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Ba.32
The sole Ba.32
prototype
Role
Airliner Type of aircraft
Manufacturer
Breda
First flight
1931
[1]
Number built
2?(second, with FIAT engines, may have been a conversion)
[1]
The Breda Ba.32 was an Italian
airliner
prototype designed and built by the
Breda company.
[1]
Design and development
The Breda Ba.32 was a low-wing
trimotor
monoplane with fixed, spatted main landing gear. It was powered by three
Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior nine-cylinder air-cooled
radial engines . It had a crew of two, and its cabin could accommodate up to 10 passengers.
[1]
The Ba.32 prototype first flew in 1931, but despite displaying good flight characteristics, no production orders ensued and no further examples were built.
[1]
Operators
Kingdom of Italy
Specifications (Ba.32)
Breda Ba.32 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile March 1932
Data from Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930–1945
[1]
General characteristics
Crew: 2
Capacity: 8–11
Length: 16.749 m (54 ft 11.4 in)
Wingspan: 26.67 m (87 ft 6 in)
Height: 4.153 m (13 ft 7.5 in)
Wing area: 84.97 m2 (914.6 sq ft)
Empty weight: 3,792 kg (8,360 lb)
Gross weight: 6,441 kg (14,200 lb)
Powerplant: 3 ×
Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior 9-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engine, 240 kW (320 hp) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 237 km/h (147 mph, 128 kn)
Cruise speed: 211 km/h (131 mph, 114 kn)
Stall speed: 93 km/h (58 mph, 50 kn)
Range: 1,350 km (840 mi, 730 nmi)
Endurance: 8hrs
Service ceiling: 5,300 m (17,400 ft)
Rate of climb: 1.6 m/s (310 ft/min)
Time to altitude: 16,400 in 52 minutes
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
Notes
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f Thompson, Jonathan W. (1963). Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930–1945 . USA: Aero Publishers Inc.
ISBN
0-8168-6500-0 .
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