Nash Petrel

Nash Petrel
The prototype Nash Petrel at the Farnborough SBAC Show in September 1982
Role	Two-seat utility monoplane
National origin	United Kingdom
Manufacturer	Proctor Aircraft Associates Nash Aircraft
First flight	8 November 1980
Number built	2

The Nash Petrel also known as the Procter Petrel is a two-seat aerobatic or glider tug aircraft designed for amateur production by Procter Aircraft Associates of Camberley, Surrey, England. By the time the aircraft first flew, Procter had changed ownership and had been renamed Nash Aircraft Ltd.^[1]

Development

Based on the earlier Mitchell-Proctor Kittiwake design^[2], the Petrel is an all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional design powered by a 130 hp Rolls-Royce Continental O-240-A piston engine. Only two aircraft were built, the prototype registered G-AXSF and one built by apprentices at the British Aircraft Corporation factory at [Preston] in 1973, registered G-BACA. G-BACA had a serious fault with the landing gear and only flew 15 hours before being grounded.^[3] The prototype is still exists but without a current certificate of airworthiness and fitted with a Lycoming O-360-A3A engine.

Specifications

General characteristics

• Crew: 1 (pilot)
• Capacity: 1 (passenger)
• Length: 20 ft 5 in (6.22 m)
• Wingspan: 29 ft 8 in (9.04 m)
• Empty weight: 1200 lb (544 kg)
• Gross weight: 1750 lb (704 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 hp (134 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 130 mph (209 km/h)
• Cruise speed: 120 mph (192 km/h)

Notes

1. ^ Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1985–86, 295
2. ^ "Petrel takes to the air" 1980, p. 1951
3. ^ Cheers 2007, p.5

References

• Cheers, Geoff (November 2007). "The Petrel Project". PENSIONupdate (BAE Systems): 5. http://dev.baesystemspensions.com/CMS/allDocuments/Pensioner_Newsletter_ROPS_fnl.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-27. 
• Jackson, A.J. (1974). British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 3. London: Putnam. ISBN 0 370 10014 X. 
• Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1985–86. London: Jane's Publishing. 
• "Petrel takes to the air". Flight International. 22 November 1980. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1980/1980%20-%203542.html. Retrieved 2008-12-27. 
• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. 
• Roland Beaumont - Testing Years - Ian Allan published 1980