MAC Mamba

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

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 a 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 11½ in)
• Wingspan: 8.68 m (28 ft 5¾ in)
• Height: 2.38 m (7 ft 9¾ in)
• Wing area: 10.13 m² (109.04 ft²)
• Empty weight: 390 kg (860 lb)
• Gross weight: 680 kg (1499 AA-2 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-235-N2C flat-four piston engine, 86 kW (116 hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 250 km/h (155 mph)
• Endurance: 5 hours  42 min

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

• Glasair GlaStar

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