First up IMPA is licence building Spartan B-1 bombers. 96 are to be built for the Air Force and Navy.
FMA has a new light bomber, this is a real world design just 1 year early with no changes.
FMA M.B.2
Dimensions: span 17.2m; length 10.90; height 2.8m; wing area 35 sq m; wing loading 100kg/ sq m; power loading 5.14kg/hp
Structure: steel-tube fuselage truss with light alloy forward fuselage covering and fabric aft, light alloy used for tail construction and tailplane covering. Metal wing with steel spars, all-metal split flaps and wooden ailerons with fabric covering. Rudder and elevators aluminium framed with fabric covering. Fixed main undercarriage in spats with a non-retractable castoring tail wheel
Weights: empty 2120kg, maximum take-off 3500kg
Powerplant: one 715hp Wright SGR-1820-F3 radial
Performance: max speed 177mph; service ceiling 19865ft, time to 5000m (16,400ft) 37 minutes; range 372 miles
Capacity: pilot in enclosed cockpit forward, navigator/bomb aimer behind in fuselage, radio operator/gunner in rear fuselage.
Armament: one dorsal turret with one 7.7mm Browning MG, one ventral mount with one 7.7mm Browning but capable of mounting a 13mm Browning as an alternative for strafing, bombload 400kg (880lbs) in one lower fuselage and two inner wing bays
Equipment: full controls and navigation equipment including receiver/transmitter, HF/DF set and Sperry autopilot, camera can be fitted in cabin floor, one flare chute, simple mechanical bombsight
Another Argentine firm Tucan will build this light bomber to repalce the Audax. Available for export too.
Aircraft Type or Name:
Tucan T-17
General Type:
Airplane = 1
Airship = 2
Orbiter = 3
1
Year of First Flight: 1934
Description
Conventional Aircraft
Monoplane
Conventional Fuselage
A light basic monoplane support bomber. Armament two fixed wing-mounted 7.62mm MG, one dorsal 7.62mm MG and 150kg (330lbs) bombload. Crew protected by 5mm armoured 'bathtub'.
Characteristics:
Weight (maximum) 5,000 lbs
Weight (empty) 3,327 lbs
Length 28.21 ft
Wingspan 40 ft
Wing Area 256 sq ft
Sweep 1 degrees
Engines 1
RR-9-1
Piston
650 hp
Crew 2
Typical cost $0.011 million in 1934
Total number procured 500
Performance:
Top Speed 180 kts = 207 mph
at 15,000 ft
Mach N/A
Operational Ceiling 25,500 ft
Range 269 nm = 310 miles
with 920 lbs payload
944 lbs released at halfway point
Climb 1,411 fpm
Cruise 120 kts = 138 mph
at 10,000 ft
Corner Speed 145 KIAS =
168 kts at 10,000 ft
Mach N/A
Turning Rate 23.7 deg/sec
Radius 1,372 ft
Internal Data:
Intake / Fan Diameter 8 ft
Bypass Ratio 105.3
Engine Weight 790 lbs
Overall Efficiency 22.5 percent
Structural Factor 0.90
Number of Wings 1
Number of Fuselages 1
Limiting Airspeed 200 kts
Wing Ultimate g Load 6.00 g
Wing Taper 0.1
Wing Thickness at Root 2 ft
Tail / Canard Factor 0.4
Number of Nacelles 0
Length 0 ft
Diameter 0 ft
Fullness 0
Fuselage Diameter 2 ft
Fuselage Fullness 0.4
Pressurized Volume 0 percent
Cargo Decks 1
Cleanness 55 percent
Unstreamlined section 2.1 sq ft
User equipment 673 lbs