MAC Mamba

Mamba
Role	Two-seat light cabin monoplane
National origin	Australia
Manufacturer	Melbourne Aircraft Corporation (Mamba Aircraft Company) Australian Aircraft Industries
Designer	Jess Smith^[1] Stress Engineer Merv Reed
First flight	25 January 1989
Status	development continuing
Number built	4
Developed into	civil and military

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

References

Notes

1 2 Air Progress: 26. August 1989. Missing or empty |title= (help)
1 2 3 Taylor 1989, p. 6

Bibliography

Taylor, John W.R., ed. (1989). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1989-90. London, United Kingdom: Jane's Yearbooks. ISBN 0-7106-0896-9.

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