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21-602: C50 may refer to: Vehicles [ edit ] Aircraft Beechcraft C-50 Twin Bonanza , an American civil utility aircraft Douglas C-50 , an American military transport Ships ARM  General Miguel Negrete  (C50) , an Admirable -class minesweeper of the Mexican Navy Surface vehicles Courage C50 , a French racing car Chevrolet C-50 , an American medium-duty truck Great Wall Voleex C50 ,

42-469: A Chinese compact car Honda C50 , a Japanese motorcycle introduced in 1966 JNR Class C50 , a Japanese steam locomotive type Suzuki Boulevard C50 , a Japanese motorcycle introduced in 2005 C50, an Italian bicycle produced by Colnago Series C-50, a model of the Chrysler Imperial car Other uses [ edit ] Breast cancer Caldwell 50 , an open cluster Giuoco Piano ,

63-610: A chess opening Recruiting of Indigenous Workers Convention, 1936 (shelved) of the International Labour Organization C-50, an AMD processor implementing the Bobcat microarchitecture C50, a Wordtank Japanese language electronic dictionary [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

84-493: A low-pressure area inside the engine nacelles, drawing in additional cooling air. The combination of the augmenter tubes and low propeller RPM and high engine RPM from the geared engines gives the Twin Bonanza a characteristic sound. "Junior JATO " rocket motors mounted to the tops of the engine nacelles were briefly offered as a factory option for the Twin Bonanza. Unlike most JATO systems intended to shorten takeoff distance,

105-445: A wooden two-bladed propeller. The standard cabin seats six people on bench seats, three in the front and three in the rear, and several other seating configurations were offered, including club seating and a three-person sideways-facing couch. Early models had a single right-hand door above the wing, accessed by trailing edge steps, while later aircraft added a rear airstair door with retracting steps. The 260 hp (190 kW) GO-435

126-475: Is a small twin-engined aircraft designed by Beechcraft as an executive transport for the business market. It was developed to fill a gap in Beechcraft's product line between the single-engined Model 35 Bonanza and the larger Model 18 . The Twin Bonanza is dissimilar to the Bonanza, being much larger and heavier and using more powerful engines, while in its earliest form having only half the passenger capacity of

147-580: The Model 18. The Twin Bonanza was first flown on November 15, 1949 after rapid development, begun only in April of that year. The aircraft was first designed to use Franklin engines with superchargers , but engine company owner Preston Tucker diverted all of its aviation resources to support his ill-fated Tucker 48 automobile project, and the aircraft was hastily modified to accept the Lycoming GO-435 . However,

168-478: The Twin Bonanza is a substantially larger and heavier aircraft that is mostly dissimilar to the single-engined Bonanza ; the only major shared parts are the front fuselage sides and windows, and on early models, the main cabin door. The Twin Bonanza fuselage is 12 in (30 cm) wider than that of the Bonanza. The United States Army adopted the Twin Bonanza as the L-23 Seminole utility transport, making it

189-408: The Twin Bonanza motors were nominally intended to keep the aircraft aloft during in-flight emergencies or forced landings . However, it is unclear whether this feature was ever installed on a production aircraft or used in any instance other than test flights. The Twin Bonanza had trouble competing with the similarly capable but substantially lighter Cessna 310 and Piper PA-23 , so Beechcraft used

210-538: The Twin Bonanza, eventually purchasing 216 of the 994 examples produced. It was also the first twin-engined aircraft in its class to be offered to the business market, but the Korean War was raging in the early 1950s and the US Army took almost the entire production for 1952 and 1953. The Beechcraft Model 65 Queen Air and Model 90 King Air are both direct descendants of the Model 50 Twin Bonanza. All three aircraft share

