Auster B.4
Template:DMCA Template:DMCA Template:Infobox aircraft The Auster B.4 was an unusual British development of the Auster family of light aircraft in an attempt to create a light cargo aircraft.
Design
The conventional fuselage was considerably redesigned, turning it into a pod-and-boom configuration carrying the tail unit on a high boom. The rear of the fuselage pod was equipped with clamshell doors for easy loading and unloading, and a quadricycle undercarriage was fitted, retaining the mainwheels from earlier Auster designs, but adding a tailwheel to each side of the fuselage pod. The fuselage floor had fittings for seats, cargo tie-downs, or litters for the air ambulance role.
Operational history
The prototype was exhibited at the Farnborough Air Show in September 1953.
Although evaluated by the British Army in military markings, neither civil nor military orders ensued, and no examples were constructed beyond the single prototype
Specifications
Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1955–56[1]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1 pilot
- Capacity:
- 3 passengers or
- 2 stretchers and attendant or
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- Fuel capacity: 23 imp gal (28 US gal; 100 L)Template:Aircraft specs/convertTemplate:Aircraft specs/engTemplate:Aircraft specs/engTemplate:Aircraft specs/engTemplate:Aircraft specs/lengthTemplate:Aircraft specs/convertTemplate:Aircraft specs/length
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- Takeoff distance to 50 ft (15 m): 1,245 ft (379 m)
- Landing distance from 50 ft (15 m): 765 ft (233 m)
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
References
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- ^ Bridgman 1955, p. 50.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bridgman, Leonard (1955). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1955–56. New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Simpson, R. W. (1995). Airlife's General Aviation. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing. pp. 38, 42.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 85.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing. pp. File 889 Sheet 84.
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