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The Bücker Bü 134 was a German single engine, high wing cabin
monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...
prototype
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and Software prototyping, software programming. A prototyp ...
designed and built by Bücker Flugzeugbau GmbH.
History
Two of the designs made by Bücker's Swedish engineer Anders J. Anderson, the Bücker Bü 134, of which only one was built, and a later development, the
Bücker Bü 180 Student, could have been the result of the
Volksflugzeug
The ''Volksflugzeug'' (People's Aircraft) was a grand Nazi-era scheme for the mass-production of a small and simple airplane in the 1930s. It was one of the attempts of the Nazi regime to use consumer technologies as a propaganda tool.
Unlike th ...
proposal made by the LC II, the department of the ''Technisches Amt'' of the
Nazi Ministry of Aviation responsible for the development of new aircraft, even though the Bü 134 was powered by a
Hirth HM 504 A motor which with 105 HP fell a bit beyond the scheme.
Development
In 1936 the Bücker Flugzeugbau company developed their first monoplane design. The Bü 134 was intended as a light general aviation aircraft featuring side by side seating. The wings were foldable for convenient hangarage. Flight testing was not successful and the type was not put into series production. The single prototype aircraft,
D-EQPA, was destroyed in a hangar fire on 21 May 1939.
Specifications (Bü 134)
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1930s German sport aircraft
Bücker aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1936