aeronautical Institution Fischamend . Ed .: ILF. tape 1 . carinaverlag, Hetzendorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-9503429-8-7 , p. 200 .
3. ^ Aviation in Austria . In: Wikipedia . November 30, 2019 ( Special: Permanent Link / 194521022 [accessed February 7, 2020]).