Specifications (Belfast C Mk.1)
Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1969–70
General characteristics
- Crew: Basic aircrew: 5 (two pilots, engineer, navigator and loadmaster)
- Capacity: 150 troops (250 with removable upper floor)
- Payload: 78,000 lb (35,381 kg)
- Length: 136 ft 5 in (41.58 m)
- Wingspan: 158 ft 9½ in (48.40 m)
- Height: 47 ft 0 in (14.33 m)
- Wing area: 2,466 ft² (229 m²)
- Airfoil: NACA 25017 at root, NACA 4413 (mod) at tip
- Aspect ratio: 10.22
- Empty weight: 127,000 lb (57,607 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 230,000 lb (104,328 kg)
- Powerplant: 4 × Rolls-Royce Tyne R.Ty.12, Mk. 101 turboprop, 5,730 ehp (4,270 kW) each
- Propellers: Hawker Siddeley Dynamics 4/7000/6 fully feathering
- Propeller diameter: 16 ft (4.88 m)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 352 mph (306 knots, 566 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 336 mph (292 knots, 541 km/h) at 24,000 ft (7,315 m) (econ cruise)
- Stall speed: 112 mph (97 knots, 180 km/h)
- Range: 5,300 miles (4,609 nmi, 8,528 km) with maximum fuel
- Service ceiling: 30,000 ft (9,144 m)
- Rate of climb: 1,060 ft/min (5.4 m/s
- Range with maximum payload: 1000 mi (870 nmi, 1,609 km))
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