Kalkert KE.5 / Ksoll KE.5

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Are the two aircraft Kalkert KE.5 and the Ksoll KE.5 identical aircraft? Or one of both a derivative?

I know that both of them came about at the same time. The Kalkert development had a 30hp engine, the Ksoll aircraft a Bristol "Cherub III" of 36hp.

Both aircraft were high-wingers. Kalkert was indeed a designer, but it is said at Ksoll: He had a light aircraft build by an other man.

The Ksoll KE.5 received the aircraft identifier D-1227, from the Kalkert KE.5 I know no identifier.

Does anyone of you have more information, possibly photos?
 
Dear Maveric,

as I know,no relationship between Josef Ksoll and Albert Kalkert,even Ksoll type
five aircraft was called KE.V by Roman letter and not Arabic letter.
 
Source: Bruno Lange "Typenhandbuch der deutschen Luftfahrttechnik"

Both are called K.E.5 !!!
 
Maveric said:
Source: Bruno Lange "Typenhandbuch der deutschen Luftfahrttechnik"

Both are called K.E.5 !!!

I think not,it mentioned as KE.V;

http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_D-4.html
 

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Maveric,can you send a drawing or a picture for Ksoll KE.V or 5 ?.
 
Very strange,

I inverted the search,and track Kalkert KE.5 in this site,I know it was actually built,
but no evidence or a hint for it ?,I get all pages,maybe my glasses is not good,can
anyone confirm.

http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_D-.html
 
This is really fantastic. Many, many thanks...you made my day;)
 
A more Info about Joseph Ksoll is here,


Alas, the Aviation in Germany links are dead. The j2mcl Planeurs site may be a more useful source:
-- https://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-hommes/hommes-fiche_0int.php?code=216

Ksoll Galgenvogel I - 1923 single-seat high-wing sailplane
- Galgenvogel I: Wingspan 14.00 m; wing area 17 m2
-- https://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php?code=2217

Ksoll Galgenvogel II - 1924 single-seat motor-glider [1]
- Galgenvogel II: Intended for Rhön & Rossitten comp.
- Galgenvogel II: 1 x ILO 2-stroke engine; span (??) m
-- https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_90667.html

Ksoll Breslau - 1924 single-seat sesquiplane* sailplane
- Breslau: Adjustable AoA for lower wing & elevators**
- Breslau: Wingspan (??) m; wing area (??) m2
-- * But described by most sources as a 'Doppeldecker'
-- ** Adjusted inflight by control stick & levers, respectively
-- https://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php?code=2036

Ksoll Galgenvogel III - 1926 single-seat sesquiplane sailplane
- Galgenvogel III: Refined variation upon 1924 Breslau
- Galgenvogel III: Wingspan 15.00 m; wing area 18 m2
- Galgenvogel III: Adjustable AoA lower wing panels
-- https://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php?code=2218

Ksoll KE.5 - 192? single-seat parasol monoplane; D-1227
- KE.5 : (??) no more details
- KE.5 : Presumeably, 'KE' was for 'Ksoll Eindecker' (??)

BTW, the usual spelling is Joseph Ksoll (eg: Flugsport) but Josef Ksoll is also seen (eg: pg. 7, Die Flugzeuge der Firma Stahlwerk Mark by Günter Frost, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dt. Luftfahrthistorik. For the latter reference, I wonder if there is an unwritten inference that Ksoll's KE.5 might have been inspired by the Mark R III 22 lightplane? The two types certainly look similar.

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[1] One 'issue' with this listing is a photograph mounted by ETH Zürich - "Ksoll 'Breslau' Caption: Pictures from the glider competition in Rossitten, 10.-16.5.1924". This image purporting to be Breslau shows a parasol-winged motor-glider answering the description of the Galgenvogel II (BTW, galgenvogel means 'gallows bird' or someone deserving to hang ... a bit dark ... is there another meaning?).
-- https://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_90667.html

My description of Breslau is cribbed from page 79 of Dr.-Ing. Werner von Langsdorff's Das Segelflugzeug (J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, München, 1931). I would tend to trust Langsdorff but I do not really know which description is accurate.
 
Thank you my dear Apophenia,

frankly,this company was a mystery,even it's name (Kalkert),in another
encyclopedia,they called it Ramor ?!.
 

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