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 95 hp maximum for 5 minutes, 80 hp continuous.
 * As 8B:A more powerful variant developing 135 hp maximum for 5 minutes, 115 hp continuous.
 * As 8R:A variant produced for sport aircraft, particularly for competition use, developing 150 hp for take-off. Featuring:
 * Increased compression ratio, from 5.36 to 5.8
 * Improved cooling by increasing the numbers of cooling fins at the cylinder head and the cylinder body
 * Increasing the heat dispersing area of the pistons
 * Improved crankcase and oil cooling
 * Improved cylinder charging
 * Modified valve timing

Applications

 * Albatros L 100
 * Albatros Al 101
 * Arado L II (As 8A)
 * Arado L IIa (As 8R)
 * Baumgärtl Heliofly III
 * BFW M.23
 * BFW M.27
 * BFW M.29
 * BFW M.35
 * Blohm & Voss Ha 136
 * Comte AC-12 Moskito
 * Darmstadt D-22
 * DFS 40
 * Focke-Wulf Fw 44
 * Heinkel He 64
 * Heinkel He 72
 * Klemm L 25E
 * Klemm Kl 32
 * Raab-Katzenstein RK.25/32
 * Ruhrtaler Ru.3