Evangel 4500-300

Must admit I never heard of this aircraft , ugly but effective bush plane.

Some info on this link

http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepEvangel.html

There's a reason some planes are rare.. What would it do that's so special? It's certainly not pretty from every or any angle.. Nev

There's a reason some planes are rare.. What would it do that's so special? It's certainly not pretty from every or any angle.. Nev

 

http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepEvangel.html

Interesting read. Similar conditions to PNG at the same time. Qantas used corrugated skinned Fokkers, then TAA used Bristol freighters from Pakistan with JATO (Time expired) assistance. A wild ride.  practically everything being built was carried in them including bulldozers.The Pilatus Porter (Single PT6) was a good thing BIG cargo space and better than the Beaver and Otter planes with their hard worked P&W single row radials. which often failed.  The LSALT  on the way back from LAE to Moresby was 17,400 feet. so I wonder IF Evangel would get there. You need blowers to get those levels.  Nev

Big fat wing , very low vmc , simple maintance , but asthetically ugly , people who have flown them seem to like them greatly.

Same company made a twin pusher , the "angel  again I never heard of it before .

Link to Angel Aircraft

http://www.angelaircraft.com/History.html

little bit more on the "Angel "

http://www.swaviator.com/html/issueJJ99/angel.html

The Angel Aircraft Corporation Model 44 Angel is a twin-engine STOL utility aircraft produced in the United States since the mid-1990s. ... Four aircraft were placed between 1984 and 2008 but Hubei Taihang Xinghe Aircraft Manufacturing of China acquired a production license in 2013.

Having the two large doors makes the design" structurally difficult" in that area. It's of necessity, crude and I can't see much point in producing it, or basing a design on it.. IT did a job at the time but will no doubt be less strong for it's weight than a better design which is what counts. Payload to AUW ratio. Compare it with the truly magnificent DC3 of 1936.  which today would not make money if performance was the decider. but at the time,  mind blowing. Nev

The old "corrugated iron" tri-motor Junkers G.31's of the early 1930's, did sterling service in PNG before WW2, ferrying mining supplies largely to the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. in the PNG highlands.

The Junkers G.31's had the ability to load heavy and long items such as shafting for the mine, due to the ability to load the long items directly into the fuselage from the top, because the top of the fuselage had a removable hatch measuring 3.6 x 1.5 metres.

The feats of the Junkers G.31's in PNG rate as the most incredible constant aviation freight effort for the era, actually putting the DC-3 to shame - more so when you learn the G.31 was designed in 1926.

The G.31 was powered by 3 x BMW-132's - a P&W R-1690 Hornet engine, built under licence by BMW and producing a very modest 500HP.

Some fabulous photos of the G.31's in operation on the Bulolo run, on the website link below.

https://eamonh.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/two-little-dickie-birds-how-new-guinea-pioneered-modern-aviation/

And a downloadable 1938 article on the Bulolo aviation effort ...

http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Downloads/New Guinea Gold.pdf

The old "corrugated iron" tri-motor Junkers G.31's of the early 1930's, did sterling service in PNG before WW2, ferrying mining supplies largely to the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. in the PNG highlands.

 

The Junkers G.31's had the ability to load heavy and long items such as shafting for the mine, due to the ability to load the long items directly into the fuselage from the top, because the top of the fuselage had a removable hatch measuring 3.6 x 1.5 metres.

 

The feats of the Junkers G.31's in PNG rate as the most incredible constant aviation freight effort for the era, actually putting the DC-3 to shame - more so when you learn the G.31 was designed in 1926.

 

The G.31 was powered by 3 x BMW-132's - a P&W R-1690 Hornet engine, built under licence by BMW and producing a very modest 500HP.

 

Some fabulous photos of the G.31's in operation on the Bulolo run, on the website link below.

 

https://eamonh.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/two-little-dickie-birds-how-new-guinea-pioneered-modern-aviation/

 

And a downloadable 1938 article on the Bulolo aviation effort ...

 

http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Downloads/New Guinea Gold.pd

 

Tough old planes , a great book on new guinea flying is Sepik pilot , and a it's about Bobby Gibbs airline and the Junkers 52's , Geoff Goodall's site has a good read too

https://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/junkers ju52/junkersju52.html