The Fieseler Fi 98 was a German prototype ground-attack aircraft, a single-seat biplane that Fieseler built to compete with the Henschel Hs 123. It answered a Reich Air Ministry specification issued on 11 February 1934, which asked for a robust biplane able to carry out low-level attack and dive bombing. Three prototypes were ordered but only one was completed, and the design was rejected in favour of the Hs 123, so the Fi 98 never entered production. Its braced-wing biplane layout was already essentially obsolescent. The published specification lists a single BMW 132A-2 nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engine of 485 kW (650 hp) driving a three-bladed variable-pitch propeller, an empty weight of 1,453 kg, a maximum speed of 295 km/h at 2,000 m and a range of 470 km. Armament was two fixed forward-firing 7.92 mm MG 17 machine guns and four 50 kg bombs. The type is documented mainly as the rival design that lost the competition to the Hs 123.
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Engine Class Top Speed (km/h) EngineBMW 132a nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engine 1 Comparison
Body StyleAircraft (no road body style) 1 Connections
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a prototype ground-attack aircraft produced by German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler as a rival to the Henschel Hs 123.
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a prototype ground-attack aircraft produced by German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler as a rival to the Henschel Hs 123.
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The Fi 98 made its maiden flight early in 1935
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a dive-bomber designed in response to the same RLM specification as the Henschel Hs 123, but that never progressed beyond the prototype stage.
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a dive-bomber designed in response to the same RLM specification as the Henschel Hs 123, but that never progressed beyond the prototype stage.
Fi 98a data, engine name
Engine: BMW 132a nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engine
Fi 98a data, power
Power: 650hp
Fi 98a data, empty weight
Empty Weight: 3,197lb
Fi 98a data, maximum speed
Max Speed: 183mph at 6,560ft
Second paragraph, prototypes
Fieseler had been awarded a contract to produce three prototype Fi 98s, but only the first had been completed when work on the project stopped in 1936.
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a prototype ground-attack aircraft produced by German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler as a rival to the Henschel Hs 123.
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a prototype ground-attack aircraft produced by German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler as a rival to the Henschel Hs 123.
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a prototype ground-attack aircraft produced by German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler as a rival to the Henschel Hs 123.
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a prototype ground-attack aircraft produced by German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler as a rival to the Henschel Hs 123.
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The Fieseler Fi 98 was a prototype ground-attack aircraft produced by German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler as a rival to the Henschel Hs 123.
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