English name: Hawk
TYPE: Two-seat lightplane.
PROGRAMME: Announced 2000; mockup displayed statically at MAKS 2001 at Moscow. Prototype was to be built in 2002, but nothing further has been reported.
DESIGN FEATURES: Powered, V-strut-braced wing with boom-mounted cruciform empennage and underslung fuselage pod. Intended for training, sport flying, aerial photography/surveillance and crop-spraying.
FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual; two-segment Fowler-type occupy some two-thirds of each wing.
STRUCTURE: Triangular section welded steel truss fuselage with rectangular section light alloy tailboom; light alloy two-spar tailplane and fin, metal skinned, with Stits fabric covering on rudder and elevators.
LANDING GEAR: Tricycle type; fixed. Single wheel on each main unit, twin nosewheels. Mainwheel size 500x150, nosewheel size 310x135. Semi-lever type suspension on main units; castoring nosewheel.
POWER PLANT: One 104.4 kW (140 hp) Walter M-332 inline four mounted at junction of wing/tailboom. Fuel contained in a single tank aft of cockpit bulkhead.
ACCOMMODATION: Two persons, side by side in streamlined enclosed cockpit pod with large windscreen and jettisonable transparent door on each side. Cargo compartment, capacity 200 kg (441 lb) aft of cockpit, with upward-hinged access door.
DIMENSIONS, EXTERNAL:
- Wing span: 11.00 m (36 ft 1 in)
- Length overall: 6.70 m (21 ft 11¾ in)
WEIGHTS AND LOADINGS:
- Weight empty: 540 kg (1,190 lb)
- Max fuel weight: 70 kg (154 lb)
- Max T-O weight: 750 kg (1,653 lb)
- Max power loading: 7.19 kg/kW (11.81 lb/hp)
PERFORMANCE:
- Cruising speed: 81 kt (150 km/h; 93 mph)
- T-O run: 60 m (200 ft)
- T-O to 15 m (50 ft): 150 m (495 ft)
- Landing from 15 m (50 ft): 290 m (955 ft)
- Landing run: 50 m (165 ft)
- Max range: 486 n miles (900 km; 559 miles)
The article appears in the following publication:
Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2004-2005. Jane's Information Group Ltd. 2004. ISBN: 0-7106-2614-2
