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The Comte AC-12 Moskito was a 1930s
Swiss
Swiss most commonly refers to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Swiss may also refer to: Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
* Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
* Swiss Café, an old café located ...
three-seat light touring cabin
monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple wings.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
produced by
Flugzeugbau A. Comte.
Design
The AC-12 was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed
tailwheel landing gear
Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft Landing gear, undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the Center of gravity of an aircraft, center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail ...
. The enclosed cabin had a single seat forward for the pilot and a bench seat behind for two passengers. It was available fitted with a number of engines including the
Argus As 8
The Argus As 8 was a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline aircraft engine produced in Germany by Argus Motoren in the 1930s.
Variants
;As 8A:Initial production version maximum for 5 minutes, continuous.
;As 8B:A more powerful variant de ...
and
de Havilland Gipsy III inline engines or a
Armstrong Siddeley Lynx
The Armstrong Siddeley Lynx is a British seven-cylinder Aircraft engine, aero engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley. It was developed as a single row version of the two-row Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar. Testing began in 1920 and 6,000 had been p ...
radial.
Specifications (with Argus engine)
References
Notes
Bibliography
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See also
1930s Swiss civil utility aircraft
AC-12
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
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