AW650 ARGOSY
Nicknamed the "whistling
wheelbarrow", the Argosy was designed to
a 1955 Air Ministry specification for a medium range civil and military
transport, and first flew in 1959.
The manufacturer initially
concentrated on the civil market and seven
aircraft were sold in the USA to Riddle Airlines of Miami. BEA Airlines
also took three Series 100 and later traded these in on seven Series
200.
However the type never
achieved commercial success, partly because
of a shortage of range at maximum payload, and of the 73 eventually
produced, 56 went to the RAF as the Argosy C.1. All examples had
been retired by the early 1990's.
The CD includes the
RAF flight manual (titled Pilot's Notes) which covers
both the C Mk 1 and later E Mk 1 versions, the en-route part of
the
performance data flight manual, has been scanned from the original
manuals and retains any colour pages.
This CD contains:
1. RAF Pilot's
Notes for the Argosy C.1 (also includes the E.1),
AP 101B-2401-15 dated June 1962, (with later revisons),
approx
323 pages.
2. RAF Operating
Data Manual - Vol II Flight Planning for the
Argosy C.Mk.1, AP 4745A -ODM (Vol II), with approx 203
pages.
| CD TITLE | ARGOSY |
| PRICE | US$19.95 plus postage |
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