Skoda-Kauba Aircraft & Projects

From L + K 21/1966.
 

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Some details from Kbely museum.
Propeller from Skoda-Kauba V8.
Wing from Skoda-Kauba Sk 257.
Badly manipulated (by me) picture of original proposal for Sk P14.
History of Skoda-Kauba.
 

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Some details from Kbely museum.
Propeller from Skoda-Kauba V8.
Wing from Skoda-Kauba Sk 257.
Badly manipulated (by me) picture of original proposal for Sk P14.
History of Skoda-Kauba.

Thank you very much. I think what was going on in Austria, especially in 1945, has either been little researched or remains classified.
 
Bohemia ;) Prague. Also, Eugen Sänger made proposal for supersonic sub-orbital "Amerika Bomber" called Silbervogel, Silver Bird. Quite interresting. Sänger was Czech German and after the dismisal of Silvervogel he worked for Skoda-Kauba.
 
I would like to know what was going on in the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate. Especially research at Brno University.
 
Bohemia ;) Prague. Also, Eugen Sänger made proposal for supersonic sub-orbital "Amerika Bomber" called Silbervogel, Silver Bird. Quite interresting. Sänger was Czech German and after the dismisal of Silvervogel he worked for Skoda-Kauba.


Great Info,we want to see it.
 
Bohemia ;) Prague. Also, Eugen Sänger made proposal for supersonic sub-orbital "Amerika Bomber" called Silbervogel, Silver Bird. Quite interresting. Sänger was Czech German and after the dismisal of Silvervogel he worked for Skoda-Kauba.


Great Info,we want to see it.
You've already seen it. It's the P 14.
 
Bohemia ;) Prague. Also, Eugen Sänger made proposal for supersonic sub-orbital "Amerika Bomber" called Silbervogel, Silver Bird. Quite interresting. Sänger was Czech German and after the dismisal of Silvervogel he worked for Skoda-Kauba.


Great Info,we want to see it.
You've already seen it. It's the P 14.

Let the man do it,and after that we can judge.

Let what man do what?

Incidentally, it's unclear whether Sänger actually worked for Skoda-Kauba. It seems more likely that Skoda-Kauba was simply handed his report of 1943 suggesting a ramjet powered fighter (the included sketch looks remarkably like the P 14) and tidied it up into a 'real' project.
From top:
Sänger's original design from October 1943
Skoda-Kauba P 14 from March 1945
Skoda-Kauba P 14 description front page


Saenger Lorin fighter Oct 1943.jpg P14.jpg P 14 front.jpg
 
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Bohemia ;) Prague. Also, Eugen Sänger made proposal for supersonic sub-orbital "Amerika Bomber" called Silbervogel, Silver Bird. Quite interresting. Sänger was Czech German and after the dismisal of Silvervogel he worked for Skoda-Kauba.


Great Info,we want to see it.
You've already seen it. It's the P 14.
Wait, what? Silbervogel is P 14 or something? There seems to be communication error.
 
Bohemia ;) Prague. Also, Eugen Sänger made proposal for supersonic sub-orbital "Amerika Bomber" called Silbervogel, Silver Bird. Quite interresting. Sänger was Czech German and after the dismisal of Silvervogel he worked for Skoda-Kauba.


Great Info,we want to see it.
You've already seen it. It's the P 14.
Wait, what? Silbervogel is P 14 or something? There seems to be communication error.

No. The 'Silbervogel' is not the P 14. And the name 'Silbervogel' doesn't appear to have been applied until after the war, neither was it called 'Amerika Bomber'. Sänger just calls it 'Raketenbomber' or 'Fernbomber mit raketenantrieb' in the report on that design of August 1944.

These are the known major Sänger works:
Earliest investigation of Lorin drive at the LFA’s Institut für Gasdynamik - report August 1938
Fighter with Lorin drive at the DFS - report October 1943
Rocket bomber (what you call Silbervogel) at the DFS - report August 1944 (based on work carried out between 1937 and 1941)
Me 262 with Lorin drive at the DFS - report January 1945
then the Skoda-Kauba P 14 - report March 1945
 
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These are the known major Sänger works:
Earliest investigation of Lorin drive at the LFA’s Institut für Gasdynamik - report August 1938
Fighter with Lorin drive at the DFS - report October 1943

Can we see those Projects ?.
 
These are the known major Sänger works:
Earliest investigation of Lorin drive at the LFA’s Institut für Gasdynamik - report August 1938
Fighter with Lorin drive at the DFS - report October 1943

Can we see those Projects ?.

The 1938 design is going in Luftwaffe: Secret Projects of the Third Reich. The 1943 design is the top drawing I posted in reply #90.
 
Hi! It's hard to read aircraft size from the drawing, perhaps.......
P14-01 Span : 7m, Length : 9.85m, Height : 4.5m
P14-02 Span : 7.9m, Length : 9.5m, Height : 4.45m
P14.jpg
 

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Hi!
koda-kauba-sk-p14-e9a67a1c-92e3-47c8-b708-eb2a588f27e-resize-750.jpg
 
I'm worried about whether this plane will be able to take off safely and reliably.
 
From, Aerei Nella Storia 63.
 

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Published drawings of Kauba's small experimental monoplanes are few, small, minimally detailed and a poor match to photographs. I have reconstructed a 3-view general arrangement drawing of the pusher-configuration V6 from the photos in Saffek & Ploceck's le Fana No.272 article already mentioned. The SL6 was an outboard-tail test machine made by modifying the V6, but there are no known contemporary renderings so I offer also a notional GA of this, based on a minimal solution of replacing the wing tips with the tail booms and adding some bespoke tailplanes. The photos do not show all angles and sources tend to be inconsistent over dimensions, so they are nominal in that respect. While I have sized and shaped details by eye, I have added very little speculative detail, and then only to finish off something that was obviously there. They cannot be said to be accurate, but I believe they are the best available. Here are some low-resolution copies.
 

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From this book.
 

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Hello,
Is there a book that covers all of the Skoda-Kauba / Otto Kauba plane designs?
 
More photos here:

 
Hello,
Is there a book that covers all of the Skoda-Kauba / Otto Kauba plane designs?

As my dear Justo mentioned,but you can find some of them (not all) in the book,
V.Nemecek "Ceskoslovennska Letadla 1918-1945
 
Skoda -Kauba
 

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