P.53 Aeroscooter
Role Experimental hybrid monoplane
National origin Italy
Manufacturer Partenavia
Designer Mario de Bernardi
First flight 2 April 1951
Status On display
Number built 1
Variants de Bernardi M.d.B. 02 Aeroscooter

The Partenavia P.53 Aeroscooter was a 1950s Italian single-seat light aircraft fitted with a two-bladed rotor. It was designed by Luigi Pascale with Mario de Bernardi and built by Partenavia.[1]

Design and development

The Aeroscooter was low-wing monoplane powered by a 22 hp (16 kW) Ambrosini P-25 piston engine in the nose.[1] It had a fixed nose-wheel landing gear.[1] Above the enclosed single-seat cockpit a pylon was to have been fitted with an autorotating, unpowered two-bladed rotor which was to reduce the stalling speed and the rate-of-descent if the engine failed.[1]

Only one Aeroscooter was built and it first flew on 2 April 1951 without the rotor fitted.[1] The Aeroscooter survives and is on display at the Museo Storico Dell Aeronautico Militare Italiana. A two-seat derivative was produced by Mario de Baernardi as the de Bernardi M.d.B. 02 Aeroscooter.

Variants

Specifications (Ambrosini engine, no rotor)

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1957–58[3]

General characteristics

Performance

References

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Orbis 1985, p. 2680
  2. ^ Sport Aviation. June 1960. ((cite journal)): Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ Jane's 1957

Bibliography

  • The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). Orbis Publishing.
  • Bridgman, Leonard (1957). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1957–58. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. pp. 189–90.
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