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1925
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MAY 28, 1925 The cantilever monoplane wing is mounted on two streamlinepanels growing out of the top of the fuselage. Normally the U.8 is fitted with 100 h.p. Siemens radial engine, butin the Round-Germany flight at least one of the machines will be fitted with 100 h.p. Bristol " Lucifer." The photo-graph of the U.8 published herewith shows the machine with the Siemens engine. The dimensions of the U.8 are: Length o.a. 7-12 m.(23 ft. 4 ins.) ; wing span, 12 m. (39 ft. 4 ins.) ; wine area 18 sq. m. (193-7 sq. ft.) The following figures of weight and performance relateto the machine as fitted with Siemens engine, but, pre- sumably, do not differ very greatly from the Bristol-enginedmachine. Weight empty, 490 kg. (1,080 lbs.) ; useful load, 370 kg. (815 lbs.) ; total loaded weight, 860 kg. (1,895 lbs.).The top speed is 170 km. 'h. (106 m.p.h.), and the cruising speed 140 km./h. (87 m.p.h.). The climb to a 1,000 m.occupies 13£ minutes, and the ceiling is 3,000 m. (10,000 ft.). The U.10 represents the type of machine with which theUdet firm started, it being a low-wing cantilever monoplane. SPAN 32' IO" LENGTH 17' ll" WING AREA 13-4 5S<*R KOLIBRI U 7 SPAN 39'-4" LENGTH E3'-4" WING AREA 193-68 U 8 SPAN 34'- 9" LENGTH I 9' —4" WING AREA I5O\5SQFC General arrangement drawings of three Udet machines entered for the Round-Germany Flight : The types represented are : The U.7 " Kolibri '• light monoplane, the U.8 commercial monoplane, and the U.10 low-wing sports monoplane. 325
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