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Argus Motoren was a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm, known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the pulsejet used on the V1 flying bomb. Argus Motoren was shut down at the end of World War II.

History

The Argus Motoren company first started in Berlin in 1906 as a subsidiary of Henri Jeannin's automobile business, spun off entirely in November 1906. Their early products were car and boat engines, but later that year they were contracted to produce engines for the French airship, Ville de Paris, supplying them with a converted boat motor. They turned increasingly to the aviation market, and were widely used by 1910, receiving an order from Sikorsky for one of his large airplanes under construction in Russia. During World War I Argus produced engines for the German army and air corps.

After the war Germany was forbidden from producing aircraft, and the company turned again to automobile engines. They were bought by Horch Automobile in 1919. In 1926 they resumed aircraft engine design, producing a series of inverted inline and V-block engines. Although all were at the "low-power" end of the market by the start of World War II, they saw extensive use in training aircraft and other utility roles. Most famous of these designs are the Argus As 10, used in the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, in the Arado Ar 66 and in the Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser; and the Argus As 410, used on many German trainers, including the Arado Ar 96.

List of Argus engines

  • Argus As III, 6-cylinder upright inline, used in WWI aircraft
  • Argus As 5, odd radial-like arrangement 24-cylinder inline
  • Argus As 8, 4-cylinder inverted inline
  • Argus As 10, 8-cylinder inverted V
  • Argus As 16, 4-cylinder inverted inline
  • Argus As 17, 6-cylinder inverted inline
  • Argus As 401, development and renumbering of the As 10
  • Argus As 402
  • Argus As 410, 12-cylinder inverted V
  • Argus As 411, 12-cylinder inverted V
  • Argus As 412, 24-cylinder H-block, prototyped
  • Argus As 413, similar to 412, never built



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Argus As 8.

Argus As 411.
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"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
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Location of Berlin within Germany / EU

Coordinates
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Ville de Paris may refer to:
  • Paris
  • French ship Ville de Paris (1764)
  • HMS Ville de Paris

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Hymn of the Russian Federation


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(and largest city) Moscow

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 Soviet Union
 United States
 United Kingdom
 China
 France
...et al. Axis powers:
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
...et al.
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Argus As 10 was a German-designed and built "low power" aircraft engine, used mainly in training aircraft like Arado Ar 66 and Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser and small low range reconnaissance & communications aircraft like Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
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Type Reconnaissance & communications
Manufacturer Fieseler
Maiden flight 1936
Introduced 1937
Primary user Luftwaffe
Produced 1937-1949
Number built Over 2,900

The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
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Type Trainer
Manufacturer Arado
Designed by Walter Blume
Maiden flight 1932
Introduction 1933
Primary user Luftwaffe

The Arado Ar 66 was a single-engined, two-seat training biplane, developed in 1933.
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The Focke Wulf Fw 56 Stösser (German : Goshawk) was a single-engined high-wing monoplane aircraft, built in the 1930s in Germany.

Design

It was developed, in accordance with a request by the Reich Air Ministry for an advanced fighter trainer, by Kurt
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The Argus 410 was an inverted air cooled V 12 light aircraft engine first produced in 1937. The engine marked a departure from earlier Argus engines in that it had new construction techniques which gave the engine greater operating speeds and power.
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Type Military Training aircraft
Manufacturer Arado
Maiden flight 1938
Introduced 1939
Primary users Luftwaffe
Czechoslovakian Air Force
Hungarian Air Force
Romanian Air Force
Number built over 11,500 Arado Ar 96
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The Argus As 8 was a four-cylinder, aircooled, inverted inline aircraft engine produced in Germany in the 1930s.

Specifications

  • Bore: 120 mm (4.7 in)
  • Stoke: 140 mm (5.5 in)
  • Displacement: 6.

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Argus As 10 was a German-designed and built "low power" aircraft engine, used mainly in training aircraft like Arado Ar 66 and Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser and small low range reconnaissance & communications aircraft like Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
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The Argus 410 was an inverted air cooled V 12 light aircraft engine first produced in 1937. The engine marked a departure from earlier Argus engines in that it had new construction techniques which gave the engine greater operating speeds and power.
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The Argus 411 was a twelve-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted-Vee aircraft engine developed in Germany during World War II. It was a refined and more powerful version of the Argus As 410.
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