Douglas XC-132
| Douglas XC-132 | |
|---|---|
 Artist's impression |
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| Type: | Transport aircraft / tanker aircraft |
| Design country: | |
| Manufacturer: | |
| First flight: |
Project abandoned in mock-up status |
| Commissioning: |
Project abandoned in mock-up status |
| Production time: |
Project abandoned in mock-up status |
| Number of pieces: |
not built |
The Douglas XC-132 was the project of a transport and tanker aircraft from the former US manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company . It would have been the largest transport aircraft of its time.
history
Since February 1954 Douglas has been developing a very large transport and tanker aircraft for the time on behalf of the USAF . A full-size mock-up was completed in 1955, but the project was halted in 1956 before the two prototypes were built.
construction
The bow of the XC-132 and the attachment of the tail unit should look similar to that of the smaller Douglas C-124 . However, she was a high-wing monoplane , which, unusually in the turboprop engines , swept wings with negative dihedral should have. The rudder and elevator of the Douglas XC-132 should have a shape similar to that of the smaller Douglas C-133 . In the version as a tanker, the Douglas XC-132 should have air refueling tanks at the wing tips.
The combination of high engine power with swept wings thus largely corresponded to the basic concept of the Russian Tupolev Tu-95 and the Tu-114 derived from it , which had their first flights in 1952 and 1957. In the field of military transport aircraft, however, this combination was only realized with the Antonov An-70 , whose first flight took place in 1996.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
|---|---|
| length | 56.90 m |
| span | 56.04 m |
| Wing area | 390 m² |
| Wing extension | 8.1 |
| Engines | 4 × T57 -P-1 with 15,000 WPS each |
| Propeller diameter | 6.10 m |
See also
Literature and main source
- Flying from propellers to jet propulsion, airliners - developments and limits , authorized edition for Kaiser Verlag, Klagenfurt ISBN 3-7043-6030-9 , pp. 38–39
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Cal Taylor: C-133 Development. June 2000, accessed on August 17, 2020 .