Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Douglas C-47 Skytrain atau Dakota (sebutan dari RAF) adalah pesawat angkut militer sayap rendah (low wing) yang dikembangkan dari pesawat Douglas DC-3.
Tipe | Pesawat transportasi militer |
---|---|
Perancang | Douglas Aircraft |
Terbang perdana | 23 December 1941[1] |
Status | Tidak diproduksi, dalam pelayanan (di Kolombia, El Salvador dan Afrika Selatan) |
Pengguna utama | Pasukan Udara Tentara Darat Amerika Serikat |
Pengguna lain | Royal Air Force Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat |
Jumlah produksi | >10,000 |
Acuan dasar | Douglas DC-3 |
Varian | Douglas XCG-17 Douglas AC-47 Spooky |
Pesawat ini digunakan secara luas oleh Sekutu selama Perang Dunia II dan tetap di garis depan pelayanan dengan berbagai operator militer selama 1950.
Operators
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgia
- Benin
- Biafra
- Bangladesh
- Bolivia
- Brasil
- Burma
- Kamboja
- Kanada[2]
- Chad
- Chili
- Republik Tiongkok
- Tiongkok
- Kolombia
- Republik Kongo
- Republik Demokratik Congo
- Kuba
- Cekoslowakia
- Denmark
- Republik Dominika
- Ekuador
- Mesir
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Finlandia
- Prancis
- Gabon
- Nazi Germany[3]
- Jerman
- Yunani
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungaria
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Israel
- Italia
- Pantai Gading
- Yordania
- Jepang
- Kenya
- Korea Selatan
- Laos
- Libya
- Madagaskar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Meksiko
- Monako
- Maroko
- Belanda
- Selandia Baru
- Nikaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Northern Rhodesia[4]
- Norwegia
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua Nugini
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Filipina
- Polandia
- Portugal
- Rhodesia
- Rumania
- Rwanda
- Arab Saudi
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Somalia
- Uni Soviet (also as Lisunov Li-2)
- Sri Lanka
- Spanyol
- Swedia
- Singapura
- Suriah
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Turki
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Britania Raya
- Amerika Serikat
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- South Vietnam
- Yaman
- Yugoslavia
- Zaire
- Zambia[4]
Spesifikasi
Data from Buku McDonnell Douglas aircraft since 1920 : Volume I
General characteristics
- Crew: 4 (pilot, co-pilot, navigator dan radio operator)
- Capacity: 28 personil
- Length: 63 ft 9 in (19,43 m)
- Wingspan: 95 ft 6 in (29,11 m)
- Height: 17 ft 0 in (5,18 m)
- Wing area: 987 sq ft (91,7 m2)
- Airfoil: root: NACA 2215; tip: NACA 2206[5]
- Empty weight: 18.135 pon (8.226 kg)
- Gross weight: 26.000 pon (11.793 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 31.000 pon (14.061 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C Twin Wasp 14-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, 1.200 hp (890 kW) each
- Propellers: 3-bladed constant-speed propellers
Performance
- Maximum speed: 224 mph (360 km/h; 195 kn) at 10.000 ft (3.000 m)
- Range: 1.600 mi (1.390 nmi; 2.575 km)
- Ferry range: 3.600 mi (3.128 nmi; 5.794 km)
- Service ceiling: 26.400 ft (8.047 m)
- Time to altitude: 10.000 ft (3.000 m) in 9 minutes 30 seconds
- Wing loading: 263 pon/sq ft (1.280 kg/m2)
- Power/mass: 00.926 hp/lb (1.522 kW/kg)
Referensi
- ^ "C-47 Skytrain." Boeing. Retrieved: 1 August 2010.
- ^ "Douglas DC-3 (CC-129) Dakota." Diarsipkan 2011-06-11 di Wayback Machine. DND - Canada's Air Force. Retrieved: 14 October 2009.
- ^ "Das Archiv der Deutschen Luftwaffe." (in German) LuftArchiv.de. Retrieved: 5 July 2010.
- ^ a b "Trade Registers". Armstrade.sipri.org. Diakses tanggal 2013-06-20.
- ^ Lednicer, David. "The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage". m-selig.ae.illinois.edu. Diakses tanggal 16 April 2019.
- Donald, David. The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1997. ISBN 0-7607-0592-5.
- Flintham, Victor. Air Wars and Aircraft: A Detailed Record of Air Combat, 1945 to the Present. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2356-5.
- Francillon, René J. McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Since 1920. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1979. ISBN 0-370-00050-1.
- Gradidge, Jennifer M. The Douglas DC-1, DC-2, DC-3: The First Seventy Years. Two volumes. Tonbridge, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2006. ISBN 0-85130-332-3.
- Pearcy, Arthur Jr. "Douglas R4D variants (US Navy's DC-3/C-47)". Aircraft in Profile, Volume 14. Windsor, Berkshire, UK: Profile Publications Ltd., 1974, pp. 49–73. ISBN 0-85383-023-1.
- Yenne, Bill. McDonnell Douglas: A Tale of Two Giants. Greenwich, Connecticut: Bison Books, 1985. ISBN 0-517-44287-6.
Pranala luar
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai C-47 Skytrain.
- Manual: (1943) T.O. No. 01-40NC-1 Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions C-47 Airplane
- The Assault Glider Trust
- Warbird Alley: C-47 page
- American Aeronautical Foundation, C-47B "Aluminum Mistress" [pranala nonaktif]
- The SNAFU Special C-47A aircraft recovered and restored
- [1] LIFE photo interior C-47 'Litter-ship' North Africa 1943
- article on the RAF BBMF (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight)