NASA/Lockheed AGB-3 and AGB-7 ag-aircraft projects

[Stargazer]

From The Design Of The Aeroplane, BSP Professional Books, 1993

 

[robunos]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

First thought, they make the Transavia Airtruk look pretty,
second thought, where's Dastardly and Muttley??


cheers,
Robin.

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

Oh wow! That makes the X-32 look graceful.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

These are actually *Lockheed* designs, done under contract to NASA.

 

[AeroFranz]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

Was it Lockheed-Humboldt county? (reference to that region's main illegal agricultural export) ;D

 

[Triton]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

These are actually *Lockheed* designs, done under contract to NASA.

For what purpose?

 

[Orionblamblam]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects



This report contains the results of a study of advanced design requirements
for aerial application aircraft for agriculture, The study was conducted
by the Lockheed-Georgia Company under contract to the Langley Research
Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Dr. B. J.
Holmes was the NASA technical manager.

At the Lockheed-Georgia Canpany, the study was performed under the
cognizance of R. H, Lange, Manager of the Advanced Technology Systems
Department. J. T. Hinely , Jr . , served as study manager with R. Q. Boyles,
Jr., as principal investigator for system design. Piper Aircraft
Corporation and Mississippi State University participated in the program as
subcontractors.


Please to enjoy the Summary, at least as Adobe Acrobat understands it (too lazy to translate it from OCR-gibberish into English):

?he objectives of thc study wrc ko cvaluatc currcP'nt stateof-khc-art for
agricultural aircraft design, with omphaois on dcaign cotlcepts that offkr
ptcn tial for improved prduc tivity y, ccongnica , and safety; identify amas
requiring additional rcsoarch; cvnluatc air.uurt;hincss regulations; and
illustrats grunising dasiqr? ca:tccgtn. '141~ approach v,as ta develop wnveittional
baseline design configumtion~ for onc largc) aircraft and sna mlJ.
aircraft and to evaluate aircralt: ancl nuL~nysitcm tcchnalqy concepts i n canparison
with the baselines. An oyxrationc analysis nloilel was usec3 ta
obtain quantitative lrcasures of: mission prcxluc t i v i ty and econanics far the
design concepts under consideration.

 

[robunos]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

Found on NTRS :-

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790009677_1979009677.pdf

"Advanced System Design Requirements for Large &
Small Fixed-Wing Aerial Application Systems for Agriculture"


cheers,
Robin.

 

[Machdiamond]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

A jet propelled agplane :.
This reminds me the PZL M-15 Belphegor.
--Luc

 

[Stargazer]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

Some of the alternate versions of the AGB-3 project were much more conventional:

 

[Triton]

Re: NASA AGB-3-IFI and AGB-7-TBI ag-aircraft projects

Found on NTRS :-

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790009677_1979009677.pdf

"Advanced System Design Requirements for Large &
Small Fixed-Wing Aerial Application Systems for Agriculture"


cheers,
Robin.

Hinely, J. T., Jr.; Boyles, R. Q., Jr. Lockheed-Georgia January 1979

Abstract

Several candidate aircraft configurations were defined over the range of 1000 to 10,000 pounds payload and evaluated over a broad spectrum of agricultural missions. From these studies, baseline design points were selected at 3200 pounds payload for the small aircraft and 7500 pounds for the large aircraft. The small baseline aircraft utilizes a single turboprop powerplant while the large aircraft utilizes two turboprop powerplants. These configurations were optimized for wing loading, aspect ratio, and power loading to provide the best mission economics in representative missions. Wing loading of 20 lb/sq ft was selected for the small aircraft and 25 lb/sq ft for the large aircraft. Aspect ratio of 8 was selected for both aircraft. It was found that a 10% reduction in engine power from the original configurations provided improved mission economics for both aircraft by reducing the cost of the turboprop. Refined configurations incorporate a 675 HP engine in the small aircraft and two 688 HP engines in the large aircraft.

 

[Tophe]

Reading the AGB-7-TBI, I thought the 2x 688hp are for the engines driving big propellers while the "little propellers" are in fact aiscrews providing electric power 2x 513kW to release the ag-chemicals. All right, but... a further project mentions 2 power sources with 1 little airscrew, and I don't understand anymore ??? Has someone an explanation?
(Anyhow, I am very happy to have discovered the AGB-7-TBI, a so weird twin-boomer, so different... Thanks!) ;D

 

[hesham]

Hi,


http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790019987_1979019987.pdf