Avia BH-8

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name=BH-8


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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-8 was a prototype fighter aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1923. It was an unequal-span biplane developed on the basis of the ill-fated BH-6 design, in an attempt to address that type's problems. It shared the BH-6's unusual wing cellule design.

When test-flown in late 1923, it did indeed display better flying characteristics than its predecessor, but was overtaken in development by another variation on the same design, the BH-17.

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crew=one pilot
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length m=6.49
length ft=21
length in=3
span m=9.48
span ft=31
span in=1
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height m=2.77
height ft=9
height in=1
wing area sqm=22.1
wing area sqft=238
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empty weight kg=843
empty weight lb=1,858
gross weight kg=1,143
gross weight lb=2,520

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=222
max speed mph=138
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range km=450
range miles=280
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ceiling m=8,000
ceiling ft=26,200
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climb rate ms=5.7
climb rate ftmin=1,115
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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/bh8.html airwar.ru]

ee also

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BH-6 -
BH-17

similar aircraft=

sequence=
BH-5 -
BH-6 -
BH-7 -BH-8 -
BH-9 -
BH-10 -
BH-11

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