rare belgian birds

[Maveric]

Hello friends,

do you have more informations about these belgian aircraft?

 

[fortrena]

Please note that the 3rd airplane (O-BAFG) is the (one and only?) Poncelet Castar. Designed by Paul Poncelet and built by his employer, the Société anoyme belge de constructions aéronautiques (SABCA). Possibly one of the first motorized gliders to be produced. Registered on 28 July 1923. Crashed on 26 July 1925 at a gliding meeting in France, at Vauville, killing its pilot, a SABCA pilot, Victor Simonet.

More information (in French) at http://claudel.dopp.free.fr/Les_planeurs/Descriptions_planeurs/Poncelet_Castar/Poncelet-Castar.htm

 

[fortrena]

Please note that the 2nd aircraft is the glider designed and built around 1934-35 by De Heug, a well known piano maker of Charleroi, Belgium. Fitted with an engine at a later date and (unofficially?) registered as OO-APG.

 

[fortrena]

Please note that the 1st aircraft is a Baudoux-Orta SBO, a motorized glider to be used for training designed by engineer Pierre Baudoux with help of aircraft maker José Orta. Made by the Ateliers Orta of Saint-Hubert, Belgium. Two were made and registered, around 1934-35, i.e. OO-ANZ and OO-ANX (the aircraft in the photo). Prototype (OO-ANZ) possibly test flown in 1935.

 

[fortrena]

Please note that the 4th aircraft is one of the four (?) SABCA Junior primary gliders made in the early 30s. One of many primary gliders directly inspired by Germany's DFS Zögling, a pioneering design created by famous aeronautical engineer Alexander Martin Lippisch, father of Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket-powered bomber interceptor.

 

[Maveric]

Thx fortrena. Do you have some technical data for the SABCA Junior and the glider by de Heug?

 

[fortrena]

I have no technical data, sorry. That said, you may wish to consider contacting https://www.bapa.aero/

 

[Apophenia]

Alternatively, email the Musée Royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire in Brussels. They have a preserved SABCA Junior on display. https://www.klm-mra.be/D7t/fr/contact

BTW, the engine fitted to the de Heug motor-glider was a strut-braced 18 hp Köller M3 pusher. Köller engines were built by Dr. Kroeber & Sohn GmbH in Potsdam. The M3 was a 0.635 litre horizonally-opposed 2-cylinder.

According to BAPA, de Heug hoped to become the Belgian distributor for the Köller engines.

Moteur Jacob L4

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