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kmccutcheon · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 09:02 Post subject: Argus AS-5

Anyone have any information on the Argus AS-5 engines? Someone has tentatively identified one of the images in the AEHS gallery as an Argus AS-5, but I can find no information about it in any of the references I have available. It appears to be a double-“W”. Image at:
http://www.enginehistory.org/19.jpg
Thanks in advance,
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wallan · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 252 Location: UK

The picture has been taken face on. Below is a link to a 3/4 view, of the same exhibit. It's in a Polish museum. Looks cool.

http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Luftwaffe/Engines/Argus%20AS%205%20Krakow.jpg

http://www.muz-lotnictwa.krakow.pl/collection.html

wallan · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 252 Location: UK

Should have said that the museum ID's it as an Argus AS-5. If anybody has a copy of 'Kolben-Flugmotoren', handy, they can check number of cylinders and configuration, and confirm.

kmccutcheon · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 09:27 Post subject:

gbrossett · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Midland, Georgia

Would it be described as an X-24 arrangement. The Jumo 222 and Daimler-Benz 604 had this arrangement. Perhaps Argus built a prototype as well

kmccutcheon · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 07:28 Post subject:

kmccutcheon · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 08:55 Post subject:

Piotr Lopalewski, Chief Registry & Research Dept. at the Polish Aviation Museum,Krakow has provided the following information:

Argus As-5
24-cylinder, water cooled "W"configuration
Maximum output: 1,119 kw (1,500 hp) at 1,800 RPM
Compression ratio: 5.6:1
Capacity: 94.1 liters (5,742 cu in)
Weight: 1,100 kg (2,425 lbs)
The engine was probably envisaged for a big, single engine passenger plane. The designer was engineer Riedel–the same who designed the two-stroke starter engine for the Jumo 004 turbojet engine. Three prototype As-5s were built between 1924 and 1927. None were ever flown.

I just love the Internet!!
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gbrossett · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Midland, Georgia

Yes, the internet sure makes the world smaller.

Guess the pre RLM numbering system at Argus Motoren Geselschaft was confusing
AS-5 (W24)
AS-8 (inline 4)
AS-10 (V-10)
AS-410 (V-12) post RLM

gbrossett · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Midland, Georgia

090-099 - various minor manufacturers
100-199 - Bayerische Motorenwerke GmbH (BMW); later changed to 800 block
200-299 - Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke A.G.
300-399 - BMW-Flugmotorenwerke Brandenburg GmbH (BMW-Bramo)
400-499 - Argus-Motoren GmbH
500-599 - Heinkel Hirth Motoren GmbH
600-699 - Daimler-Benz A.G.
700-799 - Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz A.G.
800-899 - Bayerische Motorenwerke GmbH (BMW)

FROM:
http://www.designation-systems.net/non-us/germany.html#_Engines_Piston

rlawrence · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 4

How can I contact the Museum for more info on this bird??

wallan · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 252 Location: UK

If you check their website, below, you get contact details for requests, including e-mail.

http://www.muz-lotnictwa.krakow.pl/estrona.html