Argus As 10 C, partially sectioned, showing some inner parts

Fieseler Fi 156 Storch and an Argus As 10 C side by side

Argus As 10 C

The 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 during and shortly after WWII. Argus Motoren was a German manufacturing firm known for their series of small inverted- V engines and the V1 flying bomb Pulse jet engine. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. An aircraft engine is a Propulsion system for an Aircraft. Aircraft engines are almost always a type of lightweight Internal combustion engine. A trainer is an Aircraft used to develop piloting navigational or war-fighting skills in flight crew The Arado Ar 66 was a German single-engined two-seat training biplane developed in 1933. The Focke Wulf Fw 56 Stösser ( German: Goshawk) was a single-engined high-wing monoplane advanced trainer aircraft built in the WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout

It was first built in 1928.

It was later re-developed and renamed as Argus As 401.

Specifications (Argus As 10 C)

General characteristics

• Type: 8-cylinder, air-cooled, 90º inverted Vee piston aircraft engine
• Bore: 120 mm (4. A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders mounted on the Crankcase in two banks of four cylinders in most cases set at a right angle to each other 72 in)
• Stroke: 140 mm (5. 5 in)
• Displacement: 12. 667 l (773 in³)
• Length: 1,105 mm (43. 51 in)
• Height: 936 mm (36. 85 in)
• Dry weight: 213 kg (470 lb)

Components

• Valvetrain: Two valves per cylinder.
• Fuel system: Two Sun carburetors adapted for aerobatics
• Fuel type: 80 octane
• Cooling system: Air

Performance

• Power output:
  
  • 179 kW (240 hp) at 2,000 rpm
• Specific power: 14. In Engineering, the term specific power can refer to power either per unit of Mass, Volume or Area, although power per unit of 8 kW/L (0. 31 hp/in³)
• Compression ratio: 5. The compression ratio is a single number that can be used to predict the performance of any engine particularly piston engines (but can be used on essentially any Internal-combustion 9:1
• Specific fuel consumption: 235 gr/(hp*h); 0. Brake specific fuel consumption ( BSFC) is a measure of an Engine 's efficiency 518 lb/(hp*h)
• Power-to-weight ratio: 0. Power-to-weight ratio (specific power is a calculation commonly applied to Engines and other mobile power sources to enable the comparison of one unit or design to another 835 kW/kg (0. 51 hp/lb)

Applications

 Germany

• Arado Ar 66
• Arado Ar 76
• Dornier Do 12
• Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
• Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser
• Focke-Wulf Fw 58
• Gotha Go 145
• Klemm Kl 151
• Messerschmitt Bf 108 "Taifun"

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Original pictures and data of this article were taken from "Museo del Aire", Cuatro Vientos, Madrid, Spain