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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.
[edit] 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. Although evaluated by the British Army, neither civil nor military orders ensued, and no examples were constructed beyond the single prototype
[edit] Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: one pilot
- Capacity: 3 passengers, or freight, or litters
- Length: 37 ft 0 in (11.28 m)
- Wingspan: 24 ft 8 in (7.52 m)
- Height: 8 ft 5 in (2.55 m)
- Empty weight: 1,730 lb (785 kg)
- Gross weight: 2,700 lb (823 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier 702 inverted inline engine, 180 hp (134 kW) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 121 mph (195 km/h)
- Range: 280 miles (450 km)
- Rate of climb: 670 ft/min (3.4 m/s)
[edit] References
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions, 85.
- World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing, File 889 Sheet 84.
- Simpson, R. W. (1995). Airlife's General Aviation. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 38,42.
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