Version of PB4Y-2 Privateer, new RY-3 is designed to do triple duty as passenger-ambulance-cargo plane for U S Navy and RAF; it features single rudder and modified Davis wing, also incorporates special hot air heating system for warming cabin and preventing ice formation; span 110 ft; height 29 ft; length 75 ft 5 in.; gross weight 60,000 lb; powered by four 1350-hp Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp engines.


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    Title :

    Convair produces RY-3 military transport


    Additional title:

    Aviation


    Published in:

    Aviation ; 44 , n 5


    Publication date :

    1945


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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