The SSW Thread

[Wingman81]

Hello mates.
I found an interesting article in Flight Magazine, March 13, 1919 about one of my favourite SSW D.IV 

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/1919,PageID_14.html

[No.1]

This is great airplane for sure and nice link too 

[santynus]

this link is fantastic 
thank you for share it

[safo_test]

+1

a there is some pics of the Zeppelin which we were talking about on another topic (first of the heavies)

[No.1]

Nice spotting Safo 

[Bruno]

Hello all

Thanks for the link Wingman

I see that from a forum to another you have the same favorite plane

SSK D III is a beauty too isn' it ?

http://www.bredow-web.de/Luftwaffenmuseum/Historisch/Siemens-Schuckert_D-III/siemens-schuckert_d-iii.html

[No.1]

It is wonderful to see this airplane preserved  Or this is replica?

[Bruno]

Under the photo they said in deutsh

"Der Leiter des Internationalen Luftfahrt Museums in Villingen-Schwenningen, Manfred Pflum,
 fertigte in jahrelanger mühevoller Kleinarbeit einen 1 : 1 Nachbau des Jagdflugzeuges Siemens-Schuckert D III nach Originalplänen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg an. Etwa 6.500 Arbeitsstunden sollen nach seinen Angaben aufgewendet worden sein. Er schleppte die Maschine mit einer Flugzeuganhänger 800 Kilometer über die Autobahn zum Luftwaffenmuseum. "

I kenne nicht mehr Deutsch but I think that this plane is a replica  for which 6500 Hours were
needed to be rebuilt-May be i am wrong, but I think that, sadly, no original DIII or DIV subsist
to day

Cordialement
Bruno

[Leo]

 
Brunno:

You have it right the SSW is a replica.

Did the germans ever wing out the cooling problems with SH engines?

[Bruno]

Hello Leo

On first batch the Siemens Halke engines were enclosed in large cowlings and over heated and even sized up !!!Not to be forgotten that we were at the end of war and than German was in hurry to find news models -The second batch of fighters was modified with a cutaway at lower section of the engine cowling
Later The SSK DIV was better but had engine over heating too at high speed-

Bruno

[No.1]

Maybe this extract could be of interest 

[Leo]

 

Hi Brunno:

I believe these engines were lubed by castor oil.  That was an item not tobe found in Germany or AH.  They used a ersatz product which was not as satisfactory,  Did that contribute to the overheating and seizures?

leo

[Wingman81]

Just some links:

http://w4.siemens.de/archiv/en/persoenlichkeiten/gruender.html#5
http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter1/sswdiii.htm
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/aircraft/1707-siemens-halske-sh-iiia-rotary.html

[Wingman81]

That costed me hours to increase my virtual memory and resize it. I hope you appreciate it 

[No.1]

Nice image  From your collection ?