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Škoda-Kauba
The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was a Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer, formed during World War II as a joint venture between Otto Kauba and the Škoda Works. Kauba produced a number of innovative designs and the company built several prototypes, with the Škoda-Kauba SK 257, SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist at the end of the war. History Otto Kauba was an Austrian engineer who developed a novel idea for a flying bomb during World War II. His personal friendship with Hermann Göring led to a joint collaboration with the Škoda Works. The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was opened in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1942.Saffek & Plocek (1992). Kauba went on to produce a number of innovative aircraft and the company built several prototypes, with the Škoda-Kauba SK 257, SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist when Prague was liberated at the end of the war in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Škoda-Kauba SK 257
The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was a Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer, formed during World War II as a joint venture between Otto Kauba and the Škoda Works. Kauba produced a number of innovative designs and the company built several prototypes, with the SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist at the end of the war. History Otto Kauba was an Austrian engineer who developed a novel idea for a flying bomb during World War II. His personal friendship with Hermann Göring led to a joint collaboration with the Škoda Works. The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was opened in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1942.Saffek & Plocek (1992). Kauba went on to produce a number of innovative aircraft and the company built several prototypes, with the SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist when Prague was liberated at the end of the war in 1945.Titz & Zazvonil (1965). After the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Škoda-Kauba V5
The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was a Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer, formed during World War II as a joint venture between Otto Kauba and the Škoda Works. Kauba produced a number of innovative designs and the company built several prototypes, with the SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist at the end of the war. History Otto Kauba was an Austrian engineer who developed a novel idea for a flying bomb during World War II. His personal friendship with Hermann Göring led to a joint collaboration with the Škoda Works. The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was opened in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1942.Saffek & Plocek (1992). Kauba went on to produce a number of innovative aircraft and the company built several prototypes, with the SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist when Prague was liberated at the end of the war in 1945.Titz & Zazvonil (1965). After the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Škoda-Kauba V4
The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was a Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer, formed during World War II as a joint venture between Otto Kauba and the Škoda Works. Kauba produced a number of innovative designs and the company built several prototypes, with the SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist at the end of the war. History Otto Kauba was an Austrian engineer who developed a novel idea for a flying bomb during World War II. His personal friendship with Hermann Göring led to a joint collaboration with the Škoda Works. The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was opened in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1942.Saffek & Plocek (1992). Kauba went on to produce a number of innovative aircraft and the company built several prototypes, with the SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist when Prague was liberated at the end of the war in 1945.Titz & Zazvonil (1965). After the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Škoda-Kauba Sk 257
The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was a Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer, formed during World War II as a joint venture between Otto Kauba and the Škoda Works. Kauba produced a number of innovative designs and the company built several prototypes, with the SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist at the end of the war. History Otto Kauba was an Austrian engineer who developed a novel idea for a flying bomb during World War II. His personal friendship with Hermann Göring led to a joint collaboration with the Škoda Works. The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was opened in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1942.Saffek & Plocek (1992). Kauba went on to produce a number of innovative aircraft and the company built several prototypes, with the SK 257 fighter-trainer entering limited production before being cancelled. The company ceased to exist when Prague was liberated at the end of the war in 1945.Titz & Zazvonil (1965). After the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Kauba
Otto Kauba (1908-1962) was an Austrian engineer who designed aircraft in the period during and after World War II. He also designed motor scooters in the postwar period. Early life Otto Kauba was born in Vienna on 11 September 1908. Career On the outbreak of World War II Kauba was selling luxury cars and had become friends with ''Reichsmarschall'' Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe. Škoda-Kauba He developed a novel idea for a flying bomb and used his personal friendship with Göring to obtain a joint collaboration with the Škoda Works in order to develop his ideas. The Škoda-Kauba Flugzeugbau was opened in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1942.Saffek & Plocek (1992). Although the flying bomb project failed, Kauba went on to produce a number of innovative aircraft and the company built several prototypes, including the SL6 to test the control system for the proposed tailless Blohm & Voss P 208. The SK 257 fighter-trainer incorporated a novel tapered tubular steel wing spar w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Škoda-Kauba P14
