Auster B.4

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name=B.4


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type=Light freighter
manufacturer=Auster
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first flight=7 September 1951
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number built=1
variants with their own articles=The Auster B.4 was an unusual British development of the Auster family of light aircraft in an attempt to create a light cargo aircraft.

Design

The conventional fuselage was considerably redesigned, turning it into a pod-and-boom configuration carrying the tail unit on a high boom. The rear of the fuselage pod was equipped with clamshell doors for easy loading and unloading, and a quadricycle undercarriage was fitted, retaining the mainwheels from earlier Auster designs, but adding a tailwheel to each side of the fuselage pod. The fuselage floor had fittings for seats, cargo tie-downs, or litters for the air ambulance role. Although evaluated by the British Army, neither civil nor military orders ensued, and no examples were constructed beyond the single prototype

pecifications

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crew=one pilot
capacity=3 passengers, or freight, or litters
length m=11.28
length ft=37
length in=0
span m=7.52
span ft=24
span in=8

height m=2.55
height ft=8
height in=5
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empty weight kg=785
empty weight lb=1,730
gross weight kg=823
gross weight lb=2,700

eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier 702 inverted inline engine
eng1 kw= 134
eng1 hp= 180

max speed kmh=195
max speed mph=121
range km=450
range miles=280

climb rate ms=3.4
climb rate ftmin=670

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