Partenavia Tornado
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The Partenavia P.55 Tornado was a 1950s Italian high-performance competition and touring monoplane built by Partenavia. The Tornado was a small mid-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear. The aircraft was powered by a nose-mounted Lycoming O-320 piston engine.
The aircraft was commissioned to win the Tour of Sicily (it: Giro di Sicilia), and the Tornado won the race in 1956. Although the aircraft had won the race it was too specialised design to enter production and only one aircraft (registered I-REGJ) was built. I-REGJ was destroyed in a crash on 13 June 1958.
Specifications
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|ref=Jane's All the World' Aircraft 1956–57 {{Harvnb|Bridgman|1956|p=178}}
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|crew=2
|length m=6.00
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|aspect ratio=6.5
|wing area sqm=8.00
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|empty weight kg=480
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|gross weight kg=710
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|fuel capacity={{cvt|120|L|USgal impgal|0}}
|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Lycoming O-320
|eng1 type=4-cylinder air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine
|eng1 hp=150
|prop blade number=2
|prop name=fixed-pitch propeller
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|max speed kmh=347
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|cruise speed kmh=303
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|stall speed kmh=95
|range km=950
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|ceiling m=6000
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|time to altitude={{cvt|1000|m}} in 3 minutes
|wing loading kg/m2=88.8
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|power/mass={{cvt|0.21|kW/kg}}
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References
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{{reflist}}
- {{cite book| last=Bridgman |first=Leonard|title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1956–57|year=1956| publisher=The McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.|location=New York}}
- {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London }}
- {{cite book |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)|publisher= Orbis Publishing}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080209213356/http://aeroweb.lucia.it/en/history/pascale.htm]
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Category:1950s Italian sport aircraft