AEKKEA-Raab Designations

[Apophenia]

A discussion of AEKKEA-Raab projects has prompted me to chuck up a rough designation lists for AEKKEA.

-- https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/aekkea-raab-aicrafts.11910/

Previously, I'd included designations for the earlier Dietrich* and Raab-Katzenstein designs. These have now been moved to their own topic pages (to match Stargazer's geographical indices). See:

Dietrich-Gobiet/Dietrich Flugzeugwerke Designations
-- https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/dietrich-gobiet-dietrich-flugzeugwerke-designations.12470/

Raab-Katzenstein Designations
-- https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/raab-katzenstein-designations.11929/

[Edit] SPF links updated
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* Fritz Raab and Kurt Katzenstein designed with/under Richard Dietrich, Raab was also test pilot.
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[Apophenia]

AEKKEA-Raab Designations
Ανώνυμος Εταιρεία Κατασκευής και Εκμεταλλεύσεως Αεροπλάνων
(Anónymos Etaireía Kataskevís kai Ekmetalléfseos Aeroplánon)
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Schwalbe II - 1935 2-seat tandem biplane trainer, x 1* (temp. reg. SX-AAL)
- Schwalbe II: Conv. from Raab-Katzenstein Schwalbe Kl 1c airframe

RK-2 Pelikan - 1935 trainer/touring a/c (AEKKEA constr. unconfirmed)

NB: AEKKEA Schwalbe I/II & multi-role Tigerschwalbe IV may be rebuilds

R-26V - Tigerschwalbe development as trainer/light-fighter to Rep. Spain*
-- * 30-40 engineless airframes reported deliv. to Spain then taken to USSR
-- NB: 1937 edition of JAWA lists 'R-26-V' as a "two-seat fighter sesquiplane"

R-27 - 1935 low-wing monoplane fighter, 1 x Hispano-Suiza 12Y, max 430 km/h
- R-27: Wood wing, steel-tube fuselage, derived from Raab-Katzenstein RK-25

AEKKEA-Raab R-28 - (??) Poss. high-wing cantilever monoplane for Spain (??)

AEKKEA-Raab R-29 - 1936 fighter-trainer for Republican Spain,* 280 hp Ranger
- R-29: Described as trainer by Raab but as light fighter in 1936 JAWA
-- * 30 engineless airframes reported delivered to Spain, then taken to USSR
-- https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/a-greek-monoplane-mockup-tried-in-austria.33020/

AEKKEA-Raab R-33 - (Project) 1936 Tigerschwalbe 33 for Republican Spain
-- * Some sources say Tigerschwalbe 33 is the same thing as R-26V

AEKKEA-Raab R-52 - (Project) 1936 twin-engined bomber and/or transport

NB: AEKKEA also built dozens of gliders on modified German designs (Grüne Post, Grunau Baby and Zögling types).
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[Apophenia]

I've revised the above AEKKEA-Raab designition list slightly. The eBook Greek Vehicle & Machine Manufacturers 1800 to present: A Pictorial History by L.S. Skartsis has a section on AEKKEA-Raab but doesn't add to what is already available on Wikipedia. It does, however, have an artist's impression of the R-27 fighter (below, top).

This R-27 impression is acknowledged to be based on a well-known photograph of the Raab-Katzenstein RK-25 light aircraft (below, centre). Not to denigrate the efforts of whomever created this image but it really just depicts a single-seat RK-25 with a fighter-like cockpit canopy and tailwheel added.

So, I decided to have a go at a speculative impression of the R-27 myself. My speculative R-27 image began with the same RK-25 photo. I scaled a SPAD S.510 and added its HS.12Y engine. That dictated that the Raab's fuselage be deepened to match. The empennage was also enlarged - to cope with a seven-fold increase in horsepower.

I left the cockpit open. A canopy may well have been fitted to this 1935 design (and the canopy of the RK-25-32 would be a plausible reference for for its appearance) but I have no evidence for this. Still The speculative R-27's main undercarriage has been lengthened and I fitted spats (similar to those on the Schwalbe II, SX-AAL). However, I left the RK-25's tail skid (there being no evidence for a tailwheel on the R-27 that I am aware of).

 

[Wurger]

Very good work! I like it very much.

 

[Apophenia]

Thank Wurger! Totally speculative, of course. But rather more plausible than that first effort, I hope

 

[hesham]

Hi,

does anyone hear about this Greece company before ?,it was mentioned in two old encyclopedias.

RAAB Flugzeugbau GmbH

Formed at Riga in 1934, but moved to Athens in 1935 as Societe Anonyme pour la Fabrication et I'Exploitation des Avions Raab.

http://www.aviastar.org/manufacturers/1730.html

 

[richard]

Raab left the nazi Germany for Estonia , where he built Kl 1 at the "state aircraft fabric of Tallin" . Later , he founded the AEKKEA , subject of this thread , in Athen

.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEKKEA-RAAB

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,11910.0.html

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Richard.

 

[Apophenia]

Aviastar has confused the Gesellschaft and GmbH endings.

The 1934 Riga firm was the Raab-Flugzeugbau Gesellschaft - which built Grasmücke II; Tigerschwalbe II, III, and IV; and Anbo VI in the mid '30s. Flying Magazine, Feb 1936, pg 144

RAAB Flugzeugbau GmbH was formed in 1959 in Karlsruhe. One plan was to produce a modernized version of the RK 9 Grasmücke. Licences were also bought for Mario de Bernardi's MdB 2 Aeroscooter ultralight and the Ambrosini F.7 Rondone II. But RAAB Flugzeugbau GmbH got into financial trouble.

One RAAB-Ambrosini F.7 was completed (and sold), two more Rondone were structurally complete. One Aeroscooter was built and work was begun on components for another five.

RAAB Flugzeugbau GmbH was re-named German American Aircraft Corporation in 1959 but failed.

Antonius Raab bio - http://regiowiki.hna.de/Antonius_Raab

 

[hesham]

Many thanks to you my dear Apophenia,

and I know this company which formed in 1959,and later change its name to
Rheinische Luftfahrt Industrie (Rheinland).

 

[Apophenia]

Actually, Rheinische Luftfahrtindustrie GmbH was established in 1930. It had been Raab-Katzenstein Flugzeugwerke GmbH (which, itself, had been formed in 1925 at Kassel).