MAC Mamba

The MAC Mamba, Mamba Range is an Australian two-seat light aircraft designed and built by the Melbourne Aircraft Corporation.[2]

Mamba
Role Two-seat light cabin monoplane
National origin Australia
Manufacturer Melbourne Aircraft Corporation (Mamba Aircraft Company)
Australian Aircraft Industries
Designer Jess Smith[1]

Stress Engineer Merv Reed

First flight 25 January 1989
Status development continuing
Number built 4
Developed into civil and military

Design and development

The Mamba is a strut-braced, high-wing monoplane designed over two years and first flown on 25 January 1989. It has fixed tricycle landing gear and is powered by a 116 hp (87 kW) Lycoming O-235 flat-four piston engine. It has an enclosed glazed cabin with side-by-side configuration seating for two. The fuselage is constructed of welded steel tubing with stressed aluminum skin.[1] It was intended to introduce four-seat and military versions of the Mamba.[2]

The military version was built under contract by Australian Aircraft Industries as the AA-2S Mamba powered by an IO-360.

Variants
AA-2
Lycoming O-235-powered prototype built by Melbourne Aircraft Corporation
AA-2M
Lycoming IO-360-powered military variant built by Australian Aircraft Industries
AA-2S
Lycoming IO-360-powered civilian under test by Mamba Aircraft Company
AA-4S
Lycoming O-320 four-place under development by Mamba Aircraft Company

Specifications (Prototype)

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90[2]

General characteristics

  • Crew: one
  • Capacity: one
  • Length: 7.00 m (22 ft 11.5 in)
  • Wingspan: 8.68 m (28 ft 5.75 in)
  • Height: 2.38 m (7 ft 9.75 in)
  • Wing area: 10.13 m2 (109.04 sq ft)
  • Empty weight: 390 kg (860 lb)
  • Gross weight: 680 kg (1,499 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-235-N2C flat-four piston engine , 86 kW (116 hp)

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 250 km/h (155 mph, 135 kn)
  • Endurance: 5 hours 42 minutes
  • Rate of climb: 7.6 m/s (1,500 ft/min)

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

References

Notes
  1. Air Progress: 26. August 1989. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Taylor 1989, p. 6

Bibliography
  • Taylor, John W.R., ed. (1989). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90. London, United Kingdom: Jane's Yearbooks. ISBN 0-7106-0896-9.


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