Everything about Argus Motoren totally explained
Argus Motoren was a
German aircraft engine manufacturing firm, known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the
pulsejet used on the
V1 flying bomb. Argus Motoren was shut down at the end of
World War II.
History
The Argus Motoren company first started in
Berlin in 1906 as a subsidiary of Henri Jeannin's automobile business, spun off entirely in November 1906. Their early products were car and boat engines, but later that year they were contracted to produce engines for the
French airship,
Ville de Paris, supplying them with a converted boat motor. They turned increasingly to the aviation market, and were widely used by 1910, receiving an order from
Sikorsky for one of his large airplanes under construction in
Russia. During
World War I Argus produced engines for the German army and air corps.
After the war Germany was forbidden from producing aircraft, and the company turned again to automobile engines. They were bought by Horch Automobile in 1919. In 1926 they resumed aircraft engine design, producing a series of inverted inline and V-block engines. Although all were at the "low-power" end of the market by the start of
World War II, they saw extensive use in training aircraft and other utility roles. Most famous of these designs are the
Argus As 10, used in the
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, in the
Arado Ar 66 and in the
Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser; and the
Argus As 410, used on many German trainers, including the
Arado Ar 96.
List of Argus engines
- Argus As III, 6-cylinder upright inline, used in WWI aircraft
- Argus As 5, odd radial-like arrangement 24-cylinder inline
- Argus As 8, 4-cylinder inverted inline
- Argus As 10, 8-cylinder inverted V
- Argus As 16, 4-cylinder inverted inline
- Argus As 17, 6-cylinder inverted inline
- Argus As 401, development and renumbering of the As 10
- Argus As 402
- Argus As 410, 12-cylinder inverted V
- Argus As 411, 12-cylinder inverted V
- Argus As 412, 24-cylinder H-block, prototyped
- Argus As 413, similar to 412, never built
Image:Aircraft engine Argus 100 PS Prop.jpg|Argus 100 PS.
Image:Aircraft engine Argus As 8 LH.jpg|Argus As 8.
Image:Aircraft engine Argus As 411 A.jpg|Argus As 411.
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