Avia BH-6
{{Short description|Prototype Czechoslovak fighter aircraft}}
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|name=BH-6
|image=Avia BH-6 1-72.jpg
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|type=Fighter
|manufacturer=Avia
|designer=Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn
|first_flight=1923
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|retired=
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|number_built=1
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The Avia BH-6 was a prototype fighter aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1923. It was a single-bay biplane of unusual configuration, developed in tandem with the BH-7, which shared its fuselage and tail design.
Development
The BH-6 had wings of unequal span, but unusually, the top wing was the shorter of the two, and while it was braced to the bottom wing with a single I-strut on either side, these sloped inwards from bottom to top. Finally, the top wing was attached to the fuselage not by a set of cabane struts, but by a single large pylon.
The BH-6 crashed early in its test programme, and when the related BH-7 did also, both implementations of this design were abandoned.
Specifications
{{Aircraft specs
|prime units? = met
|crew=one pilot
|length m=6.47
|length ft=21
|length in=3
|span m=9.98
|span ft=32
|span in=9
|height m=2.88
|height ft=9
|height in=5
|wing area sqm=22.6
|wing area sqft=243
|empty weight kg=878
|empty weight lb=1,936
|gross weight kg=1,180
|gross weight lb=2,601
|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Skoda licence-built Hispano-Suiza 8Fb
|eng1 kw=224
|eng1 hp=300
|max speed kmh=220
|max speed mph=137
|endurance=2 hours|ceiling m=7,000
|ceiling ft=23,000
|armament = *2 × fixed, forward-firing .303 Vickers machine guns
}}
See also
References
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- {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=86 }}
- {{cite book |title=World Aircraft Information Files |publisher=Bright Star Publishing|location=London |pages=File 889 Sheet 86 }}
- Němeček, V. (1968). Československá letadla. Praha: Naše Vojsko.
- [http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww1/bh6.html airwar.ru]
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Category:1920s Czechoslovak fighter aircraft