Maroto Nube
| Maroto Nube | |
|---|---|
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| The Maroto Nube in 1925. | |
Role
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Biplane prototype |
National origin
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 Creeperopolis
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Manufacturer
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Maroto Aircraft Company |
Designer
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Mauricio Maroto Galván |
First flight
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1921 |
Retired
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1935 |
Status
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Lone prototype destroyed in 1935 |
Number built
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1 |
Developed into
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Maroto C-1 Maroto A-1 |
The Maroto Nube (literally "Cloud") was a Creeperian single-engine piston biplane prototype built by the Maroto Aircraft Company, the company's first ever product. The biplane was designed by Mauricio Maroto Galván, the company's founder, with the goal of being able to fly non-stop from San Salvador to Salvador.
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History
In 1921, the Maroto Aircraft Company was founded by Mauricio Maroto Galván. That year, Maroto Galván designed and built the Maroto Nube, a two-seat single-engine biplane prototype with the goal of being able to fly non-stop from San Salvador to Salvador. He hoped to impress Creeperian mail companies and convince them to invest in his company to build more aircraft. The aircraft first flew in 1921. Maroto Galván attempted his San Salvador–Salvador flight in February 1922, but the biplane was only able to fly as far as La'Libertad. Regardless, the flight did draw interest from some mail companies.
Only one Maroto Nube was ever built and it never entered into commercial mail service. Maroto Galván opted to keep the biplane for himself as his own personal aircraft. He continued to use the Maroto Nube until January 1935 when it was destroyed in San Salvador during the Creeperian Civil War after the San Salvador International Airport, where the aircraft was located, was bombed by the National Council for Peace and Order. Maroto Galván kept the aircraft's wreckage in storage, hoping to one day rebuilt the biplane, but it was lost in 1946 during the Siege of San Salvador, likely being scrapped or further destroyed during the siege to be unrecognizable.
Operators
Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 1 passenger
- Length: 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m)
- Wingspan: 55 ft 11 in (17.04 m)
- Height: 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m)
- Gross weight: 9,600 lb (4,354 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 660 US gal (550 imp gal; 2,500 l) fuel in two fuel tanks with 50 US gal (42 imp gal; 190 l) oil in a single tank
- Powerplant: 1 × Maroto Nube M V-12 water-cooled piston engine, 400 hp (300 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch wooden propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 120 mph (190 km/h, 100 kn)
- Cruise speed: 85 mph (137 km/h, 74 kn)
- Range: 550 mi (890 km, 480 nmi)
- Ferry range: 2,800 mi (4,500 km, 2,400 nmi)
- Endurance: 33 hours
- Service ceiling: 19,160 ft (5,840 m)
- Power/mass: 0.417 hp/lb (0.686 kW/kg)
