S 24Kiebitz
S 24 left, Daimler L.20 right
General information
Type	Sport aircraft
Manufacturer	Focke-Wulf
History
First flight	1928

TheFocke-Wulf S 24Kiebitz (German: "Lapwing") was a sport aircraft built in Germany in the later 1920s. It was asingle-baybiplane of conventional design with equal-span,unstaggered wings, braced with N-typeinterplane struts. The pilot and a single passenger sat in tandem opencockpits, and it was fitted with a fixedtailskid undercarriage. The wings could befolded for transportation or storage, and the aircraft was designed to be towed by a car.

In 1929, the S 24 set a world distance record in its class of 1,601 km (995 mi) and in 1931 was used byGerd Achgelis to win the German aerobatic championship.

Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928^[1]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in)
• Wingspan: 8.9 m (29 ft 2 in)
• Height: 2.25 m (7 ft 5 in)
• Wing area: 19.5 m² (210 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 350 kg (772 lb)
• Gross weight: 570 kg (1,257 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 ×Siemens-Halske Sh 4 5-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 45 kW (60 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch propeller

Performance

• Maximum speed: 140 km/h (87 mph, 76 kn)
  
• Landing speed: 65 km/h (40 mph; 35 kn)
• Service ceiling: 4,300 m (14,100 ft)
• Rate of climb: 21.1 m/s (4,150 ft/min)
• Time to altitude: 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in 7 minutes

Wikimedia Commons has media related toFocke-Wulf S 24 Kiebitz.

• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989).Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 395.
• "Focke-Wulf "Kiebitz"".Flight:320–21. 18 April 1929. Retrieved2008-03-23.

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