Stagl-Mannsbarth
The Stagl man Barth was a private semi-rigid blimp with four foreclosed lifting gas chambers and one each ballonett . His first voyage took place on March 9, 1911 in Fischamend . The then largest impact airship in the world came from engineer Hans Otto Stagl and Lieutenant Franz Mannsbarth . The Stagl-Mannsbarth was located in the Stagl-Mannsbarth airship hangar built for him in the Fischamend military aeronautical institute . It offered space for thirty passengers and crew.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Austrian motor aircraft company |
| Balloon envelope | Austrian-American rubber goods factory |
| Engine and engine pod | Daimler works Wiener Neustadt |
| Hemp rigging and rope work | Pelzl and son |
| Wire rope rigging | Felten & Guilleaume |
| Distribution boxes, valves | Malowich & Compagnon |
| Wood screws | Chauviere & Dzewicky Paris |
| Instruments | Kleemann |
| length | 91 m |
| diameter | 12.7 m |
| Lifting gas content | 8100 m³ |
| Maximum speed | 60 km / h |
| Cruising speed | 60 km / h |
| Summit height | 2700 m |
| Range | 450 km |
| Motorization | 2 Austro-Daimler with 150 PS (110 kW) connected to a 34 m long catwalk , four two-bladed propellers with a diameter of 4 m, two adjustable propellers with a diameter of 2.2 m |
Airship auxiliaries
Since the Stagl-Mannsbarth, unlike the other airships stationed in Fischamend, was not a military one, a private auxiliary force had to be set up to bring it out of the hangar and onto the airfield. This was constituted as an association by Franz Merzendorfer on March 8, 1911 at the founding event in the Fischamender inn "Zum Weißen Schwan". Since airship travel had already generated great interest in the town, the founding meeting was very well attended. Under chairman Otto Schütz, son of Mayor August Schütz, a separate horn signal was set. It had to be clearly different from the alerting of the fire brigade and should inform the up to fifty helpers needed about exits and landings of the airship.
Passenger rides
A feeder service with the Stagl-Mannsbarth was planned for the “Austrian Flight Week 1911” taking place in Wiener Neustadt . This world novelty represented the first regular and scheduled passenger traffic with airships. Originally planned from the Vienna Central Cemetery , Fischamend was chosen as the starting point because the necessary facilities were already available here.
Stagl family
The construction of the airship was pre-financed by Hermine Stagl, mother of the engineer Hans Otto Stagl. She was the owner of a property in Vienna and a balloon construction company. It also paved the way for the construction of the necessary airship hangar, including permits, in Fischamend. Rapid developments in the military awaited them here.
As a business model, she viewed the profitable sale of airship and airship hangar to the military.
The Austro-Hungarian War Ministry decided in 1911 to allocate budget funds to the development of aircraft. The non-sale let the family slide into private bankruptcy.
Decline
Although the Stagl-Mannsbarth was the most technically mature airship system in the Danube Monarchy, attempts to rescue it were unsuccessful. A sale to the newly founded “Erste Österreichische Luftverkehrs mbH” could not be completed either. The expensive balloon envelope was cut up and sold as a tarpaulin. The technically advanced nacelle and its motors were bought by an American company.
Trivia
On the first exit, the Stagl-Mannsbarth had to make an emergency landing in stormy weather. With the help of the local population, crews from the aeronautical institute and a deployed Austro-Hungarian company from Vienna, the airship was pulled from Himberg to Fischamend over many hours .
On October 20, 1911, the airship made a sensational trip to the wedding celebrations of the later imperial couple Archduke Karl Franz Joseph and Princess Zita von Bourbon-Parma in Schwarzau am Steinfelde . A huge bouquet of roses was thrown into the courtyard of the palace and the bow was lowered three times as a sign of homage.
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
- ↑ Rudolf Ster, Reinhard Ringl: The Austro-Hungarian Military Aeronautical Institution Fischamend . Ed .: ILF. tape 1 . carinaverlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-9503429-8-7 , p. 200 .
- ↑ Aviation interest group Fischamend. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Multi-page report Allgemeine Automobilzeitung No. 12 1911