Engineering:Halberstadt C.VIII
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Short description: WWI German reconnaissance biplane
| Halberstadt C.VIII | |
|---|---|
| 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 German and Austro-Hungarian aircraft manufacturers 1908-1918,[2] German Aircraft of the First World War[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 7.35 m (24 ft 1 in)
- Wingspan: 11.985 m (39 ft 4 in)
- Height: 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in)
- Wing area: 33 m2 (360 sq ft)
- 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 (110 mph, 97 kn)
- Endurance: 3 hours 30 minutes
- Service ceiling: 9,000 m (30,000 ft)
- Time to altitude:
- 5,000 m (16,000 ft) in 21 minutes
- 9,000 m (30,000 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
- ↑ "Halberstadt C.VI(IX)". http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/halbc8.html.
- ↑ Treadwell, Terry (April 2011). German and Austro-Hungarian aircraft manufacturers 1908-1918. Amberley Pub. ISBN 978-1445601021.
- ↑ Gray, Peter; Thetford, Owen (1970). German Aircraft of the First World War (2nd ed.). London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-00103-6.
Further reading
- Angelucci, Enzo (1983). The Rand McNally encyclopedia of military aircraft, 1914-1980. San Diego: Military Press. ISBN 0-517-41021-4.
- Cowin, H.W. (2000). German and Austrian aviation of World War I : a pictorial chronicle of the airmen and aircraft that forged German airpower. Oxford: Osprey Pub. ISBN 1-84176-069-2.
- Van Wyngarden, G. (2000). Early German aces of World War I. Oxford: Osprey Pub.. ISBN 1-84176-997-5.
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