Avia BH-26

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name=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
variants with their own articles=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 tailshid 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 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.

pecifications

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crew=two, pilot and observer
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length m=8.85
length ft=29
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span m=10.80
span ft=35
span in=5
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height m=3.35
height ft=11
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wing area sqm=31.0
wing area sqft=333
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empty weight kg=1,030
empty weight lb=2,270
gross weight kg=1,630
gross weight lb=3,590

eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Walter-built Bristol Jupiter IV radial
eng1 kw= 336
eng1 hp= 450
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max speed kmh=242
max speed mph=150
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range km=530
range miles=330
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ceiling m=8,500
ceiling ft=27,900
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climb rate ms=6.3
climb rate ftmin=1,230
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armament1=2 × fixed, forward-firing .303 Vickers machine guns
armament2=2 × .303 Lewis guns in Skoda-built ring mount for observer
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References

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* Němeček, V. (1968). "Československá letadla". Praha: Naše Vojsko.

ee also

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BH-28

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BH-22 -
BH-23 -
BH-25 -BH-26 -
BH-27 -
BH-28 -
BH-29

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