M.Dusing - German & Austro-Hungarian Aero Engines of WWI. Vol.1 /Centennial Perspective/ (64)

Take-off preparations of monoplane Zust and Schlegel, equipped with 50 hp Durkopp engine. Aircraft crashed on its first take-off in August 1910.

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Schlegel-Züst Eindecker (Germany, 1910) A young railroad secretary brought the fledgling art of flying to Constance: The then 28-year-old Ernst Schlegel (German) and student Johann "Boby" Züst (a Swiss) began in February 1910 to build a flying machine and to organize test flights on the parade ground. The construction was made at the Fachschule für Flugtechnik in Mainz and final assembly, west of Konstanz, under an army tent donated by Louis Stromeyer. Count Zeppelin accompanied the trials and supported further experiments with 3,000 marks. On 23 June 1910 in Konstanz was the machine again tried on the parade ground. After the third flight test by Schlegel at a height of 3 m and 150 m distance the machine crashed. Span: 15.6 m, length: 13 m, engine: Dürkopp, 50 HP, fitted in the middle of fuselage, driving two pusher propellers of 2.9 m diameter.

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Fuselage and deck construction of the machine by Schlegel and Züst.