The Argus As III was a six-cylinder, in-line, water-cooled, aircraft engine produced in

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Argus Motoren ''Argus Motoren'' was a German manufacturing firm known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the Argus As 014 pulsejet for the V-1 flying bomb. History Started in Berlin in 1906 as a Argus (automobile), subsidiary of Henri Jeannin's a ...

during

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. The Argus As III produced at 1,400 rpm.Huth, 1920, pp. 232-233

Design and development

Argus Motoren already supplied a limited number 150 hp and 200 hp aircraft engines to the

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in the Summer of 1914.von Gersdorff; Grasmann. 1981, p.22 As these engines did not prove successful Argus decided to concentrate its development efforts on an improved six-cylinder type which became accepted into service in January 1916 as the Argus As III.von Gersdorff; Grasmann. 1981, pp. 26-27 License production of the engine was ordered at Deutz, Güldner, M.A.N.,

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and

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. First operational experience with the engine however proved troublesome, with overheating problems occurring among other things. These problems were only solved after several improvements of the engine and so it took until the end of 1917 for the engine to attain its full operational maturity.

Applications

* AEG C.IV *

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* Albatros C.I * Albatros C.III * Gotha G.IV * Hannover CL.II * Hannover CL.IIIa *

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* LFG Roland D.III * Rumpler C.I *

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* Sablatnig C.I

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