VAK 191B construction Available to Purchase

THE AIRFRAME comprises fuselage forward section including ‘noseboom’. This section contains cockpit and forward electronics compartment. The fuselage centre section extends from the cabin end frame (canted bulkhead) to the canted bulkhead behind the rear lift engine. For production reasons it has been subdivided into three parts: forward fuselage centre section, central fuselage centre section, rear fuselage centre section. The main engine and both lift engines, among other things, are installed in the fuselage centre section which also contains nose and main landing gears and the fuel tank system. The fuselage rear section contains the electronics and APU compartments. Finally there are the wings with ailerons, landing flaps and outrigger landing gear, the horizontal tail (stabilator) and vertical tail.