IPAI-26 Tuca

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IPAI-26 Tuca
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Type: Light aircraft
Design country:

BrazilBrazil Brazil

Manufacturer:

IPAI, Escola de Engenharia de Sâo Carlos

First flight:

1979

Number of pieces:

1

The IPAI-26 Tuca was a light aircraft produced by the Brazilian manufacturer IPAI, Escola de Engenharia de Sâo Carlos .

history

In the mid-1970s, engineer Dawilson Lucato began developing an inexpensive multi-purpose aircraft that could safely take off and land on unprepared runways. Together with colleagues, students and teachers from the Laboratório de Aeronave , the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Engineering Sciences of São Carlos and around 60 companies, a prototype was built to test the possibilities for series production.

construction

The aircraft was designed as a shoulder-wing wing with a conventional T-tail unit and fixed nose wheel landing gear. The fuselage consisted of welded steel tubes and was clad with composite materials, the braced wings were made of wood. The cabin, which you entered through side doors, had three seats, the third seat could be removed to load cargo. The machine was powered by a Lycoming-O-235 -C-1-4-stroke boxer engine with 80 kW.

variant

  • IPAI-30 - designation of the planned series version, the newly developed wings of which would have had a supercritical profile and integrated flaps.

Technical specifications

Parameter Data
crew 1
Passengers 2
length 6.82 m
span 11 m
height ? m
Wing area 16.99 m²
Empty mass ? kg
Max. Takeoff mass 700 kg
Cruising speed 185 km / h
Top speed 190 km / h
Service ceiling 3600 m
Range 4 hours
Engines 1 × Lycoming-O-235 -C-1-4-stroke-4-cylinder boxer engine with 80 kW

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ aviastar.org (English), accessed on March 15, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Roberto Pereira: Enciclopédia de Aviões Brasileiros , 1997, pp. 200 ff., ISBN 85-250-2137-7
  3. ↑ Taylor, JWR: Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1981-82 , 1981, p. 18, ISBN 978-0-7106-0729-4