Avia BH-26

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|type=Reconnaissance aircraft

|manufacturer=Avia

|designer=Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn

|first_flight=1927

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|number_built=ca. 8

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The Avia BH-26 was a two-seat armed reconnaissance aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1927. It was a single-bay unstaggered biplane with equal-span wings and a fixed tailskid undercarriage. Both upper and lower wings featured long-span ailerons, which were dynamically balanced by a small auxiliary airfoil mounted to the upper surface of the lower ailerons. Its design was typical of this type of aircraft built during World War I and the years following; pilot and observer sat in tandem open cockpits with the observer armed with a machine gun on a ring mount. As with many other Avia designs, the BH-26 originally had no fixed fin, only a rudder, but this was changed in service.

Specifications

File:Avia_BH-26_3-view_L'Aéronautique_January,1927.png

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|ref=Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928{{cite book |title=Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928 |editor1-last=Grey |editor1-first=C.G. |year=1928 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd |location=London |page=76c}}

|prime units?=met

|crew=2 - pilot and observer

|length m=8.93

|span m=10.8

|height m=3.35

|wing area sqm=31

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|empty weight kg=1080

|gross weight kg=1760

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|fuel capacity={{cvt|380|kg}} fuel and oil

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|eng1 number=1

|eng1 name=Walter-built Bristol Jupiter

|eng1 type=9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine

|eng1 hp=450

|prop blade number=2

|prop name=fixed-pitch propeller

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|max speed kmh=250

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|stall speed kmh=90

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|range km=530

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|ceiling m=7500

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|climb rate ms=6.3

|time to altitude={{cvt|5000|m}} in 13 minutes 20 seconds; {{cvt|6000|m}} in 17 minutes 30 seconds; {{cvt|7000|m}} in 27 minutes

|wing loading kg/m2=55.6

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|power/mass={{cvt|0.125|hp/lb|kW/kg|order=flip}}

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|guns= 2x fixed, forward-firing, synchronised {{cvt|7.7|mm|3}} Vickers machine-guns in the forward fuselage upper decking and 2x {{cvt|7.7|mm|3}} Lewis guns on a flexible mount in the rear cockpit.

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Avia BH-26

Specifications

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