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Aircraft manufacturers have, for nearly four decades, tried to design the DC-3 replacement dodge with different engine types, including engine piston and Martin 2-0-2/4-0-4 Convair 240/340/440 series and the Vickers Viscount turboprop Fokker F.27 Friendship, HS.748 and Hawker Siddeley. The last attempt had been made by the British aircraft industry, where both de Havilland and Hawker Siddeley had conducted studies market and develop designs for a small capacity, short-range aircraft powered by jet engines during 1959 and 1960 pure.

Of the two, de Havilland, with its previous Rapide, Dove and Heron pistonliners had had considerable experience in regional aircraft and had designed the first jet plane pure, as the quad powered DH.106 Comet. An initial study of this DC-3 replacement, designated the DH.123, had offered a 60.6 feet long overall, a major of 81.3 meters, two 1,150 shp turboprop Gnone coupled with a high wing, and a maximum of 22,100 pounds WEIGHT takeoff. So configured, would accommodate between 32 and 40 passengers, or a little more than the DC-3 standard of 21 to 28.

De Havilland, subsequently taken over by Hawker Siddeley and redesigned the "De Havilland Division, was interrupted by the workforce in the DH.123 design because it would have competed closely with the Hawker Siddeley own Rolls-Royce Dart powered Avro 748 which had seated 44. However, the existing turboprop competition, along with the De Havilland belief that pure jet technology would attract substantial passenger appeal, resulted in mid-1960 proposal DH.126 design, which included the following standard configuration of most low capacity short range aircraft double, as the SE.210 Caravelle, BAC-111, and DC-9, with swept wings, aft-mounted engines and a T-tail. Powered by two 3860 pounds of thrust - Havilland jet engines PS92, has introduced a 60.3 feet long for the accommodation of 30 passengers and a 62-foot wingspan.

Several iterations had introduced progressive but moderate scope, thrust, and the gross weight increase in 1964, but further development has been hampered by four key obstacles:

1. Adapted pure availability jet engine.
2. The interruption of engine development promising due to several mergers mid-1960 British motor manufacturer.
3. Higher seat-mile costs on the DC-3-sectors to which the new design is planned.
4. The inability to exploit the speed of an airplane pure jet over relatively short sectors.

Hawker Siddeley, believing that the turboprop engine was only provisional Technology incidentally, had also embarked on a pure airliner jet design program of its own long before the merger de Havilland, though its low-wing engines aft, t-tail configurations had looked a lot like its competitor the first.

The attempt to minimize development costs by using the cabin, forward fuselage, systems, and the cabin of his own Avro 748, which had proposed the HS.131 in 1964, which had offered similar 62.8 meters Overall length and a wingspan of 67-feet of De Havilland DH.126 comparable, but their projections for 5000 pounds of thrust Rolls Royce has allowed RB.172 provide greater than 30,000 pounds and a gross capacity of 32 passengers.

First, as De Havilland, with lack of adaptation of the engine and unavailability, Hawker Siddeley devised round iterations electrical projects. A radical change of configuration, introduced by HS.136 1967, for example, had resulted in a low-wing aircraft powered by two 9730 lb thrust Rolls Royce engine with a conventional tail accommodate 57 passengers in a five day cabin and provide a maximum of 54,000 pounds WEIGHT takeoff. While the agreement has removed the aft-mounted tail t-propensity toward depth of the stable and flame conditions, and its proximity to land would have facilitated close passengers, aircraft service and maintenance access, the potential for foreign object debris (FOD) ingestion motor HS.144 had yielded to the proposed two years later, he returned once again to the configuration of the engine, now standard on stern.

The progressive evolution of design and dimensional and increases intermittently push had resulted in a passenger plane whose capacity was double the DC-3, and the Rolls-Royce from bankruptcy caused the interruption development of Trent in 1970, the DC-3 replacement, now powerless, has become increasingly difficult to achieve.

This low capacity short range aircraft had, as ever, depends on an engine of its existence, and the potential of establishing only a small turbofan being developed by Avco Lycoming in the U.S.. Based on 7000 lbs thrust F102 that had fed the Northrop A-9A, the engine of a derivative designated civil derated ALF-502, was initiated in 1969 for the Canadair CL-601 Challenger business jet and was first run two years later. To provide a commercial application, which was of modular construction.

