Engineering:Breda Ba.32
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| Ba.32 | |
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| The sole Ba.32 prototype | |
| Role | Airliner |
| Manufacturer | Breda |
| First flight | 1931[1] |
| Number built | 2?(second, with FIAT engines, may have been a conversion)[1] |
The Breda Ba.32 was an Italian airliner prototype designed and built by the Breda company.[1]
Design and development
The Breda Ba.32 was a low-wing trimotor monoplane with fixed, spatted main landing gear. It was powered by three Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engines. It had a crew of two, and its cabin could accommodate up to 10 passengers.[1]
The Ba.32 prototype first flew in 1931, but despite displaying good flight characteristics, no production orders ensued and no further examples were built.[1]
Operators
Kingdom of Italy
Specifications (Ba.32)
Data from Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930–1945 [1]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Capacity: 8–11
- Length: 16.749 m (54 ft 11.4 in)
- Wingspan: 26.67 m (87 ft 6 in)
- Height: 4.153 m (13 ft 7.5 in)
- Wing area: 84.97 m2 (914.6 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 3,792 kg (8,360 lb)
- Gross weight: 6,441 kg (14,200 lb)
- Powerplant: 3 × Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior 9-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engine, 240 kW (320 hp) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 237 km/h (147 mph, 128 kn)
- Cruise speed: 211 km/h (131 mph, 114 kn)
- Stall speed: 93 km/h (58 mph, 50 kn)
- Range: 1,350 km (840 mi, 730 nmi)
- Endurance: 8hrs
- Service ceiling: 5,300 m (17,400 ft)
- Rate of climb: 1.6 m/s (310 ft/min)
- Time to altitude: 16,400 in 52 minutes
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
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