| U 11 Kondor | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Type | Eight-seat airliner |
| National origin | Germany |
| Manufacturer | Udet Flugzeugbau |
| Primary user | Deutsche Luft Hansa |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| First flight | 19 January 1926 |
The Udet U 11 Kondor was a German four-engined airliner designed and built by Udet Flugzeugbau, only one was built. [1] [2]
The U 11 Kondor [3] [4] 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]
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