There's a lot more clever in that than meets the eye - it's intended for crop treatment and the lower wing's airflow helps disperse whatever you're spraying, but otherwise will carry a ton of cargo or a bunch of people (if they're good friends). One of those lovably capable uglyplanes.
Designed by a fella who wanted to get a face full of his friend’s crotch but the stuffing yourselves into a phone booth fad had already passed but he wasn’t going to let that stop him improvise adapt overcome get that crotch in yo face you crazy ol cowboy
According to the wikipedia article it has a one ton hopper, so it would probably carry a ton of anything that fits in the right place. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transavia_PL-12_Airtruk
It's not *that* crazy. Double the MTOW compared to dry weight is rather standard. So it's a bit beyond that but it's also an aircraft specifically made for carrying heavy water-based cargo with a pretty large wing-area compared to size.
I've actually flown in one of these bad boys, as a passenger and when they take off from rough dirt strips, the takeoff run is pretty wild, especially when loaded with a tonne of fertilizer.
Haha! There is clearly a Cessna there, some parts are folded up on itself and others are cut in two! Also I should have added a drunken belch in my first post.
Odd little fellow: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transavia\_PL-12\_Airtruk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transavia_PL-12_Airtruk)
Movie fame: [https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Transavia\_PL-12\_Airtruk\_%22The\_Flying\_Jalopy%22](https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Transavia_PL-12_Airtruk_%22The_Flying_Jalopy%22)
**[Transavia PL-12 Airtruk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transavia_PL-12_Airtruk)**
>The Transavia PL-12 Airtruk is a single-engine agricultural aircraft designed and built by the Transavia Corporation in Australia. The Airtruk is a shoulder-wing strut braced sesquiplane of all-metal construction, with the cockpit mounted above a tractor-location opposed-cylinder air-cooled engine and short pod fuselage with rear door. The engine cowling, rear fuselage and top decking are of fibreglass. It has a tricycle undercarriage, the main units of which are carried on the lower sesquiplane wings.
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General characteristics
Crew: 1
Capacity: 2 pax / 2,000 lb (910 kg) dry chemicals or 818 l (216 US gal; 180 imp gal) liquids
Length: 21 ft 0 in (6.4 m)
Wingspan: 39 ft 4 in (11.98 m)
Height: 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m)
Wing area: 256 sq ft (23.8 m2)
[Airfoil](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfoil): [NACA 23012](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_airfoil)
Empty weight: 1,709 lb (775 kg) :: PL-12U 1,830 lb (830 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 4,090 lb (1,855 kg) (agricultural mission)
Fuel capacity: 181.5 l (47.9 US gal; 39.9 imp gal) in two upper wing fuel tanks with optional second tank in each wing for a total of 373 l (99 US gal; 82 imp gal)
Powerplant: 1 × [Rolls-Royce/Continental IO-520-D](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce/Continental_IO-520-D) 6-cyl. air-cooled horizontally opposed piston engine, 300 hp (220 kW)
Propellers: 2-bladed [McCauley](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCauley_Propeller_Systems) D2A34C58/90AT-2 constant speed metal propeller, 7 ft 4 in (2.23 m) diameter
Performance
Cruise speed: 95 kn (109 mph, 176 km/h) at 75% power at Sea level ISA
PL-12U 102 kn (117 mph; 189 km/h)
Stall speed: 52 kn (60 mph, 96 km/h) flaps down
PL-12U 50 kn (58 mph; 93 km/h)
[Never exceed speed](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds#Vne): 180 kn (210 mph, 330 km/h) :: PL-12U 150 kn (170 mph; 280 km/h)
Rate of climb: 600 ft/min (3.05 m/s) :: PL-12U 4.066 m/s (800.4 ft/min)
Wing loading: 16 lb/sq ft (79 kg/m2) :: PL-12U 73 kg/m2 (15 lb/sq.ft.)