The Škoda-Kauba SK P14 was a ramjet-powered emergency fighter project for the ''Luftwaffe''. It was designed by the Škoda-Kauba industries towards the end of World War II as part of the Third Reich defense effort against the devastating allied bombing raids. Design and development Engineer Eugen Sänger worked on this ramjet fighter project after his Silbervogel proposal for a suborbital glider to the Reich Air Ministry was rejected. The fighter was an approved project in line with the 1944 designs of the High Command of the Luftwaffe for basic interceptors. The Škoda-Kauba Aircraft Industries, located in a suburb of Nazi-occupied Prague, designed the SK P14 as a single-seat monoplane powered by a Sänger ramjet engine. Since the ramjet had a diameter of 1.5 m and a length of 9.5 m, the massive engine and its tubular air-intake duct formed most of the fuselage structure. The cockpit had the pilot flying the aircraft in a prone position. Its landing gear was a retractable skid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outboard Tail
An outboard tail is a type of aircraft tail or empennage which is split in two, with each half mounted on a short boom just behind and outboard of each wing tip. It comprises outboard horizontal stabilizers (OHS) and may or may not include additional boom-mounted vertical stabilizers (fins). OHS designs are sometimes described as a form of tailless aircraft. The outboard tail surfaces are positioned so that they interact constructively with the wingtip vortices to significantly reduce drag, without causing undue structural or handling difficulties. Characteristics An outboard tail is located outboard of the main wing tips. Although sometimes described as tailless, the outboard tail configuration differs from a tailless wing in that the horizontal stabilizer is discontinuous from the main wing surface, typically being set further back and requiring a short boom to support it. If the wing is swept, then the boom can be very short and the front of the tail may overlap the rear of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outboard Tail
An outboard tail is a type of aircraft tail or empennage which is split in two, with each half mounted on a short boom just behind and outboard of each wing tip. It comprises outboard horizontal stabilizers (OHS) and may or may not include additional boom-mounted vertical stabilizers (fins). OHS designs are sometimes described as a form of tailless aircraft. The outboard tail surfaces are positioned so that they interact constructively with the wingtip vortices to significantly reduce drag, without causing undue structural or handling difficulties. Characteristics An outboard tail is located outboard of the main wing tips. Although sometimes described as tailless, the outboard tail configuration differs from a tailless wing in that the horizontal stabilizer is discontinuous from the main wing surface, typically being set further back and requiring a short boom to support it. If the wing is swept, then the boom can be very short and the front of the tail may overlap the rear of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blohm & Voss P 208
The Blohm & Voss P.208 was a design project for a tailless swept-wing propeller-powered interceptor designed by the German company Blohm & Voss towards the end of the Second World War. It was the first of several such "arrow-wing" designs, the later ones all being jet powered. History Around 1943-44 it became apparent to German designers that for high-speed flight the swept wing offered many advantages. The chief designer at Blohm & Voss, Richard Vogt, realised that if the tail could be moved out of the way then the engine and propeller could be moved aft in a pusher arrangement, without the need for a long propeller shaft. This left the nose free for an excellent pilot's field of view and the installation of heavy armament. Vogt came up with the idea of placing the tail surfaces at the ends of the swept-back wings. In order to obtain enough control authority for the tail, without sweeping the wing back too far, Vogt devised short tailbooms on the wing tips, to which vertical fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Sänger
Eugen Sänger (22 September 1905 – 10 February 1964) was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Early career Sänger was born in the former mining town of Preßnitz (Přísečnice), near Komotau in Bohemia, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied civil engineering at the Technical Universities of Graz and Vienna. As a student, he came in contact with Hermann Oberth's book ''Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen'' ("By Rocket into Planetary Space"), which inspired him to change from studying civil engineering to aeronautics. He also joined Germany's amateur rocket movement, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Society for Space Travel") which was centered on Oberth. In 1932 Sänger became a member of the SS and was also a member of the NSDAP. Sänger made rocket-powered flight the subject of his thesis, but it was rejected by the university as too fanciful. In 1928 and 1929 the Opel RAK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramjet
A ramjet, or athodyd (aero thermodynamic duct), is a form of airbreathing jet engine that uses the forward motion of the engine to produce thrust. Since it produces no thrust when stationary (no ram air) ramjet-powered vehicles require an assisted take-off like a rocket assist to accelerate it to a speed where it begins to produce thrust. Ramjets work most efficiently at supersonic speeds around and can operate up to speeds of . Ramjets can be particularly useful in applications requiring a small and simple mechanism for high-speed use, such as missiles. The US, Canada, and UK had widespread ramjet powered missile defenses during the 1960s onward, such as the CIM-10 Bomarc and Bloodhound. Weapon designers are looking to use ramjet technology in artillery shells to give added range; a 120 mm mortar shell, if assisted by a ramjet, is thought to be able to attain a range of . They have also been used successfully, though not efficiently, as tip jets on the ends of helicopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Focke-Wulf Ta 152
The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 is a World War II German high-altitude fighter-interceptor designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf. The Ta 152 was a development of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft. It was intended to be made in at least three versions—the Ta 152H ''Höhenjäger'' ("high-altitude fighter"); the Ta 152C designed for medium-altitude operations and ground-attack, using a Daimler-Benz DB 603 and smaller wings; and the Ta 152E fighter-reconnaissance aircraft with the engine of the H model and the wing of the C model. The first Ta 152H entered service with the Luftwaffe in January 1945. The Ta 152 was produced too late and in insufficient numbers to have a significant role in the war. Development Fw 190 The Fw 190's BMW 801 engine was originally designed for bomber and transport aircraft flying at medium altitudes in the range. In keeping with this role it used a relatively simple single-stage supercharger that lacked performance above altitude. This presented a prob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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