Because the rate of 6,500 pounds of thrust numbers were insufficient for the final design of aircraft, HS.146 1971, and because there is another driver who had been adequate in the development stage, the last DC-3 replacement had been designed by the force round of four, not two, engines and is not the norm, the engine mounted on the stern, t-wing and tail assembly of the alternative configuration. Alas, instead, would be the two top sports, modestly, which swept the four turboprops would pole-mounted. Accommodate 88 passengers, or three times the DC-3 passenger plane, with a length of 86.2 meters and 84.10 meters wingspan, had a 70,000 pounds of gross weight and 700-nautical mile range.

However, the HS.146 offers several advantages over previous standard agreement Havilland and design studios Hawker Siddeley. Short field performance, fully the equivalent of turboprops intended to replace, had been hit by its thrust to weight and the wing, which, with a coverage of 78 percent of its trailing edge with Fowler flaps, has avoided the need for cutting-edge devices, and simplifying and reducing more weight has been achieved with the elimination of the thrust reversers. The t-tail, the remainder of the first designs had been kept in order to protect the engine and interference wing turbulence.

The four engine pods, which had been interchangeable modular building located nuclei built by fan base, the accessory gearbox, the producer of gas compressor and turbine sections of the combustion.

11.8 meters in diameter of the fuselage had allowed domestic coach six abreast seating arrangement, which was double the DC-3.

To meet the demands of different route, Hawker Siddeley offered an initial 88-HS-146-100 passengers and a straight, 102-HS.146 passenger-200 version, both in the maximum six current densities, although the capacity might reduced with the kind of variables, including seats, front and arrangements.

Every intention, as a counterpart to the pure jet turboprop Viscount HS.748, and F.27, the HS.146 had been optimized for several daily frequencies, high, short-range and short sectors unprepared gravel tracks, however, reach 15 per percent less direct operating costs of these aircraft. slow, controlled approach speed of just over 100 knots, it had been possible for the fuselage aft air brake petals and 40 degrees from the edge of end flap, allowing operation from runways of 5,000 meters.

Hawker Siddeley had estimated a market 1,500 aircraft of this type in 1982.

HS.146 launch the program, on the basis of 40 million British pounds of government support and investment from the manufacturer, had occurred on 29 August 1973, and the first flight of the short fuselage HS.146-100, had been scheduled for December that year following certification, in February 1977, while the HS.146 stretched-200, coinciding with the cell session, had received certification in August 1978. A wooden scale model was built in Hatfield intermittently.

Like many British commercial projects, its timing had been abruptly stopped a little more a year after it had begun. Escalating fuel prices from the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War, the changing conditions economic, and a general recession, along with the pending nationalization of the aviation industry in the UK, made the program uneconomic HS.146 October 1974. As a result, had been arrested, but has continued small-scale engineering and drawings of the aircraft, tools and templates have been maintained.

Three years later, on 15 March 1977, British Aerospace was formed with the merger of Hawker Siddeley and British Aircraft Corporation, and design renamed BAe-146, has been relaunched. Had been the first to be conducted again by the conglomeration of the following year, on 10 July 1978.

Deployed by first time three years later, on 20 May 1981 in Hatfield, the aircraft, registered G-SSSH, became the first new British design from the BAC-111 was flown 18 years earlier.

The aircraft, in its original BAe-146-100 form, appears as a pressure, semi-monocoque, alloy, aluminum / copper, the structure inside the fuselage fuselage carrying the bending loads of the aircraft and whose outer, notched ring load carried pure, a construction technique that eliminated about 5,000 Stringer / frame strips. Its 11.8 feet in diameter, allowing five or six car seats in front, had said that passengers would enjoy the same comfort that the typical supply routes such as that offered by widebody long-range performance of sectors that often transferred.

A single kind of capacity varying from 71 in a five-day, 33-inch configuration with 82 in a six-day, 33-agreement of 93 inches and a last for a period of six per day, the density of 29-inches. Total capacity decreased with a striker of 12 seats in first class cabin configuration four a day.

The plane was a 85-foot, 11 ½ inches in overall length.

