Tugan Gannet

Tugan LJW7 Gannet
Type:	Airliner
Design country:	Australia
Manufacturer:	Tugan Aircraft
First flight:	1935
Number of pieces:	8th

The Tugan Gannet later after its designer Lawrence Wackett as Wackett Gannet called, was a commercial airliner of the Australian manufacturer Tugan Aircraft .

History and construction

The gannet was a small twin-engine airliner from the 1930s. It was not only the first Australian aircraft to go into series production, but also the first Australian aircraft to be used by the Royal Australian Air Force . The gannet was a braced braced high-wing aircraft of conventional design with two engines mounted in gondolas on the wings. The tail wheel landing gear was not retractable. The wings consisted of a plywood construction and were covered with fabric. The hull was made of welded steel tubes and was also covered with fabric. The prototype flew for the first time in 1935. During flight tests, it was destroyed in a crash, killing the pilot and passengers, but serial production began anyway.

The aircraft were used by Butler Air Transport between Sydney and Broken Hill and at least one flew for Ansett Airways in 1943. The machines used by the RAAF were used as survey aircraft between 1935 and 1942 and then converted to ambulance aircraft. The last RAAF gannets were scrapped in 1946.

Military use

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Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
crew	1
Passengers	6th
length	10.51 m
span	15.85 m
height	3.50 m
Wing area	? m²
Empty mass	1470 kg
Max. Takeoff mass	2449 kg
Cruising speed	? km / h
Top speed	240 km / h
Service ceiling	1700 m
Range	885 km
Engines	2 × 6-cylinder in-line engines de Havilland Gipsy Six with 150 kW each

literature

Technology in Australia 1788-1988. Australian Science and Technology Heritage Center, Parkville 1988, ISBN 0-908029-49-7 .
David Wilson: The Brotherhood of Airmen. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2006, ISBN 1-74114-333-0 .

Web links

http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2007/oct07/story-2.pdf , Christobel Mattingley: Not Without Adversity. National Library of Australia News, 2007, pp. 8-11, accessed May 20, 2013

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Watkins 1961, p. 600.
^ ^A ^b Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 1988, p. 498.
^ Mattingley 2007, p. 10.
↑ Gerhardt 1961, p. 678.
^ Wilson 2006, p. 41.
↑ ^a ^b A14 Wackett Gannet

[Watkins-1] Watkins 1961, p. 600.

[AATSE-2] A ^b Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 1988, p. 498.

[3] Mattingley 2007, p. 10.

[4] Gerhardt 1961, p. 678.

[5] Wilson 2006, p. 41.

[A14-6] A14 Wackett Gannet