Specialist machine for top dressing; reasons for its configuration based on operating conditions peculiar to aerial fertilizing of pastureland in New Zealand; in wing center section are accommodated fuel tank, spray tanks, and hopper installation; power provided by modified Continental horizontally opposed 6-cyl engine, driving McCauley "Met-L-Prop" fixed pitch propeller; span 42 ft; length 27 ft 6 in.; basic weight 1690 lb; agricultural overload 3840 lb.
Auster B.8 Agricola
Flight
Flight ; 69 , n 2451
1956
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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