Avia BH-7

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name=BH-7


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type=Fighter
manufacturer=Avia
designer=Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn
first flight=1923
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number built=2
variants with their own articles=The Avia BH-7 was a prototype fighter aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1923. It was a parasol-wing monoplane developed in tandem with and as an alternative to the BH-6, which shared its fuselage and tail design. Like the BH-6, the BH-7 was involved in a number of serious crashes during its test programme, which led to its abandonment as a fighter. Undaunted, however, Avia used the design as the basis for a racing aircraft, shortening the wingspan by 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) and fairing it directly into the top of the fuselage and dispensing with the cabane struts. This revised version was designated BH-7B and the fighter (retrospectively) as the BH-7A. When the design proved no more successful as a racer it was finally put to rest.

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crew=one pilot
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length m=6.84
length ft=22
length in=5
span m=10.40
span ft=34
span in=1
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height m=2.83
height ft=9
height in=3
wing area sqm=18.2
wing area sqft=195
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empty weight kg=855
empty weight lb=1,885
gross weight kg=1,150
gross weight lb=2,537

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=240
max speed mph=149
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range km=480
range miles=300
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ceiling m=8,000
ceiling ft=26,200
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climb rate ms=6.7
climb rate ftmin=1,312
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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/bh7.html airwar.ru]

ee also

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BH-6

similar aircraft=

sequence=
BH-4 -
BH-5 -
BH-6 -BH-7 -
BH-8 -
BH-9 -
BH-10

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