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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

Quoted

Another Argentine firm Tucan will build this light bomber to repalce the Audax. Available for export too.

I noticed that Hood has not received a 'user title' yet. I propose "Ugly Aircraft, Inc.".



Is the T-17 drawing based on a PZL design?

How about "Wesworld Sky marshal".

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Originally posted by Swamphen
I noticed that Hood has not received a 'user title' yet. I propose "Ugly Aircraft, Inc.".

Har har... That one´s good - and now in use!

That's great guys! I'll keep em coming.

The Tucan is in fact a Zlin crop duster and I thought it would make a good bomber with a dorsal gunners position and bombs instead of chemicals.

I'm not sure Hood should have gotten that title, not after some of the abominations ShinRa's come up with.....

The T-17 does work well, I figured it was originally something from Eastern Europe based on the engine (cowl shutters).

Quoted

I'm not sure Hood should have gotten that title, not after some of the abominations ShinRa's come up with.....

The jury is still out on whether or not those are actually aircraft; to be such, they would have to actually fly, as opposed to being repelled by the ground from sheer ugliness.

There's a knack to flying. The trick is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
I'm not sure Hood should have gotten that title, not after some of the abominations ShinRa's come up with.....

...I want something snazzy like "..Science from Outer Space!" or "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Halifax?". o.O

iunno, I'll have to think on it.

How about "Sephiroth Meat Chunk Seller" or something like that.

<< How'd you find that? Any of our non-broadband members might not like the lag that'll cause, too.

You posted it a while back during the treaty talks. I ran across it yesterday when I was looking for Canada's signature legality business.