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1949
1949 - 1788.PDF
552- FLIGHT, 27 October HUNGARIAN REVIVAL Nationally Designed Light Aircraft and Sailplanes DURING the war years aircraft manufacture in Hun-gary reached important proportions. Little originaldesign activity, however, was undertaken, produc- tion centring on such types as the Me 109G, Me 410 and Caproni-Reggiane Re.2000. With the Russian advance, the Germans dismantled and removed all equipment and within the past year steps have been taken to recommence aircraft construction. The government is doing much to foster air-mindedness among Hungarian youth and every encouragement is being given to model-building organiza- tions and the officially sponsored gliding and soaring centres. A considerable percentage of the gliders and sailplanes now being delivered to these centres are of national design, although the majority of club aircraft are of foreign origin. Much is being done through the medium of the Orszagos Magyar Repiilo Egyesiilet or O.M.R.E. (National Hun- garian Aeronautical Association) to encourage the production of light aircraft of national design, and during the past twelve months the first results of this policy have become apparent. One of the new Hungarian light types is the R-18 Kanya, built by the Aero-Ever factory at Esztergom, on the Danube. Intended primarily as a glider-tug, it may also be built as a club machine and for army co-operation duties with the Hungarian Air Force. Looking something like a hybrid of the Fieseler Storch and the Zaunkoenig, the R-18 is a high-wing monoplane with wings braced to the lower fuselage longerons by steel-tube vee struts. Slots are installed in the wing leading edges and the entire trail- ing edge is hinged, the inner sections acting as slotted camber-changing flaps and the outer sections as statically balanced and slotted ailerons. The fuselage is of rectangular section, tapering to an ellipse lit the tail, and the cabin seats two persons in side-by-side seats. -•—-...- •-.--..•• . Small-field Operation The prototype has a Walter Major engine but production machines will have a Walter Minor 6-III. The R-r8 offers short take-off and slow-landing characteristics and should prove ideal for operating from small and in- different fields. Leading particulars are: Span, 37ft nin; length, 23ft 6in ; weight empty, 904 lb; loaded weight, 1,521 lb; max. speed, 109 m.p.h.; cruising speed, 93 m.p.h. ; stalling speed, 37 m.p.h. ; climb to 3,280ft, 3 min ; range, 370 miles. Another new light aircraft is the SG-2, which took first place in the powered category of the contest sponsored by O.M.R.E. for light sporting and training aircraft. A low- wing monoplane with a fixed, tailwheel undercarriage, this type is powered by a 105 h.p. Hirth HM 504A-2 engine. The prototype has an all-wood structure with a mono- coque fuselage, but production aircraft will be of metal. Dimensions are: Span, 30ft; length, 21ft nin ; max. speeds of 136 m.p.h. and 108.7 m.p.h. respectively are anticipated. Erno Rubik, designer of the previously mentioned R-18, is also responsible for a number of successful gliders and sailplanes. One of these, the R-22 Futar high-performance sailplane, was Aero-Ever's first post-war product, and took second place in the 1948 Hungarian National Soaring Con- test. A development, known-as the Szuper-Futar, has been built for long-distance flying and is claimed to have an exceptionally good angle of glide. Other designs of Rubik include the R-15 Koma, which won the O.M.R.E. con- test for a two-seat school glider, and the R-16 Lepke single- seater, completed' jn April this year. The all-metal Koma is .of pod-and-boom type; the fuse- lage is of circular cross-section, the cabin seats two per- sons side-by-side, and the tail surfaces are carried on a dural boom and braced to the wing by crosswires. This type is destined to become the standard two-seat training glider at all Hungarian national centres. A high-wing single-seat training glider, the Lepke may also be produced in quantity for the gliding centres. W. G. Samu-Gednczy SG-2 Lepka glider Kanya R.I8 glider tug R.22 Futar sailplane Koma all-metal glider B 16
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