Top speed 150 km/h Length 5.12 m Manufacturer Partenavia | Wingspan 8.28 m First flight April 2, 1951 Designer Mario de Bernardi | |
The Partenavia P.53 Aeroscooter was a 1950s Italian single-seat light aircraft fitted with a two-bladed rotor. It was designed by Mario de Bernardi and built by Partenavia.
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Design and development
The Aeroscooter was low-wing monoplane powered by a 22 hp (16 kW) Ambrosini P-25 piston engine in the nose. It had a fixed nose-wheel landing gear. Above the enclosed single-seat cockpit a pylon was to have been fitted with an autorotating, unpowered two-bladed rotor which was to reduce the stalling speed and the rate-of-descent if the engine failed.
Only one Aeroscooter was built and it first flew on 2 April 1951 without the rotor fitted. The Aeroscooter survives and is on display at the Museo Storico Dell Aeronautico Militare Italiana. A two-seat derivative was produced by Mario de Baernardi as the de Bernardi M.d.B. 02 Aeroscooter.
Variants
Specifications (Ambrosini engine, no rotor)
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1957–58
General characteristics
Performance