FFA AS-202 Bravo
| FFA AS-202 Bravo | |
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| Type: | Trainer aircraft |
| Design country: | |
| Manufacturer: |
SIAI and FFA |
| First flight: |
March 7, 1969 |
| Commissioning: |
1971-1989 |
The FFA AS-202 Bravo is a training aircraft that was jointly produced by the manufacturers SIAI-Marchetti and Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein .
history
The SA 202 Bravo training aircraft project began in 1967 as a joint production between the FFA and the Italian manufacturer SIAI Marchetti. For the planned machine, wind tunnel tests were to be carried out in Switzerland and parts were to be manufactured, while the Italians were to take over the assembly. However, the project did not make good progress because SIAI ran out of capacities. The program was completely taken over by FFA and was henceforth called AS 202 Bravo. The first flight of the FFA prototype took place on March 7, 1969 in Altenrhein , the first prototype built in Italy flew for the first time on May 7, 1969. The first production aircraft had its maiden flight on December 22, 1971. Initially, the aircraft was equipped with a 100-118 hp Avco Lycoming O 235 engine (version AS 202/15). The later version AS 202/18, however, had a 180-hp Avco-Lycoming-AEIO-360 engine, with the majority of the around 210 machines built between 1971 and 1989 being equipped with the more powerful engine and only about 35 with the weaker one .
The planned variants in the 1970s were the AS 202/26 with a 260 hp Textron Lycoming AEIO-540 engine and the Bravo AS 202 / 32T turbine, which was first flown as a prototype in 1992, with a 420 hp Allison 250 -B17C turbine. But they did not find enough buyers to go into series production.
The Turbinen-Bravo is used today as a tow plane from Schänis airfield .
In March 2020, an AS-202 Bravo New Generation flew for the first time as a converted and modernized variant of the AS-202 Bravo, equipped with a glass cockpit, among other things. The conversion of the aircraft took place in Hanover.
construction
The aircraft is a conventionally constructed all - metal low- wing aircraft made of aluminum alloys (partly in a sandwich construction with a honeycomb core ) with a rigid nose landing gear. Depending on the version, it is driven by an Avco Lycoming O 235 or AEIO 360 motor, which drives a two-blade Hartzell variable pitch propeller or, optionally, a three-blade Hoffmann propeller.
use
The aerobatic machine was mainly used by military operators for the basic training of pilots. 40 of them went to Indonesia , 8 to Uganda , 10 to Morocco and almost 50 to Iraq and 10 to Oman . The plane served civilly in various Swiss flight schools, the British flying college and the flight school of Japan Airlines .
Military use
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Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data AS-202/15 | Data AS-202 / 18A-4 |
|---|---|---|
| crew | 2 | |
| Passengers | 1 | |
| length | 7.5 m | |
| span | 9.75 m | |
| height | 2.81 m | |
| Wing area | 13.9 m² | |
| payload | 100 kg or one passenger | |
| Empty mass | 630 kg | 710 kg |
| Max. Takeoff mass | 999 kg utility / 885 kg with trainer use | 1080 kg utility / 1050 kg when used by a trainer |
| Cruising speed | 203 km / h (economical) 210 km / h (maximum) |
205 km / h (economical) 226 km / h (maximum) |
| Top speed | 210 km / h | 240 km / h |
| Service ceiling | 14,000 ft (approx. 4,300 m) | 17,000 ft (approx. 5,200 m) |
| Range (without reserve) | 890 km | 1140 km |
| Engines | a Lycoming O-320 -E2A; 110 kW (approx. 150 PS) | a Textron Lycoming AEIO-360-B1F ; 138 kW (approx. 190 PS) |
See also
literature
- William Green: The Observers Book of Aircraft. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1970, ISBN 0-7232-0087-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Luftfahrt.ch: AS 202 Bravo ( Memento from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ PILOTS - Schänis Airfield. Retrieved September 15, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Jürgen Schelling: First new AS202 Bravo flies . In: Cocpit , March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Modernization of the AS 202 Bravo . In: Fliegermagazin , December 26, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Airliners: FFA AS-202 Bravo