Vintage Wings - Hubner IV Eindecker - 1912

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Hubner IV Eindecker - 1912

Hugo Hubner studied chemistry in Karlsruhe and Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1907.
While he was the director of a brewery in Mannheim in 1911 he got interested in aeronautics, and started the building of his first machine, a biplane. After a serious accident he never flew his airplanes again, being Paul Senge the test pilot.
During 1912 he built three monoplanes, the last of them being represented in this model.
Was a traditional style monoplane, with a wooden structure covered with fabric and a standard rudder/elevator control arrangement. The machine was powered by a 100 Hp. 4 cylinders water cooled Argus engine, with two radiators fitted at both sides of the cockpit. The Hubner IV had a maximun speed of around 110 Km/h.
The aircraft was stored away in the brewery at the beginning of WWI, and rediscovered circa 1980. After a complete restoration in 1983, is on display in the Auto und Technikmuseum in Sinsheim, Germany.