Albatros L 58
The Albatros L 58 was a continuous tape as a shoulder wing single-engine airliner from the 1920s. Built by the Berlin Albatros Flugzeugwerke model could accommodate one pilot and five to six passengers.
History
In the early 1920s allowed the Commission Aéronautique Inter- Alliee civil aircraft in Germany again. Following the meetings, the German Luftreederei the Albatroswerken commissioned to develop a light passenger aircraft, after which the L 58, the first German post-war aircraft originated. The construction of the L 58 was based on the unreacted design L 57 The first flight of the prototype took place in 1923. Later, the improved version of L 58a was formed. This designed for six passengers model was powered by a Rolls- Royce Eagle VIII engine. The nine built machines first came into the possession of the Deutsche Aero Lloyd, the successor to Deutsche Luftreederei. The resulting compound Lufthansa took over in 1926 a portion of the aircraft in order to use them for a short time. The last specimen, the D -576 sailors clouds, crashed near Essen on June 5, 1928. Two aircraft were sold to the Soviet Union.
Albatros developed in 1926 an enlarged and designed as a biplane version, the L 73
Construction
The L 58 was a large part of existing wooden cantilever shoulder-wing monoplane with an enclosed cabin for five to six passengers. Was powered by a Maybach Mb.IVa engine. The pilot was in an open cockpit in front of the wings. The machine had a grinding tailwheel