Halberstadt C.VIII
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Halberstadt C.VIII | |
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Role | Reconnaissance aircraft |
Manufacturer | Halberstadt |
First flight | 2 October 1918 |
Status | prototype only |
Primary user | Luftstreitkräfte |
Number built | 1 |
The Halberstadt C.VIII was a prototype two-seat general-purpose biplane built by Halberstadt during World War I.
Design and development
The C.VIII was a single-bay biplane of wooden construction with shortened wings, an elongated fuselage and a Maybach Mb.IV engine. Test flights were successful and the C.VIII was recommended for mass production, but the end of World War I meant that the C.VIII remained at the prototype stage.[1]
Specifications
Data from [2]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in)
- Wingspan: 11.9 m (39 ft 1 in)
- Height: 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
- Empty weight: 928 kg (2,046 lb)
- Gross weight: 1,363 kg (3,005 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Maybach Mb.IV 6-cylinder water-cooled in-line piston engine, 183 kW (245 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed wooden fixed-pitch propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 180 km/h (112 mph; 97 kn)
- Service ceiling: 9,000 m (29,528 ft)
- Time to altitude: 8,997 m (29,518 ft) in 58 minutes
Armament
- Guns: 1x fixed forward firing synchronised 7.92 mm (0.312 in) LMG 08/15 Spandau machine gun and 1x flexibly mounted Parabellum MG14 in the rear cockpit
See also
- Related development
- Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
- Related lists
References
- ↑ http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/halbc8.html
- ↑ Treadwell, Terry, 2010. German and Austro-Hungarian Aircraft Manufacturers 1908-1918. Stroud: Amberley Publishing.
Further reading
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