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Pellarini Air Jeep
Luigi Pellarini was a prolific designer of utilitarian aircraft who
emigrated from Italy to Australia. He worked on many aircraft designs,
some of which remained as drawings, became one-off prototypes or saw
limited or mass production.
The Air Jeep was one of his designs which remained a one-off
prototype, which never made it into the air. The incomplete airframe
is on display in Toowoomba, at the Army Museum of Aviation. To quote
the notes from the display:
"AIRJEEP PROTOTYPE
Designed in Australia in the late fifties by Luigi Pellarini.
A sesqui-plane design for use by the military, there was little
interest however and the project did not go any further. The Transavia
Airtruk did evolve from this design and was a successful agricultural
aircraft."
The design appears to be a canard sesqui-plane pusher with split
V-tail!
It may be disputed that the PL.12 Airtruk evolved from this design,
since the PL.12 is more closely related to the PL.11 Airtruck. But no
doubt the Air Jeep is a close cousin of the Airtruk. |
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AAC Wamira
This advanced military trainer was designed and developed by the
Australian Aircraft Consortium. It was taken all the way to prototype
stage when the project was cancelled. The RAAF ordered Pilatus PC-9
trainers to fulfil the requirement for which the Wamira was intended. |
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GAF Project N
In its early stages, the GAF Nomad was referred to as Project N, and
it began life as a single-engined utility and agricultural aircraft.
This 3-view shows its original configuration. |
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First created 06/07/2003 - Last updated 06/07/2003
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