231-587: The basic single-engined Bonanza fuselage and many other Bonanza parts to create the Twin Bonanza's effective replacements: the Travel Air and the closely related Baron . The Twin Bonanza has been plagued by a reputation for slow cruise speed, poor fuel economy and high engine overhaul costs relative to other six to eight-seat light piston twins; this has historically kept resale values low, but many owners praise its reliability, good outwards visibility, stable flying qualities and generous interior space, particularly when

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252-453: The engine nacelles were not redesigned to fit the smaller Lycoming, creating unusually generous internal clearances that facilitate engine maintenance. The Model 50's type certificate was awarded in 1951, and production began the same year. The Twin Bonanza is one of only a few light twin-engined civil aircraft certificated in the utility category , and was the first production light aircraft to feature shoulder belts . Despite its name,

273-413: The engine nacelles, leaving the tires exposed to assist in the event of a belly landing and allowing the pilot some directional control using differential braking . The aircraft is equipped with a tailskid to mitigate damage from a badly executed or belly landing. The exposed main wheels and tailskid potentially allow a Twin Bonanza equipped with two-bladed props to be belly-landed with minimal damage if

294-468: The largest fixed-wing aircraft in its inventory at that time. According to Ralph Harmon, the airplane's designer, during an initial demonstration flight for the Army, Beechcraft test pilot Claude Palmer crashed while trying to land over a 50-foot (15 m) tree line with the aircraft full of soldiers and sandbags. Everyone on board walked away from the crash. The Army was impressed with the structural strength of

315-508: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C50&oldid=1136161310 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Beechcraft C-50 Twin Bonanza The Beechcraft Model 50 Twin Bonanza

336-475: The props are stopped horizontally. In many Twin Bonanzas, the copilot 's seat and rudder pedals are not on the right as is customary, but instead are positioned in the center of the front seat; the pilots pivot the single "throwover" control yoke to the center for the copilot to fly. Instead of conventional cowl flaps for low-speed engine cooling, the engines are equipped with exhaust augmenter tubes that create

357-564: The same basic wing design, as well as landing gear, flaps, instrument panels, fuel cells, and more. The Queen Air added a larger cabin to the design, while the later King Air added turbine power and pressurization . Twin Bonanza production ended in 1963 while the King Air was under development. The Twin Bonanza is an all-metal low-wing monoplane with a cantilever wing and retractable tricycle landing gear , initially powered by two wing-mounted geared Lycoming GO-435 piston engines, each with

378-546: The three-wide seats are not fully occupied. The Twin Bonanza is popularly known as the "Twin Bo" or the "T-Bone". In January 2012, the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority issued an airworthiness directive grounding all Bonanzas, Twin Bonanzas, and Debonairs equipped with a single pole-style yoke, having forward elevator control cables more than 15 years old, until they could be inspected. The AD

399-504: Was issued based on two aircraft found to have frayed cables, one of which suffered a cable failure just prior to takeoff, and resulting concerns about the age of the cables in fleet aircraft of this age. At the time of the grounding, some Bonanzas had reached 64 years in service. Aircraft with frayed cables were grounded until the cables were replaced, and those that passed inspection were required to have their cables replaced within 60 days regardless. The AD affected only Australian aircraft and

420-829: Was not adopted by the airworthiness authority responsible for the type certificate , the US Federal Aviation Administration . The FAA instead opted to issue a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) requesting that the elevator control cables be inspected during the annual inspection. The Beechcraft Twin Bonanza has been involved in the following notable accidents and incidents: Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57 General characteristics Performance Related development Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era [REDACTED] Media related to Beechcraft Twin Bonanza at Wikimedia Commons Lycoming GO-435 Too Many Requests If you report this error to

441-411: Was replaced by the 275 hp (205 kW) Lycoming GO-480 in 1954; this engine was subsequently upgraded with fuel injection and then superchargers, increasing power to 295 hp (220 kW) in 1956 and 340 hp (250 kW) in 1957. In addition to its seating configuration, the Twin Bonanza has several other unusual design features. The main landing gear wheels retract only partially into

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