The wings, with a period of 86-feet and 832-square-foot area, presented a 15-sweepback degree and three degrees of anhedral in their edges. Because the aircraft short, 150-sectors nautical miles at cruising speeds in excess of Optimized its Mach 0.7 had not been necessary and has therefore avoided the need for greater sweepback. Low speed, short field performance had been achieved through of single section, with flanges, edge flaps behind Fowler, who, with an area of 210 square meters, had covered 78 per cent of the duration and had been Dowty hydraulically powered actuators for Rotolo. Roll control were provided by manual operation, trim and tab-equipped servo flaps, which operated in connection with the outside of each wing flaps hydraulically actuated roll. Three additional inboard spoilers served as lift dumpers after landing.

The power was provided by four Textron Lycoming ALF-502R-5 turbofans, each rated at 6970 pounds of thrust, and they had replaced the less thrust, lb-6700-ALF 502Hs originally intended for design. Avco Lycoming has since become "Textron Lycoming."

A total of 3098 U.S. gallons of fuel could be carried in two integral wing tank and a central section, the latter located above the passenger cabin and equipped with ventilation drainage and sealing of the diaphragm. The only point of feeding pressure had been placed in the right wing outboard of the number four engine.

The stabilizer fixed horizontal mounted atop the vertical fin is not required standard variable geometry effect device because the lack of wing leading edge had removed from the balance requirements normally associated with changes in tone of the latter. Its location, avoiding the deflection of the wing and the interference of engine thrust, provided the greatest moment arm, which reduces the required area and weight. Their lifts were operated manually, while the vertical fin rudder had been operated hydraulically.

The key to the BAe-146 design has been the 40-square-foot hydraulically operated air brake petal which are integral and aerodynamic tail cone at the end of the fuselage and deployment to a maximum of 60 degree positions. Increase slow and controlled, increased rates descent, which enabled the aircraft to descend to 7,000 feet per minute above 10,000 feet and 4,000 feet per minute below, to facilitate operation of short track and eliminating the need for thrust reversers.

Hydraulically powered aircraft, tricycle landing gear had been formed by a blimp, derrick telescope-connected, forward-retracting nose wheel and two displaced outboard main units retract inward blister fairings on the sides of type fuselage. All the time Dunlop tires, while several of the main gear carbon brake disk had only been previously employed by Concord.

Two 3,000-psi hydraulic power systems trailing edge flaps, air brake petal, the landing gear and wheel brakes. Garrett GTCP AiResearch A 36-100M auxiliary power unit had provided conditioned cabin and engine power source and which was operable up to 20,000 feet.

With a maximum of Takeoff weight of 84,000 pounds, the BAe-146-100 had a 880-nautical mile range with maximum payload and a range of 1.620 miles nautical fuel at its maximum.

First flight on 3 September 1981, one hour, 35 minutes in a battle of 64.000 pounds of takeoff weight, the BAe-146-100 has been designated as "very stable, very sensitive, and delightfully quiet "for their test driver and had received the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) certificate of type 4 February 1983. certification FAA followed three months later, on May 20.

Dan-Air Services, Inc., launch customer for the type, had placed two orders and two optioned firms previous September, and was inaugurated into service scheduled for 1 March 1983, with a flashing aircraft provided to British Aerospace, in the London / Gatwick-Bern, Switzerland, the route, before deploying its own aircraft on the route from 27 May. The BAe-146 has been the only pure jet was able to operate from Berne short tracks.

The largest, BAe-146-200, with a stretch of five framework, a new length of 93.10 meters in general and could accommodate 100 passengers in a configuration of six per day in a seat pitch of 33 inches or a maximum of 112 to 29-inch pitch, but otherwise kept the BAe-146-100 wingspan. The plane, with a maximum of 93,000 pounds to lose weight, had a range of 1,130 nautical miles with a full load or a range of 1,570 nautical miles of fuel.

First flight on 1 August 1982 and registered G-WISC, the rate had been inaugurated into service the following year, on June 27 by Air Wisconsin, who had placed a firm order for four-body variant of four optioned aircraft, configured for 100, 20 May 1981, the same day that the shorter first implanted. Joining a fleet of Fairchild Swearingen Metro IIs and De Havilland Canada DHC-7 turboprop aircraft, the BAe-146-200 were deployed on average 127-mile segments of the route, rarely further escalation of 17,000 feet, and in the spring of 1984, had served 16 cities in the Midwest, with 14 sectors per day diary. Ultimately, replaced to turboprops.

