Aero A.101
| Aero A.101 | |
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| Role | Light bomber Reconnaissance aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Aero Vodochody |
| Produced | 1930s |
| Number built | 50 |
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The Aero A.101 was a biplane light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft built in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s.
Design and development
It was an attempt to improve the Aero A.100 by enlarging it and fitting it with a more powerful engine. However, even with 33% more power, performance was actually inferior, and the Czechoslovak Air Force was not interested in the type. Production did result, however, when 50 were ordered by Spanish Republican forces for use in the Spanish Civil War. Some of these aircraft were captured by Nationalists while en route and used against their original buyers.[1]
Local demand eventually was forthcoming, and a re-engined version was produced as the Ab.101.
Operators
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Specifications (A.101)
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 12.09 m (39 ft 8 in)
- Wingspan: 16.99 m (55 ft 9 in)
- Height: 3.73 m (12 ft 3 in)
- Wing area: 58.7 m² (631 ft²)
- Empty weight: 2,578 kg (5,671 lb)
- Loaded weight: 4,345 kg (9,559 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Praga-built Isotta-Fraschini, 738 kW (990 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 265 km/h (143 knots, 169 mph)
- Range: 845 km (456 nm, 562 mi)
- Service ceiling: 5,500 m (21,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 2.5 m/s (490 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 74 kg/m² (15 lb/ft²)
- Power/mass: 170 W/kg (0.10 hp/lb)
Armament
- Guns:
- 2× forward-firing 7.92 mm (0.312 in) vz.30 (Česká zbrojovka Strakonice) machine guns
- 2× 7.92 mm vz.30 (Česká zbrojovka Strakonice) in ring mount for observer
- Bombs: 500 kg (1,100 lb)
See also
- Related development
- Related lists
- List of bomber aircraft
- List of Interwar military aircraft
- List of aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force
References
- Green, William (1967). War Planes of the Second World War: Volume Seven - Bombers and Reconnaissance Aircraft. London: Macdonald.
External links
Media related to Aero A.101 at Wikimedia Commons
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