Top speed 220 km/h Length 6.47 m Manufacturer Avia | Wingspan 9.98 m First flight 1923 | |
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Designers Pavel Beneš, Miroslav Hajn |
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.
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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 as well, both implementations of this design were abandoned.
Specifications
General characteristics
Performance
Armament
References
Avia BH-6 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA