Multi-purpose STOL transports

[357Mag]

A couple of designs from JP4 magazine

Air Metal AM-C 111 (Germany). First flight was scheduled for 1977. Estimated production: 500 aircraft from 1977 to 1986. Turkey and Malaisya were very interested in the project.

Versions: Passenger (24 seats) , VIP (13 seats), Cargo (up to 3000 kg), Medevac, military transport, photoplanimetric, navigation trainer and geophysic research

Powerplant: UACL PT6A-45

SAAB MULAS Transporter.

Versions: Passenger (19 seats), Cargo (up to 2000 kg), Medevac, SAR, geophysic research
, agricutural and firebomber.

Powerplant: Continental TIARA T6-320 (4 engined version) or UACL PT6A-41 (twin engined version)


SAAB considered that CASA 212 was no rival for its design so it had a bright future.

All -

Here’s another….. the Bromon BR-2000 twin turboprop transport.

Once saw a drawing for a notional “ BR-4000 “ aircraft, the design being suggested as a potential Special Ops transport. The article said the proposed engines were Lycoming
IO-720s, which would have placed each engines power in the 400 - 475hp zone.


With regards,
357Mag

 

[357Mag]

All -

Forgot to mention….

The BR-4000 was a notional 4-engine design ( IO-720’s ).

With regards,
357Mag

 

[Owens Z]

As he mentioned in post #1057 of 'Some Future Titles of Interest...', Secret Projects Forum contributor John Hayles has a forthcoming book about a well-known high-wing, twin-turboprop STOL utility transport, the stubby Short SC.7 Skyvan, of which some remain in service today. Looks like a good book.

 

[EagleO]

I've found an article about the Ahrens project


http://laahs.com/the-ahrens-ar-404/

I used to work for Peter Ahrens and his Scandinavian Aircraft Construction AB in Malmø-Sturup airport in Sweden in the 80's, designing/creating practical solutions on a 1:1 scale mockup of the KM-180.
The mockup consisted of the nose, cockpit and about a foot of the cabin.
A lot of english aircraft fitters hired help built the prototype.
I left the Company one week before it suddenly was closed down.

 

[hesham]

Within the "harvest" of my visit to the States Library :
The Wagner W-18, designed around 1963, with the maiden
flight expected for 1965, was intended as a DC-3 replacement.
A new kind of boundary layer control was envisaged, with span-
wise ducts in the very small high-aspect-ratio wings. These
ducts would have been fed with air from an APU in the tail and
fuel should be burned in it, to accelerate the airflow.

Drawing from Flight International, May 1964

From Interavia 1964/3

 

[hesham]

I've found an article about the Ahrens project


http://laahs.com/the-ahrens-ar-404/

https://web.archive.org/web/20210318032605/https://www.laahs.com/the-ahrens-ar-404/

 

[hesham]

Also from this book.

 

[VictorXL188]

Thank you my dear Jemiba,

about this Piaggio project,but I think there was a misprint ,that
is because the Piaggio P.180 was appeared in 1983,and I think
they meant RP.169,the Piaggio did't reach that number in 1972.

There is a reference in the Italian NBMR.4 thread which mentions a Piaggio RP.180 competing aginst the Fiat G.222, and that was in the early 1960s so to reach 196 would not be that much of a stretch.

 

[hesham]

There is a reference in the Italian NBMR.4 thread which mentions a Piaggio RP.180 competing aginst the Fiat G.222, and that was in the early 1960s so to reach 196 would not be that much of a stretch.

My dear Victore,

please,from where you got this designation,RP.180 ?.

 

[VictorXL188]

Also from this book.

That book was basically comprised of the A-Z section of a publication called World Aircraft Information Files (WAIF), published by my old company Aerospace Publishing. When Aerospace Publishing was resurrected in the mid 2000s, following a flood, WAIF was converted into new editions for Romania, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Poland and Russia. Only the last two made it beyond the six test issues. In the case of Poland that was to issue 120, whilst the Russian edition outlasted any other publication going to somewhere in the region of 320.

 

[VictorXL188]

My dear Victore,

please,from where you got tis designation,RP.180 ?.

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/nbmr-4-requirement-the-other-italian-contenders.3478/#3
The actual quote from the document states:
'The G.222 was competing with a new design, the Piaggio RP.180, for an Italian air force C-119 replacement contract, but was also being offered for ASW duties.'

 

[Apophenia]

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/nbmr-4-requirement-the-other-italian-contenders.3478/#3
The actual quote from the document states:
'The G.222 was competing with a new design, the Piaggio RP.180, for an Italian air force C-119 replacement contract, but was also being offered for ASW duties.'

That exact quote is also used in Global Security's page on the G.222 (specifically in the Fiat G.222 Cervino - Early Design Work section). Unfortunately, no references are given.

-- https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/g-222.htm

 

[hesham]

From Interavia 1964/3

From JAWA 1964-1965,

the Wagner W-18.

 

[hesham]

Partenavia PD 90 Tapete Air TRuck

Source: Flug Revue 10/1993

From JAWA 1993-94

 

[hesham]

Hi,

Unfortunately from few days,the book on google offered the Air Metal
AM-Z102T aircraft drawing which I spoke about it before in this topic,also
the book mention the Air Metal AM-B 111 variant with drawing,that is no
longer offer,but the book on google still offer the Universal Mini Carrier
UMC-120 STOL transport aircraft.

http://books.google.com/books?id=iE...CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=hfb-320 hfb-330&f=true

From Technika Lotnicza 1971,

Four versions are planned: the passenger UMC-120P, the cargo UMC-120C,
the parachute UMC-120F, and the ambulance UMC-120A.