Specialist machine for top dressing; reasons for its configuration based on operating conditions peculiar to aerial fertilizing of pastureland in New Zealand; in wing center section are accommodated fuel tank, spray tanks, and hopper installation; power provided by modified Continental horizontally opposed 6-cyl engine, driving McCauley "Met-L-Prop" fixed pitch propeller; span 42 ft; length 27 ft 6 in.; basic weight 1690 lb; agricultural overload 3840 lb.


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    Title :

    Auster B.8 Agricola


    Additional title:

    Flight


    Published in:

    Flight ; 69 , n 2451


    Publication date :

    1956


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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