Valmet L-80 Turbo-Vinha
| L-80 | |
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| Role | Trainer |
| Manufacturer | Valmet |
| Introduction | 1983 |
| Retired | 1990 |
| Status | cancelled |
| Number built | one L-80, two L-90 prototypes |
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Valmet L-80 TP Turbo-Vinha was a prototype for a new Finnish turboprop basic trainer aircraft. The aircraft, which carried the designation OH-VBB was destroyed in a crash in 1985, killing the test pilot Paavo Janhunen. The aircraft was a further development of the Valmet L-70 Vinka and would eventually lead to the Valmet L-90 Redigo.
The Allison turboprop engine was used in the second plane, the L-90 TP Turbo-Vinha (OH-VTM). It was destroyed during an aerieal display in Belgium The third plane of the series (OH-VTP) got the new name Redigo or RediGo (used in sales brochures).
Specifications (L-80)
Data from Valmet's Turbotrainer[1]
General characteristics
- Crew: Two, student and instructor
- Capacity: up to two additional passengers[2]
- Length: 7.90 m (25 ft 11 in)
- Wingspan: 10.15 m (33 ft 3½ in)
- Height: 2.85 m (9 ft 4½ in)
- Wing area: 14.75 m² (158.8 ft²)
- Empty weight: 890 kg (1,962 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 1,900 kg (4,189 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Allison 250-B17D turboprop, 286 kW (360 shp) (flat rated)
Performance
- Never exceed speed: 465 km/h (251 knots, 289 mph)
- Maximum speed: 340 km/h (183 knots, 211 mph) at 3,000 m (9,840 ft)
- Range: 1,300+ km (703 NM, 808 mi)
- Rate of climb: 10 m/s (1,968 ft/min)
- Wing loading: kg/m² (lb/ft²)
- Power/mass: kW/kg (hp/lb)
Armament
- 1 × bomb
See also
- Related development
References
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- Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. "Valmet's Turbotrainer...A Northern Newcomer with Tradition". Air International. March 1986, Vol 30 No 3. pp. 111–117. ISSN 0306-5634.
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