C.R.A.P.S. - Avia

[alan2]

Another from the C.R.A.P.S museum - the deceptive Avia BH-5, In its day it was HOT !!

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The BH-5 was the first Czechoslovak plane to win an international contest and thus received the King of Belgium‘s Prize and the prize of the Belgian Tourist Aircraft Contest in

1923.

The pilot, Zdeněk Lhota, flew to Brussels and back with a layover in Mayence at an average speed of 138 km/h.In 1923 this was a remarkable performance, not only in the sport-

plane category.

In 1923, the type BH-5  also won the “D“ category in the President of the Republic’s Contest.

The Walter NZ-60, a radial five-cylinder engine, was installed in the BH-5 plane; it was the very first and a very successful engine designed by the Walter Company. Based on

the results of military tests of the BH-5s, the Ministry of Defence placed an order for a series of slightly improved BH-9,BH-10 and later also BH-11 Avias, which had been

successful in many national, as well as international contests and also in record and promotion flights.

The BH-5 Avia plane was marked L-BOSA; thanks to this mark, all the planes of this very successful series were nicknamed “boska“.

Model of Avia BH 5 for MFS..Czechoslovak Historic Flight ....www.historicflight.cz  http://www.historicflight.cz/virtual/bh5/index.asp?lng=en

The livery is interesting, because it has a civil registration L-BOSA and a military marking too. In this marking  the  Avia BH-5 was flying during big military exercise in 7th

September 1923. This livery is used on the flying  replica that was built.

Strange but true , its HOT !!....

Flying replica.....

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[tennyson]

That's great, Alan.

Maybe we should have an aviation history thread......hahaha

Good research, too.

Frank

[Dexter Dog]

..and great shots in there too!