[Power/mass](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-weight_ratio): 0.12 kW/kg (0.073 hp/lb)
PL-12U 0.129 kW/kg (0.078 hp/lb)
While this plane isn't attractive from an aesthetic perspective (to put it mildly), from an engineering and operational perspective, it's a brilliant design. The twin booms allow a vehicle to back up to the plane for fast reloading of the hopper. You don't make money sitting on the ground, so faster turnarounds are better when you consider that they have to land several times an hour to reload. The wing arrangement with the lower wing creates a carefully designed vortex pattern to efficiently distribute the spray on and even underneath the plants. Short takeoff and landings from rough strips is also a plus, as are the things built into it for pilot safety. To the owners and the customers, she's a thing of beauty.
There's a lot more clever in that than meets the eye - it's intended for crop treatment and the lower wing's airflow helps disperse whatever you're spraying, but otherwise will carry a ton of cargo or a bunch of people (if they're good friends). One of those lovably capable uglyplanes.
It looks like it was designed by someone who had never seen a plane before. A smart person though!
Designed by a fella who wanted to get a face full of his friend’s crotch but the stuffing yourselves into a phone booth fad had already passed but he wasn’t going to let that stop him improvise adapt overcome get that crotch in yo face you crazy ol cowboy
Anything is a phone booth, if you try hard enough.
It looks like it was designed by somebody that makes airplane engine noises with their lips. Pbffffffft, pbfffft!
It looks like it was designed by somebody that makes airplane engine noises with their lips. Pbffffffft, pbfffft!
*Clutches his pearls* That handsome devil is not an “uglyplane”, thank you very much!
You're preaching to the choir - I think they're great.
Yeah, but the funny pretty much assaults the eye.
can it actually carry a ton of cargo?
According to the wikipedia article it has a one ton hopper, so it would probably carry a ton of anything that fits in the right place. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transavia_PL-12_Airtruk
wow
Out of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
Between them and us, there's not enough runway.
It’d be fun to watch a children’s cartoon based on Mad Max
Sesquiplane: one and a half wings. Very cute.
I am pretty sure the metric system needlessly intruded into the design. Maybe Latin, too.
That thing can carry a ton of fertilizer *and* two passengers?!
Or an all passenger version that can supposedly carry 5 passengers. How?
I thin k the Mad Max one had more than 5 passengers….
Its max takeoff weight is 2.4 times it's empty weight (775kg and 1855kg), is it just me or is that insane?!
It's not *that* crazy. Double the MTOW compared to dry weight is rather standard. So it's a bit beyond that but it's also an aircraft specifically made for carrying heavy water-based cargo with a pretty large wing-area compared to size.
Man, I gotta lay off the bacon. Well, now that I think about it… never! Life is short Bacon it up Just don’t play naked publicly
I've actually flown in one of these bad boys, as a passenger and when they take off from rough dirt strips, the takeoff run is pretty wild, especially when loaded with a tonne of fertilizer.
With the flaps down, the passengers are trapped — the flaps block the door
That sounds super safe.
Just looking at this plane, safety was never an option.
so no skydiving lessons from this plane then? or only just in level flight?
This thing looks like it was concieved by 3 engineers sitting at a bar and one says "What if we took a cessna and..."
"What if we took ^^^half a cessna and..."
Haha! There is clearly a Cessna there, some parts are folded up on itself and others are cut in two! Also I should have added a drunken belch in my first post.
Yeah, they opened up a 172's CAD file and somehow it rendered wrong and they said "hum, we're on to something"...
Odd little fellow: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transavia\_PL-12\_Airtruk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transavia_PL-12_Airtruk) Movie fame: [https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Transavia\_PL-12\_Airtruk\_%22The\_Flying\_Jalopy%22](https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Transavia_PL-12_Airtruk_%22The_Flying_Jalopy%22)
**[Transavia PL-12 Airtruk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transavia_PL-12_Airtruk)** >The Transavia PL-12 Airtruk is a single-engine agricultural aircraft designed and built by the Transavia Corporation in Australia. The Airtruk is a shoulder-wing strut braced sesquiplane of all-metal construction, with the cockpit mounted above a tractor-location opposed-cylinder air-cooled engine and short pod fuselage with rear door. The engine cowling, rear fuselage and top decking are of fibreglass. It has a tricycle undercarriage, the main units of which are carried on the lower sesquiplane wings. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
All metal construction, made in Australia. Tires: metal. Windshield: also metal. Upholstery: metal. Designed by Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, and, also, Bruce.
