Specifications (RU-38B)
Data from Schweizer Aircraft
General characteristics
- Crew: two in side-by-side seating or three, with two pilots in side-by-side seating and one sensor operator in the rear
- Length: 35.1 ft (10.7 m)
- Wingspan: 84.13 ft (25.65 m)
- Height:
- Wing area: 334.2 ft² (31.06 m²)
- Airfoil: Wortmann Fx 61-163
- Empty weight: 4265 lb (1934 kg)
- Loaded weight: 7200 lb (3265 kg)
- Useful load: 2935 lb (1331 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 7200 lb (3265 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × Rolls Royce Allison 250-B17F Constant Speed, Full Feather, unknown horsepower each
Performance
- Never exceed speed: 168 knots (312 km/h)
- Maximum speed: 168 knots (312 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 83 knots (mission speed) (155 km/h)
- Stall speed: 62 knots with divebrakes closed (116 km/h)
- Service ceiling: 30,000 ft (9230 m)
- Rate of climb: ft/min (m/s)
- Wing loading: 21.5 lb/ft² (105.1 kg/m²)
- Power/mass:
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