Wild WTS

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Wild WTS
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Type: Training aircraft
Design country:

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland

Manufacturer:

Wild Flugzeugbau, Uster and Dübendorf

First flight:

1915

Commissioning:

1916

Production time:

1915

Number of pieces:

2 ( matriculation no.133, 140 )

Wild WTS was a two-seater double - decker with wooden wings and fabric covering manufactured by Robert Wild in 1915 . The aircraft was used as a training aircraft within the Swiss Air Force until 1922.

history

Robert Wild originally worked for Aviatik , a manufacturer of vehicles and aircraft at the time in Mulhouse in Alsace . At the national exhibition in Bern in 1914, the Aviatik CI aircraft he developed was exhibited. The exhibit was purchased for the Luftwaffe in the same year without being tested. One year later, in 1915, Wild was commissioned to develop a training aircraft for the Swiss Air Force.

The two WTS aircraft designed by Wild were manufactured in the course of 1915, delivered to the Air Force in June 1916 and put into service with registration numbers 133 and 140.

Already on June 5, 1916 there was a total loss after a landing accident with the WTS No. 133. The Wild WTS with the No. 140 remained in flight service until 1921. In that year it had then reached the permitted total flight hours. Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the two aircraft or parts of them.

Both planes had a Mercedes DI engine. This engine was developed by Daimler-Benz AG in Berlin and manufactured by Daimler Motorenbau in Stuttgart . The engine was a liquid-cooled four-stroke in-line engine with 6 cylinders and twin carburetors. It had a rated output of 110 hp at 1400 revolutions per minute.

Technical specifications

Mercedes D II, successor to the Mercedes D I of the Wild WTS
Parameter Data
length 7.80 m
span 12.00 m
height 3.00 m
Max. Takeoff mass 1080 kg
Top speed 105 km / h
Service ceiling 3000 m
Range 200 km
Engine Mercedes DI, 110 PS (approx. 80 kW)
Armament -

See also

literature

  • Jakob Urech, Emil Hunziker: The airplanes of the Swiss Air Force since 1914 , published by the Dept. of the Dübendorf military airfields, Th. Gut & Co publisher, 1st edition Stäfa 1974

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Urech, Emil Hunziker: The aircraft of the Swiss Air Force since 1914 , published by the Dept. of the Dübendorf military airfields, Th. Gut & Co publishing house, 1st edition Stäfa 1974, p. 40