Bach Super Transport

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Super Transport
Bach Super Transport 3-view Aero Digest September 1928.jpg
Bach Super Transport 3-view drawing from Aero Digest September 1928
Role Airliner
National origin United States
Manufacturer Bach Aircraft
Designer
Status Concept only
Developed from Bach Air Yacht

The Bach "Super Transport" was a design for a four-engined transport aircraft that was never built.[1]

Design and development[]

The Bach Aircraft Company was founded by in the early 1940s.[2] Following in the footsteps of Fokker with the Fokker F.VII Trimotor, and the metal Ford Trimotor, the Bach Air Yacht was developed as a commercial trimotor transport.[3] In 1928, Bach filed a patent for a four-engined design. The aircraft was similar to the trimotor as a metal-covered, strut-braced biplane, with conventional landing gear. It also featured semi-circular windows like the Stout 2-AT Pullman. The aircraft design featured an unusual modification of the trimotor arrangement with two nose-mounted engines stacked above each other with cockpit windows between them. The fuselage carried a double-decker seating arrangement. The Bach company was reorganized and dissolved during the Great Depression without any examples built.[1]

Specifications (Super Transport estimated)[]

Data from Patent 79061,[1] Aerofiles Ba to Bl[4]

General characteristics

  • Crew: 2
  • Capacity: 23 cabin crew and passengers
  • Wingspan: 85 ft (26 m)
  • Powerplant: 4 × Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, 410 hp (310 kW) each
  • Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch propellers

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 132 kn (152 mph, 245 km/h)
  • Cruise speed: 100 kn (120 mph, 190 km/h)
  • Range: 700 nmi (800 mi, 1,300 km)

See also[]

Related development

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "U.S. Patent 79061 for Super Transport". Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  2. ^ "L. Morton Bach". Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  3. ^ "The Bach Air Yacht". Flight. 9 August 1928.
  4. ^ Eckland, K.O. (3 November 2009). "Aerofiles Ba to Bl". Retrieved 15 November 2018.
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