Summary
The CAB GY-30 Supercab was a two-seat light aircraft built in France in 1954, as a further development of the CAB Minicab. The design was performed by Yves Gardan, a onetime employee of French aeronautical company SIPA. Changes incorporated in the Supercab (from the Minicab) included a more powerful engine, greater wingspan, manually retractable undercarriage, and slotted flaps that replaced the split flaps of the Minicab.
| GY-30 Supercab | |
|---|---|
| |
| Role | Utility aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn (CAB) |
| Designer | Yves Gardan |
| First flight | 5 February 1954[1] |
| Number built | 7 |
| Developed into | SIPA 1000 |
Seven units were constructed by CAB before the rights to the design were sold to Gardan's former employer (SIPA), who developed the design into the SIPA 1000. However, due to a downturn in the light aircraft market at that time, only three of the SIPA variant were produced before production was halted.[2]
Specifications edit
Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 1 passenger
- Length: 5.50 m (18 ft 1 in)
- Wingspan: 8.20 m (26 ft 11 in)
- Height: 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
- Wing area: 10.30 m2 (110.9 sq ft)
- Aspect ratio: 6.5:1
- Empty weight: 400 kg (882 lb)
- Gross weight: 613 kg (1,351 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 70 L (15 imp gal; 18 US gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × Continental C90 air-cooled four-cylinder horizontally opposed piston engine, 67 kW (90 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch
Performance
- Maximum speed: 275 km/h (171 mph, 148 kn)
- Cruise speed: 235 km/h (146 mph, 127 kn)
- Service ceiling: 5,000 m (16,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 3.90 m/s (767 ft/min)
- Take-off run to 20 m (66 ft): 340 m (1,120 ft)
- Landing run from 20 m (66 ft): 300 m (980 ft)
Notes edit
References edit
- Bridgman, Leonard (1956). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57. New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company.
- de Narbonne, Roland (February 2014). "Février 1954, dans l'aéronautique française: Le CAB GY.30 "Supercab": Le petit bolide de Gardan". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 531. pp. 78–79.
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 123.
- Simpson, R. W. (1995). Airlife's General Aviation. Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing. p. 409.
- CAB Supercab on aviafrance.com
- Website of the Association des Proprietaires et Amateurs d'Avions Gardan[permanent dead link]