Bach Super Transport
| Super Transport | |
|---|---|
| |
| Bach Super Transport 3-view drawing from Aero Digest September 1928 | |
| Role | Airliner |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Bach Aircraft |
| Designer | L. Morton Bach |
| 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[edit]
The Bach Aircraft Company was founded by L. Morton Bach in 1927.[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)[edit]
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[edit]
Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "U.S. Patent 79061 for Super Transport". Retrieved 16 October 2013.
- ^ "L. Morton Bach". Retrieved 16 October 2013.
- ^ "The Bach Air Yacht". Flight. 9 August 1928.
- ^ Eckland, K.O. (3 November 2009). "Aerofiles Ba to Bl". Retrieved 15 November 2018.