Potez 840
В начале 1960-х годов компания "Potez" разработала административный самолет-низкоплан с четырьмя ТВД.
Первый прототип Potez 840, F-WJSH, выполнил первый полет 29 апреля 1961 года. Силовая установка включала четыре ТВД Turbomeca Astazou II мощностью по 440 л. с. (328 кВт). Самолет с экипажем из трех человек мог перевозить до 18 пассажиров.
Второй прототип P840.02 с ТВД Astazou XII мощностью по 600 л. с. совершил первый полет в июне 1962 года.
После рекламного турне по Северной Америке планировалось построить серию из 25 Potez 840 для компании "Turbo Flight Inc." из Чикаго, но реально построили всего еще два прототипа, один из которых использовался для статических испытаний на прочность.
Следом были собраны два Potez 841 с ТВД Pratt & Whitney Aircraft of Canada PT6A-6 мощностью по 560 л. с.
В 1965 году появился улучшенный вариант Potez 842 с ТВД Astazou XII, еще один Potez 842 с ТВД Astazou XII построили через два года.
Размах крыла Potez 840 составлял 19,33 м, максимальная взлетная масса - 7800 кг, максимальная скорость - 540 км/ч.
Вполне адекватная машина свою нишу на избалованном предложениями рынке найти не смогла даже невзирая на повышенную, благодаря четырем двигателям, безопасность полетов, в то время как большинство конкурентов являлись двухдвигательными.
К настоящему времени уцелел только один из Potez 840, самолет находится в коллекции авиамузея в Париже.
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Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
Регистрационный номер: F-WJSH [7] Also in the executive park at the 1961 Paris show was the 840 prototype, by now painted in an understated but stylish bare-metal, blue and white scheme, with the Potez emblem on the forward fuselage. The company was keen to promote the 840 as ideal for internal services linking provincial centres with major international airlines.
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Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
Регистрационный номер: F-BNAN The first of the two Potez 842s built with uprated Astazou XII engines, F-BNAN, which went on to serve with French training organisation SFA during 1966-76, after which it was acquired by the Musee de l'Air at Le Bourget, where it still resides.
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Aviation Historian 9
Регистрационный номер: F-BMCY Potez 840 F-BMCY, complete with bent inner propeller blades, at Sumburg.
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Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
Регистрационный номер: F-WJSH [7] The first Potez 840 prototype, F-WJSH, in bare metal before flight vibration tests at the Potez-Air Fouga factory at Toulouse-Blagnac in 1961. The 840 was designed by Robert Castello, who had worked with Pierre Mauboussin on pre- and post-war Fouga designs since the mid-1980s, having joined the company from Dewoitine.
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v5
Регистрационный номер: F-WJSH [7] Potez 842 prototype.
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Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
Регистрационный номер: F-WJSH [7] Another of Jean Dieuzaide’s atmospheric promotional photographs of the first prototype Potez 840. The company had bet the farm on the graceful transport, but in the crowded civil aircraft market of the 1960s orders were not forthcoming and the remnants of Potez were absorbed into Sud Aviation in 1967.
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Мировая Авиация 218
Регистрационный номер: F-WJSH [7] Четырехдвигательный Potez 840 стал неудачной попыткой разработки корпоративного самолета. Это была последняя машина марки Potez.
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1964 / 01 - Aircraft
Регистрационный номер: F-WJSH [7] Second prototype of the Potez 840 light transport (four 530 shp Turbomeca Astazou II turboprop engines)
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Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
Регистрационный номер: F-WJSH [7] The second 840, F-WJSU, during a photographic flight. A number of modifications were incorporated on the second airframe; the windscreen shape was altered and an extra side-window was added to meet American FAA requirements. The aircraft’s gross weight was also increased to 18,700 lb and fuel capacity raised to 366 gal.
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Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
One of a sequence of superb publicity photographs of the Potez 840 taken by renowned French photo-journalist Jean Dieuzaide, who made his reputation capturing magnificent images of the Caravelle and Concorde. In this photograph of the 840 prototype Dieuzaide accentuates the slender, graceful nacelles of the aircraft’s Turbomeca Astazou turboprops.
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Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
Регистрационный номер: F-WLKR The first Potez 841, F-WLKR, fitted with four 578 shp United Aircraft of Canada PT6A-6 (PT6A-22 ???) turboprop engines at Toulouse-Blagnac in January 1965, a few weeks after its first flight on December 22. The tiptanks have been added and the aircraft is in the bare metal, pale blue and white colour scheme of German distributor Aero Dienst, with which it was re-registered D-CAER.
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Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
Represented in its intended final production configuration, with 33 gal tiptanks and Astazous, th 840 was illustrated in this reference drawing as one of a series which used a common key, hence the non-sequential numbering system in the key.
Cutaway key: 1 Pressure bulkheads 2 Passenger door 3 Crew door 6 Emergency window or hatch 7 Cargo doors 8 Fixed toilet 9 Electronics equipment 11 Main undercarriage well 12 Nosewheel well 13 Reverse-pitch propellers 15 Integral fuel tanks 28 Intake to air conditioning 29 Electrical de-icing 37 Captain 38 First Officer 44 Gravity fuel filler 55 VHF radio equipment 56 VOR radio equipment 58 ADF equipment 61 ILS equipment 64 Hydraulic equipment 65 Air-conditioning equipment 73 Taxying lamp 75 Anti-collision beacon 95 Compass detector unit 99 Engine access 134 Floor loading (52 lb/ft2 min) 140 Hot-air de-icing -
Aviation Historian 6 / R.Simpson - Elegant Imperfection
The two proposed cabin configurations for the 840, with the 16-seat standard layout ABOVE and the high-density arrangement for 24 passengers BELOW.
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1966 / 02 - Aircraft
Potez 841 turboprop-powered light transport
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