*******************FS98 Piaggio P136L AMI (land version)********************* 

FILE: P136LAMI.ZIP

VERSION.2 This is the version suited for Landing on runway.

Need not to be converted, just unzip to Flight simulator 98 \aircraft directory keeping its subdirectory structure.

Provided source textures for a Piaggio P136L five-seat amphibian flyng boat used by Italian Air Force at the end of fifties.

Author: Massimo Taccoli
E.mail mitaccol@tin.it

August 1999 
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The aircraft.
The P 136 light five-seat famphibian flying boat was flown for the first time on August 29,1948, and the first production aircraft were powered by 215 h.p. Franklin 6A8.215-B9F engines.
Eighteen of this were acquired by Italian Air Force followed by a further fifteen of the P 136-L version powered by Lycoming engines.
A total of 32 was delivered to non-military customers, including more than twenty to the USA where the amphibian was marketed as the Treker Gull, and most of these were of the P.136-L-1 (270 hp Lycoming GO-480B engines) or P.136-L-2 (340 hp Lycoming GSO-480 engines)versions.
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Specification:

Dimensions:		span		13.53 m  44ft 4 3/4 in
												lenght		10.80 m  35 ft 5 in.
													height	3.50 m 	  12 ft 7 in.
													wing area	25.15 m 270.2 sq.ft
Max speed:			 	291 km/h			183 mph at sea level 
		
Range:		1700 km				1081 mls.
Ceiling:			5500 m  18,000 ft
Weights:			empty equipped 	2025 kg 4,400 lb
Max take off	MTOW 		2720 kg	5,996 lb
		
Power plant:2 x 270 h.p. Lycoming GO-480-B six cylinder air-cooled engines.	
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Acknowledgement:
I wish to tank my Italian friend Massimo della Casa for his collaboration with photos and drawings of the true aircraft, which helped me very much to make this FS model.


You can find almost all my aircraft at my web site:
http://members.xoom.com/maxtac/maxtac.htm
mirror site: http://members.xoom.it/maxtac/maxtac.htm

Source AFX files can be downloaded at FREEFLIGHT DESIGN SHOP :
http://www.geocities.com/~freefltdesign/

If you have any comments please let me know, it will be greatly appreciated.

Internet Email: mitaccol@tin.it
Copyright:by Massimo Taccoli
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Legal stuff:

THIS AIRCRAFT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE AUTHOR, AND CANNOT BE RE-SOLD OR PACKAGED WITH ANY PRODUCT FOR SALE, WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. THIS IS FREEWARE.
YOU MAY UPLOAD THIS PLANE TO ANY OTHER SERVER THAT HAS A FREE DISTRIBUTION POLICY. THIS NOTICE CONSTITUTES THE AUTHORS PERMISSION TO DO THIS. THIS ENTIRE TEXT FILE MUST BE INCLUDED IN ANY DISTRIBUTION.
THE AUTHOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY LIABILITIES THAT YOU MIGHT INCUR AS A RESULT OF USING THIS PRODUCT.

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