AirGO Flugservice Piaggio P-180 Avanti twin backward facing turbo prop engines at Inverness Scotland SCO 2017
The Piaggio Avanti is a twin-engine business aircraft produced by Piaggio Aero. It seats up to nine passengers in a pressurized cabin, and may be flown by one or two pilots. The radical design includes the main wing placed behind and above the horizontal stabiliser similar to a canard, engines which face backwards and a Blended Wing Body. The Avanti has turboprop engines in a pusher configuration, placed on a mid-fuselage, high aspect ratio wing, located behind the cabin. The design utilizes both a T-tail and a small fixed canard which lacks control surfaces. The arrangement of the wing surfaces allows all three to provide lift, as opposed to a conventional configuration where the horizontal stabilizer creates a downward force to counteract the nose-down moment that a conventional main wing generates. Distinctive design features include a non-constant cross section cabin, the revolutionary shape of which approximates a NACA airfoil section. Piaggio claims the fuselage contributes up to 20% of the Avanti's total lift, with horizontal stabilizer, wing and canard providing the remaining 80%. Because of the fuselage's unusual shape, the mid cabin is considerably wider than the cockpit, and the entire cabin sits ahead of the main wing spar. The wing and canard airfoils are custom sections designed by Dr. Jerry Gregorek of Ohio State University to achieve a drag-reducing 50% laminar flow at cruise. The company claims the overall design of the P180 Avanti II enables the wing to be 34% smaller than on conventional aircraft and a specific range of nm per pound of fuel. This is significantly better than the to nm/pound of similar small jets. SCO 2017
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Location: Dalcross Airport Inverness Highland Region Scotland UK
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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