The largest order for 20 firm and 25 options had been placed by another U.S. regional carrier, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA), while other U.S. operators Air-Pac had included the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, Aspen Airways, Air-Cal, American Airlines, Discovery Airways Hawaiian Presidential Airways, Royal West, USAir, and West Commuter.

The BAe-146 was the first pure jet to be certified to operate from London City STOLport, located in the Docklands region, due to its ability to approach the short-track behavior, and low noise.

In order to expand its line of products, offer greater passenger capacity, and more adequately compete with the Fokker F.100 own advanced, stretched, British Aerospace offers a second installment of his long original BAe-146-100, which had led to 8.1-foot forward and 7.8 foot caps aft fuselage, compared with the BAe-146-200. The resulting version, the BAe-146-300, submitted on strengthening central section of the fuselage and a new 100-feet, 8 ¼ inches in length, but otherwise employees of the scale of it and ALF-502R-5 turbofans. single class, five a day capacity, to a seat pitch of 31 inches, had been 103, but 128 high density of passengers, at a distance from 29-inch seats, could be met by the addition of Type III emergency exits installed in the central fuselage. Variant of 97,500 pounds, with a range of 1,040 nautical miles with a full load and a range of 1,520 nautical miles with full fuel, had first flown on 1 May 1987, after the BAe-146-100 prototype (G-SSSH) had converted to this standard and re-register G-LUXE.

Air Wisconsin, the launch customer for new version, had taken over their first long fuselage BAe-146-300 on December 10, 1988, one of five that were part of their previous order of-200.

A freighter version, the BAe-146-QT Quiet Trader, had been available in the three passenger versions. The incorporation of an increasingly open, hydraulically actuated, 10.11 by 6.4 foot door on her stern, left, a reinforced floor and cargo system, the aircraft, no passenger windows and the facilities could accommodate new LD-3 or six containers of 108-by-88 inch pallets up to 6,000 pounds each and only 53 per-88 half-inch paddle. The prototype, a BAe-146-200 converted by Hayes International Corporation, had first flown on March 20, 1986 and was inaugurated into service by TNT International Aviation Services the following year on May 5. The operator had subsequently acquired a number significant of them.

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A representative of BAe-146-200 flight operated by Air Zimbabwe to Hwange Kariba have been adopted in September 1994.

Founded in 1967 as Air Rhodesia to operate routes Rhodesia Central African Airways, the company continually changing as a result of increased majority rule black, had been renamed Air Rhodesia-Zimbabwe in 1979 and, simply, Air Zimbabwe the following year after the country had attained independence. The period transition, plagued by political instability had caused constant reorganizing the structure of routes, including to South Africa only.

When the internal situation was ultimately restabilized, the path system was restored gradually, once again offering the connections between Zimbabwe and many nations of Africa region, as well as in Europe. In 1982, Air Zimbabwe Viscounts operated eight, three 720B and three 707-320Bs, although there were 707 Additional later replaced the 720.

Because of deregulation, competition led to the small company has increased its efforts to further remain competitive with improved passenger service and a more modern fleet of three types which had included a BAe-146-200, three 737-200s and two 767-200ER, serving the national five destinations Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Harare, Hwange, Kariba and Victoria Falls, 11 international destinations in Africa Dar es Salaam, Durban, Gaborone, Johannesburg, Lilongwe, Lusaka, Manzini, Maputo, Mauritius, Nairobi and Windhoek, and the three intercontinental European destinations of Frankfurt, Larnaca, and London.

In June 1983, has launched a "Customer Care Program" to improve service and introduce a new Executive Business Class on its two-body aircraft width to more effectively compete with large international carriers that had operated between Europe and Africa.

Toted had three slogans: "A tradition of care "in 1989," mostly the "We Care" in 1992 and "The experience of our commitment to excellence" in 1994.

Its stated purpose was free "to the airline that best suits the needs of customers to be profitable, and contribute to the development of Zimbabwe, using the skills and talents of a committed workforce. "

The BAe-146-200 flights a day, registered and called Z-WPD "Jungwe" had been configured with 91 single class, six posts a day and had been equipped with a passenger audio system. Routed from Victoria Falls to Hwange, Kariba and Harare in the flight number "of UM 229," which operated in three sectors ranging from 30 minutes, an hour and 45 minutes.

