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Klemm kl 25

1,461 StraitAircraft  13 days ago

1000 points baby!!


Thanks to @OtakuSquirrel for engine

Short Introduction

The Klemm kl 25 was a German made leisure civilian plane as well as a trainer manufactured by the klemm company!
More than 600 aircraft were built, and manufacturing licenses were sold to the United Kingdom and the United States.


Stats

The klemm was actually quite widely used in Germany and the US and still no one made one yet.

About 700 were made, including license built US models.


As far as I know, it's the third oldest still-flying plane on germany and there are at least 3 models in Germany, most of which can fly


General characteristics

Crew: 1
Capacity: 1
Length: 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in)
Wingspan: 13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Height: 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 20.0 m2 (215 sq ft)
Airfoil: Göttingen 387[5]
Empty weight: 285 kg (628 lb)
Gross weight: 500 kg (1,102 lb)
Fuel capacity: 50 L (13 US gal; 11 imp gal) in a forward fuselage tank
Powerplant: 1 × Salmson AD.9 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 30 kW (40 hp)
Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller
Performance


This one is a tad bit faster at about 210km/h compared to the 140 IRL but it Stalls at 90 km/h compared to the real life's 50km/h

Have fun!

THANKS FOR 1000

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 83.1ft (25.3m)
  • Length 47.6ft (14.5m)
  • Height 15.9ft (4.8m)
  • Empty Weight 6,908lbs (3,133kg)
  • Loaded Weight 10,832lbs (4,913kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.046
  • Wing Loading 10.2lbs/ft2 (49.9kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,060.0ft2 (98.5m2)
  • Drag Points 4579

Parts

  • Number of Parts 208
  • Control Surfaces 9
  • Performance Cost 710
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    @StraitAircraft I will not be active on this platform for awhile as I have some issues to deal with. I promise once I have delt with these issues I will get back to commenting and making planes
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    And so many more for my 1000 ;)
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    This is the finished post, I wonder why yall up vote the post that I haven't even completed yet 🤔

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    3,567 Sockdragger

    @StraitAircraft you can always go with the French Salmson 5-cylinder radial engine or use the covered 4-cylinder inline engine of the first German versions. I can post the plans on Discord, but you can just as easy get them from Richard Ferriere's plan repository http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/3vues.html

    10 days ago
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    @Sockdragger hello. Engine is to complicated to simplify

    12 days ago
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    @Sockdragger Bet >:)

    12 days ago
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    @Sockdragger :(
    Yeah thanks though! Appreciate it

    12 days ago
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    3,567 Sockdragger

    Ps, you up for a challenge? You have ten days to make a version at half the size (13m/42 ft span) and enter it in https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/n10802/Early-Aviation-Challenge
    If it flies as good as this one, you're a serious contender

    12 days ago
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    3,567 Sockdragger

    It is twice as big as the original and the fuselage is a bit more rounded than the pictures show, but apart of that it's a nice flyer and worth downloading.

    Also.... Congratulations on your first 1000.

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    Gratz on silver Straity!

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    83.2k MrCOPTY

    Congratulations

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