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1942
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47* FLIGHT OCTOBER 29TH, 1942 GERMAN "OUTSIDERS" Promising Arado Types Denied Official Acceptance BETWEEN 1934 and 1939 the Arado Flugzeugwerke de veloped a number of designs which were to form the equipment of many Luftwaffe units. The designs were not left in the " drawing-board " stage, but were actually constructed, tested and flown. Yet, with one exception, none of them came into a wider employment with the German Air Force. In quality of design and performance these prototypes were found to be up to Luftwaffe specifica tions and, in fact, sometimes better than other types which have since become standard equipment. But all efforts of the Arado Com pany to bring their aircraft into service with the Luftwaffe failed, and only a few machines were made use of. A number of reasons were respon sible for this, but among them the most important was the difficulty of bringing these types into series pro duction. Other German aircraft manufacturers were reluctant to co operate, and refused to build the types instead of their own designs. Argu ments were put forward that the mass production of the Arado types by other works would be too expensive and require different tools, etc. Finally, a compromise appeared to have been reached; the powerful Junkers and Messerschmitt concerns and the influential Fieseler Company gained the upper hand, and a quiet distribution of " spheres of interest " was arranged. This "freezing" of designs was, in fact, mainly due to the rivalry of the leading aircraft designers. Messer- schmitt, the protege of Rudolf Hess, and a favourite of the Nazi Party which financed him between 1933 and '35. was given the construction of fighters. Heinkel, whose close contact with the High Command dated back to the last war, was to share with The Ar8o Arado's first all-metal construction designed in 1934 as a " pursuit " fighter. One version of the prototype was powered with a Rolls- Royce Kestrel of 575 h.p., the other with a Jumo-210-C of 610 h.p. Junkers the orders for bombers, Henschel, the first dive-bomber, and so on. The Arado, whose " pull " was not strong enough, was left with a very limited field of activity. Yet many of the ideas and features of these Arado aircraft have been made use of by the Luftwaffe and ora by incorporated in other types developed f^ Arado-Ar 199, a twin float all-metal monoplane used for training purposes. It is the seaplane version of the Ar 96B land trainer. since by the German aircraft in dustry. It is for this reason that a closer description of these types is of interest. The Arado-Ar 80 was the first all- rftetal type built by this company. The original design was completed as early as 1934, and a prototype was subsequently developed, of which three versions were built. The air craft, designed to be used as a pursuit fighter, was powered with a Rolls Royce Kestrel engine of 575 h.p. The two other versions were equipped with a Jumo-210-C engine of 610 h.p. The Arado-Ar 80 had a span of 38ft. 7m., length 32ft. 3in., height 8ft., and climbed to 18,000ft. in 9.5 min. to 10 minutes. 30,000ft. is the ceiling of the aircraft. The calculated speed
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