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.
== 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 also, both implementations of this design were abandoned.
== Specifications == General characteristics
Crew: one pilot Length: 6.47 m (21 ft 3 in) Wingspan: 9.98 m (32 ft 9 in) Height: 2.88 m (9 ft 5 in) Wing area: 22.6 m2 (243 sq ft) Empty weight: 878 kg (1,936 lb) Gross weight: 1,180 kg (2,601 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Skoda licence-built Hispano-Suiza 8Fb , 224 kW (300 hp) Performance
Maximum speed: 220 km/h (137 mph, 119 kn) Endurance: 2 hours Service ceiling: 7,000 m (23,000 ft) Armament
2 × fixed, forward-firing .303 Vickers machine guns
See also
Related development
BH-7 BH-8 BH-17
References
Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 86. World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing. pp. File 889 Sheet 86. Němeček, V. (1968). Československá letadla. Praha: Naše Vojsko. airwar.ru