Aero Vodochody
Aero L-29 Delfín (Dolphin), NATO reporting name: Maya)
Aero Vodochody
L-29 Delfín (Dolphin
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| Aero L-29 Delfín | |
| Role | Military trainer aircraftLight attack |
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| Manufacturer | Aero Vodochody |
| Designer | Ing. Jan Vlček, Z. Rublič and K. Tomáš |
| First flight | 5 April 1959 |
| Introduction | 1961 |
| Status | Limited service; popular civilian warbird |
| Primary users | Soviet Air Force (historical) Czechoslovak Air Force (historical) Bulgarian Air Force (historical) Egyptian Air Force (historical) |
| Produced | 1963–1974 |
| Number built | 3,665 |
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History Aero Vodochody
Aero L-29 Delfín (Dolphin), NATO reporting name: Maya)
The Aero L-29 Delfín (English: Dolphin, NATO reporting name: Maya) is a military jet trainer developed and manufactured by Czechoslovakian aviation manufacturer Aero Vodochody. It is the country's first locally designed and constructed jet aircraft, and likely the biggest aircraft industrial programme to take place in any of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) countries except the Soviet Union.
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In the late 1950s, the Soviet Air Force commenced the search for a suitable jet-powered replacement for its fleet of piston-engined trainers; over time, this requirement was progressively broadened towards the goal of developing a trainer aircraft that could be adopted and in widespread use throughout the national air forces of the Eastern Bloc countries. Around the same time, Czechoslovakia had also been independently developing its own requirements for a suitable jet successor to its then-current propeller-powered trainer aircraft.[1] In response to these demands, Aero decided to develop its own aircraft design; the effort was headed by a pair of aerospace engineers, Z. Rublič and K. Tomáš.[1] Their work was centered upon the desire to produce a single design that would be suitable both performing basic and advanced levels of the training regime, carrying pilots straight through to being prepared to operate frontline combat aircraft.
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Aero Vodochody Aero L-29 Delfín (Dolphin),
NATO reporting name: Maya)
Aero Vodochody
Aero L-29 Delfín (Dolphin),
NATO reporting name: Maya)
General Info
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Crew: 2- Length: 10.81 m (35 ft 6 in)
- Wingspan: 10.29 m (33 ft 9 in)
- Height: 3.13 m (10 ft 3 in)
- Wing area: 19.80 m2 (213.1 sq ft)
Powerplant
- Empty weight: 2,280 kg
- Max takeoff weight: 3,280 kg )
- Fuel capacity: 962 L (254 US gal; 212 imp gal), provision for 2× 150 L (40 US gal; 33 imp gal) external tanks
- Powerplant: 1 × Motorlet M-701c 500 turbojet, 8.7 kN (1,960 lbf) thrust
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Performance
- Maximum speed: 655 km/h (407 mph, 354 kn) at 5,000 m (16,400 ft)
- Stall speed: 130 km/h (81 mph, 70 kn) (flaps down)
- Never exceed speed: 820 km/h (510 mph, 440 kn)
- Range: 894 km (556 mi, 483 nmi) (with external tanks)
- Endurance: 2 hr 30 min
- Service ceiling: 11,000 m (36,000 ft)
Armament
- Guns: 2x 7.62mm machine gun pods on hardpoints
- Hardpoints: 2
- Rockets: 8× air-to-ground rockets
- Bombs: 2× 100 kg (220 lb) bombs
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Links to Youtube & Others
The technology demonstrator L-39CW, a conventional airframe outfitted with the FJ44-4M engine and other retrofitted elements, performed its first flight from Vodochody airport on 14 September 2015. In September 2016, Aero Vodochody announced that it had completed the first phase of testing with the L-39CW, and was now ready to proceed with the development of the more comprehensive new-build L-39NG
Aero L-29 Delfín
NATO name: Maya)
2015: The first customer for the L-39NG Stage 1 was announced at the Paris Air Show in June 2015. LOM Praha, a Czech state-owned enterprise, has ordered the L-39NG for use at its Flight Training Center at Pardubice Airport.
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