Avia BH-6

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name=BH-6


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type=Fighter
manufacturer=Avia
designer=Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn
first flight=1923
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number built=1
variants with their own articles=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. 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 as well, both implementations of this design were abandoned.

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crew=one pilot
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length m=6.47
length ft=21
length in=3
span m=9.98
span ft=32
span in=9
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height m=2.88
height ft=9
height in=5
wing area sqm=22.6
wing area sqft=243
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empty weight kg=878
empty weight lb=1,936
gross weight kg=1,180
gross weight lb=2,601

eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Skoda licence-built Hispano-Suiza 8Fb Vee-8
eng1 kw= 310
eng1 hp= 231
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max speed kmh=220
max speed mph=137
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endurance h= 2
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ceiling m=7,000
ceiling ft=23,000
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armament1=2 × fixed, forward-firing .303 Vickers machine guns
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References

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* Němeček, V. (1968). "Československá letadla". Praha: Naše Vojsko.
* [http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww1/bh6.html airwar.ru]

ee also

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BH-7 -
BH-8 -
BH-17

similar aircraft=

sequence=
BH-3 -
BH-4 -
BH-5 -BH-6 -
BH-7 -
BH-8 -
BH-9

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