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The Caspar C 32 was an aircraft developed in
Germany
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for
aerial spraying
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in the late 1920s. It was a single-bay
biplane
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with staggered, equal-span wings that accommodated the pilot and a single passenger or observer in tandem open
cockpit
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The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls th ...
s. A small, additional
horizontal stabiliser
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was fitted near the top of the tall single tail fin above the main horizontal stabiliser.
Design and development
The first example was used by the Biologische Reichsanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft in
Berlin
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until the early 1930s, before being acquired by
DVS in 1933. DVS also purchased two examples directly from Caspar.
Operational history
The fourth and last C 32 built was bought by the Graf Solms-Laubach and named ''Germania''.
Otto Könnecke
''Leutnant'' (later Lieutenant Colonel) Otto Könnecke (20 December 1892 – 25 January 1956) PLM, MMC, HoH, IC, was a leading German fighter ace of World War I with 35 victories. He was one of only five pilots to receive Germany's highest dec ...
was to have made a transatlantic crossing with it, but ongoing bad weather led to the continuous postponing of the event. Eventually, the plan was changed to making an ''eastward'' flight to the
United States
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, via
India
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and
Japan
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. Könnecke departed
Cologne
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on 27 September 1927, but by early 1928 was forced to turn back having only reached India.
Specifications (C 32)
References
Further reading
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External links
German Aircraft Between 1919-1945
{{Caspar aircraft
1920s German agricultural aircraft
C032
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1928