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9th branch Airmen Association of the Czech Republic

EXPO CZECHOSLOVAK AIR FORCE 1918 – 1939

 

PANEL IV

Letov s-4.6

Letov S-4.8.means the eight machine completed. This fighter plane type was turned out from the 1922 year in a small batch only.
Dimensions : Span 8.1 m, length 6.43 m, empty weight 673 kg
Powerplant : a 220 Hispano Suiza 8 Ba
Performance : Max speed 230 km.p.h., service ceiling 5500 m, climb to 5000 m in 21                         min 50 sec, range 500 km
Armament : two synchronized machine guns

   

 

An Aero A-12 bomber was the first compulsorilly fracture-tested type. It was popular among pilots thanks to its good handling and perfect stability. An camera- or radio equipment was in option.
Dimensions : Span 12.80 m, legth 8.34 m, empty weight 1080 kg.
Powerplant : a 240 Maybach Mb-IV engine
Performance : Maximum speed 200 km.p.h, service ceiling 7500 m, range 760 km
Armament : A fixed synchronized machine gun  and twin-one firing rearward for a crewman.

Aero A-12

A shot of an Aero A-12 biplane just catching fire on swinging. Not all the mishaps like this ended without crew- or ground staff casualties.

An Aero A-11 type came into existence by fitting an 240 Walter W-IV engine in the Aero 12 airframe. This aircraft was buing built till the 1930 year and used by the Czechoslovak Air Force in recce-, training- ground attack- and bomber versions.
Observer armed by one rearward-firing machine gun and pilot by a fixed synchronized one
Dimensions :Span 12.78 and length 8.20 m, empty weight of 974 kg
Performance : Maximum speed 215 km.p.h., service ceiling 7200 m, range 750 km

Avia  BH-11 měla za svého předchůdce dolnoplošník BH-9. Naše armáda je používala jako školní nebo kurýrní. Dřevěná kostra křídla částečně potažena překližkou, celkově plátnem. Trup měl překližkový potah, krycí plechy duralové. Rozpětí 9,72 m, délka 6,64 m, prázdná hm 351 kg, motor Walter NZ o 60 koních, max. rychlost 155 km/h, dostup 4500 m a dolet 600 km. BH-11 vyhrála slavný pohár Coppa d´Italia. Na snímku je verze kurýrní.

 

A Letov S-6 biplane had been mass-produced from the 1923 year.
Dimensions : 15.69 m, lenght 8.85 m
Wing area :  42.97 sqm
Powerplant : a 240 Maybach Mb-IV engine
Performance : Maximum speed 186 km.p.h., climb to 5000m 31 min 30 sec.
range 780 km

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BH-21 Span : 8.90 m, length 6.87 m, empty weight 764 kg

Powerplant : a 300 hp Hispano Suiza 8 Fb engine
Performance : Top speed 246 km.p.h., service ceiling 7500 m, range 550 km, climb to 5000 m in 13 min !! was remarkable – even by 9 min better compared with a BH 22 type.
BH-21s were used also by Belgian Air Force.

A BH-21 fighter plane  was a forerunner of a BH-22 military training fighter. Wings, tailplane, rudder and elevator wood-framed, covered by fabric. Steel-tube skeletal structure of fuselage covered by plywood, one of a fin fabric-covered.

 

BH-22

A BH-22 type was used as a military training fighter by the Czechoslovak Air Force.
Dimensions : span 8.90 m, length 6.87 m, empty weight 686 kg
Powerplant : a 180 h.p. Hispano Suiza 8 Aa          
Maximum speed : 216 km.p.h. climb to 5000 m in 22 min

Avia BA-22 specially built aircraft for performing low-level aerobatics flown by Siroky and Hubacek [Shirrokee, Hoobbahchek]. Its predecessor had been a special aeronautic version of BH-22 built  in the 1925 year. This BH-22 piloted by Staff Cpt Malkovsky [Malkovskee] triumped in the 1927 Zuerich International Flying Meeting. Malkovsky lost his life in June 1930 while performing aerobatics on this BH-22 type at the Carlsbad Air Show. His plane broke up and crashed.
Dimensions : 8.9 m, length 6.87 m, empty weight 686 kg
Powerplant : an 180 Hispano Suiza Aa engine
Performance : Climb up to 5 000 m in 22 min, service ceiling 6 200 m, range 500 km
Maximum speed 216 km.p.h. 

 

S-118

Letov S-118. An underpowered S-18 trainer equipped by a 60 Walter NZ engine had been a forerunner of a Letov S-118 type. That reason for the airframe was redesigned for fitting a by 25 hp strenghtened engine. During Cpt. Hamsik`s flying the S-118 to Finland ten machines of this type were firstly ordered by the Fins, but later they insisted on fitting a more strenghtened powerplant. Their demand resulted in S-218`s coming into existence. It was powered by a 120 Walter NZ engine and  turned out in Finland. One of them was seen aloft in Finland even in the 1959 year !!!
Fuselage as well as wings wood-framed
Dimensions: Span 10 m, length 6.90 m, empty weight  of 510 kg
Powerplant :  85 Walter NZ

 

S-218 with a starter motor in the foreground. S-218.25 means the 25 production one. This traning type was in production from 1926.
Wings wood-framed covered by fabric. Fuselage wood-framed and covered by plywood, in a batch built later it was of steel-tube skeletal structure covered by fabric.
Dimensions : Span 10 m, length 6.9 m , empty weight 510 kg
Powerplant : an 120 Walter NZ engine powering a wooden two-blade propeller
Performance: Maximum speed 150 km.p.h., climb to 1000 m in 5 min 30 sec, range 375 km, service ceiling 4900 m.

S-218

 

 

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