Ufag C.I

Ufag C.I History

The Ufag C.I was a two-seat, single-engine biplane fighter for the aviation service of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The aircraft debuted in April 1918 and proved to be an excellent mount, quickly justifying a mass production order of 284 examples in addition to the initial 11 examples. Despite the large order book, only 166 of these aircraft were delivered by October 1918, and the war officially ended in November. CI was originally used for Fliks 47/F and Fliks 58/D.

The Ufag C. I is derived from the Hansa-Brandenburg C. II design and is essentially the successor to the previous design.

The design of the Ufag C.i was traditional at the time. The wings of this biplane have the same span and are staggered with the upper components before the lower ones. The wing features a single cabin and parallel struts. The engine was mounted in the forward compartment of the plate-side fuselage, driving a two-bladed wooden propeller.

The powerplant is a 230-horsepower single liquid-cooled Hiero 6-cylinder in-line engine. The pilot sits behind the engine compartment and uses one or two forward-synchronized 8mm machine guns. His observer sat directly aft, operating his own trainable 8mm machine gun. The fuselage tapers to a conventional tail unit with a large horizontal surface and a small vertical tail.

The landing gear is fixed and consists of two main landing gear wheels and a tail skid. The support wheels are located under the engine compartment, just in front of the lower wing, and supported by struts.

Performance specs indicate a top speed of 118 mph and a top speed of 16,075 ft. Engine life is limited to 3 hours.

Phonix lent its production talent to C.I and produced at least 40 of these examples.

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