| Super Transport | |
|---|---|
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| Bach Super Transport 3-view drawing from Aero Digest September 1928 | |
| Role | Airliner |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Bach Aircraft |
| Designer | L. Morton Bach |
| Status | Concept only |
| Developed from | Bach Air Yacht |
The Bach "Super Transport" was a design for a four-engined transport aircraft that was never built. [1]
The Bach Aircraft Company was founded by L. Morton Bach in 1927. [2] Following in the footsteps of Fokker with the Fokker F.VII Trimotor, and the metal Ford Trimotor, the Bach Air Yacht was developed as a commercial trimotor transport. [3] In 1928, Bach filed a patent for a four-engined design. The aircraft was similar to the trimotor as a metal-covered, strut-braced biplane, with conventional landing gear. It also featured semi-circular windows like the Stout 2-AT Pullman. The aircraft design featured an unusual modification of the trimotor arrangement with two nose-mounted engines stacked above each other with cockpit windows between them. The fuselage carried a double-decker seating arrangement. The Bach company was reorganized and dissolved during the Great Depression without any examples built. [1]
Data from Patent 79061, [1] Aerofiles Ba to Bl [4]
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