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MAC Mamba

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Top speed
  
250 km/h

Length
  
7 m

Wingspan
  
8.68 m

Manufacturers
  
Melbourne Aircraft Corporation, Australian Aircraft Industries

The MAC Mamba, Mamba Range is an Australian two-seat light aircraft designed and built by the Melbourne Aircraft Corporation.

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Design and development

The Mamba is a strut-braced, high-wing monoplane designed over two years and first flown on 25 January 1989. It has fixed tricycle landing gear and is powered by a 116 hp (87 kW) Lycoming O-235 flat-four piston engine. It has an enclosed glazed cabin with side-by-side configuration seating for two. The fuselage is constructed of welded steel tubing with stressed aluminum skin. It was intended to introduce four-seat and military versions of the Mamba.

The military version was built under contract by Australian Aircraft Industries as the AA-2S Mamba powered by a IO-360.

Variants

AA-2
Lycoming O-235-powered prototype built by Melbourne Aircraft Corporation
AA-2M
Lycoming IO-360-powered military variant built by Australian Aircraft Industries
AA-2S
Lycoming IO-360-powered civilian under test by Mamba Aircraft Company
AA-4S
Lycoming O-320 four-place under development by Mamba Aircraft Company

Specifications (Prototype)

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90

General characteristics

  • Crew: one
  • Capacity: one
  • Length: 7.00 m (22 ft 11½ in)
  • Wingspan: 8.68 m (28 ft 5¾ in)
  • Height: 2.38 m (7 ft 9¾ in)
  • Wing area: 10.13 m2 (109.04 ft2)
  • Empty weight: 390 kg (860 lb)
  • Gross weight: 680 kg (1499 AA-2 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-235-N2C flat-four piston engine, 86 kW (116 hp)

    • Performance

  • Maximum speed: 250 km/h (155 mph)
  • Endurance: 5 hours  42 min

    • References

    MAC Mamba Wikipedia
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