Engineering:MAC Mamba
| Mamba | |
|---|---|
| Role | Two-seat light cabin monoplane |
| National origin | Australia |
| Manufacturer | Melbourne Aircraft Corporation (Mamba Aircraft Company) Australian Aircraft Industries |
| Designer | Jess Smith[1]
Stress Engineer Merv Reed |
| First flight | 25 January 1989 |
| Status | development continuing |
| Number built | 4 |
| Developed into | civil and military |
The MAC Mamba, Mamba Range is an Australian two-seat light aircraft designed and built by the Melbourne Aircraft Corporation.[2]
Design and development
The Mamba is a strut-braced, high-wing monoplane designed over two years and first flown on 25 January 1989. It has fixed tricycle landing gear and is powered by a 116 hp (87 kW) Lycoming O-235 flat-four piston engine. It has an enclosed glazed cabin with side-by-side configuration seating for two. The fuselage is constructed of welded steel tubing with stressed aluminum skin.[1] It was intended to introduce four-seat and military versions of the Mamba.[2]
The military version was built under contract by Australian Aircraft Industries as the AA-2S Mamba powered by an IO-360.[citation needed]
Variants
- AA-2
- Lycoming O-235-powered prototype built by Melbourne Aircraft Corporation
- AA-2M
- Lycoming IO-360-powered military variant built by Australian Aircraft Industries
- AA-2S
- Lycoming IO-360-powered civilian under test by Mamba Aircraft Company
- AA-4S
- Lycoming O-320 four-place under development by Mamba Aircraft Company
Specifications (Prototype)
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90[2]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Capacity: one
- Length: 7.00 m (22 ft 11.5 in)
- Wingspan: 8.68 m (28 ft 5.75 in)
- Height: 2.38 m (7 ft 9.75 in)
- Wing area: 10.13 m2 (109.04 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 390 kg (860 lb)
- Gross weight: 680 kg (1,499 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-235-N2C flat-four piston engine , 86 kW (116 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 250 km/h (155 mph, 135 kn)
- Endurance: 5 hours 42 minutes
- Rate of climb: 7.6 m/s (1,500 ft/min)
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
References
Notes
Bibliography
- Taylor, John W.R., ed (1989). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90. London, United Kingdom: Jane's Yearbooks. ISBN 0-7106-0896-9.
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