Photographs, detail sketches and description of all metal " plussed up" Aerovan with double payload and three times power; Merchantman is divisible into two fundamental units: wing carrying engines, which with tail boom and empennage form "flight" unit, and, hung from this, fuselage in shape of large volume container which forms "utilitarian" unit; all-up weight 13, 000 lb; useful capacity 780 cu ft for 5000 lb of freight; powered by four de Havilland Gipsy Queen 30 engines of 250 hp each; span 65 ft; length 42 ft 9 in.; height 14 ft.


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    Title :

    Miles Merchantman


    Additional title:

    Flight


    Published in:

    Flight ; 52 , n 2018


    Publication date :

    1947


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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