Udet U 11 Kondor

U 11 Kondor
Role Eight-seat airliner
National origin Germany
Manufacturer Udet Flugzeugbau
First flight 19 January 1926
Primary user Deutsche Luft Hansa
Number built 1


The Udet U 11 Kondor was a German four-engined airliner designed and built by Udet Flugzeugbau, only one was built.[1][2]

Design and development

The U 11 Kondor was an open-cockpit, metal-fuselage, wooden high-wing monoplane powered by four 100 hp (75 kW) Siemens-Halske Sh 12 piston engines in shaft-driven pusher configuration.[1] It had a crew of three and room for eight passengers with a dangerously close clearance between the pusher propellers and rear passenger door, which caused one fatality.[1] The aircraft was tested by Harry Rother near Munich, finding a tail-heavy condition which required addition of larger control surfaces. The only U 11 was first flown on 19 January 1926 and was refused by Deutsche Luft-Reederei then purchased by Deutsche Luft Hansa, crashing on its delivery flight. The cost to develop and produce the prototype was a factor in the collapse of the company, which was then taken over by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.[1]

Specifications (U 11)

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era


References

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Orbis 1985, p. 3035
  2. ↑ Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage. Aircraft of the Luftwaffe, 1935-1945: An Illustrated Guide. p. 28.

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