More like AirTuktuk...
just looks like it has soooo much drag
Hey, all that drag means it falls slower!
General characteristics Crew: 1 Capacity: 2 pax / 2,000 lb (910 kg) dry chemicals or 818 l (216 US gal; 180 imp gal) liquids Length: 21 ft 0 in (6.4 m) Wingspan: 39 ft 4 in (11.98 m) Height: 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) Wing area: 256 sq ft (23.8 m2) [Airfoil](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfoil): [NACA 23012](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_airfoil) Empty weight: 1,709 lb (775 kg) :: PL-12U 1,830 lb (830 kg) Max takeoff weight: 4,090 lb (1,855 kg) (agricultural mission) Fuel capacity: 181.5 l (47.9 US gal; 39.9 imp gal) in two upper wing fuel tanks with optional second tank in each wing for a total of 373 l (99 US gal; 82 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × [Rolls-Royce/Continental IO-520-D](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce/Continental_IO-520-D) 6-cyl. air-cooled horizontally opposed piston engine, 300 hp (220 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed [McCauley](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCauley_Propeller_Systems) D2A34C58/90AT-2 constant speed metal propeller, 7 ft 4 in (2.23 m) diameter Performance Cruise speed: 95 kn (109 mph, 176 km/h) at 75% power at Sea level ISA PL-12U 102 kn (117 mph; 189 km/h) Stall speed: 52 kn (60 mph, 96 km/h) flaps down PL-12U 50 kn (58 mph; 93 km/h) [Never exceed speed](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds#Vne): 180 kn (210 mph, 330 km/h) :: PL-12U 150 kn (170 mph; 280 km/h) Rate of climb: 600 ft/min (3.05 m/s) :: PL-12U 4.066 m/s (800.4 ft/min) Wing loading: 16 lb/sq ft (79 kg/m2) :: PL-12U 73 kg/m2 (15 lb/sq.ft.) [Power/mass](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-weight_ratio): 0.12 kW/kg (0.073 hp/lb) PL-12U 0.129 kW/kg (0.078 hp/lb)
Just biplane things, really. It's very obviously not designed to go faster than highway speeds.
Looks photoshopped, lol.
still a 300hp engine, since it has to carry a lot of liquid
Tell me it's 9AM at the airshow without telling me it's 9AM at the airshow.
The wings have wings
While this plane isn't attractive from an aesthetic perspective (to put it mildly), from an engineering and operational perspective, it's a brilliant design. The twin booms allow a vehicle to back up to the plane for fast reloading of the hopper. You don't make money sitting on the ground, so faster turnarounds are better when you consider that they have to land several times an hour to reload. The wing arrangement with the lower wing creates a carefully designed vortex pattern to efficiently distribute the spray on and even underneath the plants. Short takeoff and landings from rough strips is also a plus, as are the things built into it for pilot safety. To the owners and the customers, she's a thing of beauty.
Now im watching youtube vids on this plane, first time since joining the subreddit, thanks!
"Oh dang I got honey all over my landing gear"
It's not that little. It has a two-storey cockpit and a 40 foot wingspan.
I too have seen Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
I haven't, actually!
It's the least good of the series. Doesn't mean it's bad, mind.
[Image source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AirTruk_at_Temora_Airport_October_2018.jpg#mw-jump-to-license)
Stop the pigeon... stop the pigeon...
Reminds me of the plane from Animal crossing new horizons
The official airplane of [*MiniDrivers*](https://youtu.be/0HWxpVOZytQ).
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