After loading, the terminal only through its Airstar forward, left, high wing, four-engined regional jet British sporting striped livery of black, red, yellow and green, executed a roll over taxi on the runway flanked by concrete Hwange dry, brown grass and extensions scrub, interspersed periodically by feeding herds of impala.

Completing your "before takeoff" checklist, and extending its trailing edge flaps Fowler to its position of 24 degrees, the plane strangled in her role of acceleration, the four ALF-502R-5 turbofans 35,500 kilos boost mass with 6970 pounds of thrust in the life of high-speed generation. Drawing himself in the rotation at 112 knots with articulated horizontal tail lift, the BAe-146 given himself in the warm African atmosphere at a speed of 118-node V2, retracting its landing gear and speeding tricycle through a 171-knot speed VFTO into the gray sky, darkening.

Leaning on the right bank of the extent of brown and tan in Africa at 4,200 meters, the BAe-146 is retracted of fins of 24 - to 0-degree position, completing his "before takeoff" checklist. climbing through 7,600 feet, when the which 291-knot ground speed was registered, maintained a rate of climb of 1800 feet per minute. Its NAV indicated a distance of 135.4 miles to Kariba.

Plunging through the darkness 15,780 feet dirty opaque, Fight triumphed over 229 white-looking mountain cluster, now unfettered by the cartoons pure blue illustriously afternoon at 18,640 feet.

Inching the throttle a moment later, the British regional lining settled into its 21,000-foot level on a plateau of 354-knot ground speed with the remaining 97.7 miles to its destination.

Cab service in the field of national time had included a selection of soft drinks, mineral water, orange juice, lemonade and a snack treat of crisps and peanuts.

The ground speed was pinnacle of 411 knots.

Decline, which began with 54 miles remaining on his flight plan had been reached by dialing 5,500 feet in the "cockpit Automatic ALT SEL ", resulting in 2,000 feet per minute descent rate.

Surrender once again to the thick darkness of reference for the loss of cloud cover, the aircraft fell through 10,000 feet at a speed of 260 knots with 21 miles remaining Kariba, extending its air brake petal At 7,000 feet, which resulted in a very controlled, but induced drag profile. At an altitude of 4,500 feet had marked intermittently in the "ALT SEL".

Leaving the fog on the roof of the baby blue of Lake Kariba, which had been outlined by dry brush coast, cinnamon and coffee, the captain consulted his fin graph for landing weight of 34,500 kilos.

Fowler flaps extend its 18-degree position at 3,600 feet, at which time 6.4 miles had remained in his flight plan, the plane dropped its landing gear at a speed of 162 knots and land their high powered lifting devices in position 24 degrees of arc, while the left bank of the extent of parched desert. Black mountain silhouettes in the light rolled past the windows of the cab.

The descent to 2600 meters in a 161-knot ground speed, the BAe-146-200, now sports 33 degrees of flap edge end, maintained a heading of 270 degrees, the track landing, apparently plowed into the straw brown, visible through the windshield.

Expansion of air brake petal at 60 degrees position, the aircraft, at a negligible rate of decline, passed through the runway 27 threshold of 120 knots, which retards their gas and burning in contact with the main landing gear sizzilingly hot concrete. deceleration with considerable brake applications, and manage your wing already deployed in the "SPLR LIFT position" reverse thrust consumed without quad-jet from the centreline of the nose wheel until it had reached its limit and could execute a 180 degrees.

Running onto the track single terminal in the middle of the sweltering 94 degrees of heat, high wing, tail t-passenger plane, but usually minuscule next to a large body intercontinental Air diminished PA-23 Azteca America and the collection of private pistons now stationed around.

The BAe-146 has, as shown in this sector, he served as liaison between the Zimbabwe road outside her small cities and communities.

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Although the British Aerospace BAe-146 sold only 219 examples of all versions at 45 airlines in the world, however, had formed the basis of its latest and most advanced, Textron Lycoming LF507-powered Avro RJ70, RJ85, RJ100 and derivatives.

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