Avia BH-5 "boska" flies again

they are going to Brusel right now

BH-1 and BH-5 go to Brusel

For us Brits it’s easy to think that Shuttleworth is THE place for veteran aircraft. Of course, there’s stuff going on the world over. What an excellent thread.

Now that is absolutely beautiful!! The photography is stunning too.

Cheers,
Richard

Replica Avia BH 5 to fly to Brussels in re-enactment of 1923 air race

video

What a tottally amazing thread!!

G’ day all 😀 ,

Well me puter nearly crappped rightout downloading the thread 😮

BUT 😎

WOW, that really is a way cool amazing time trip!

That’s a very nice selection of picture’s people’s, New and old.

I’ve been a bit of an Avia fan for year’s, reading alot around there history.

Great stuff Evzen mate, they are MAGIC shot’s!!

It’s like turning the time clock back.

Sure you guy’s have not highjacked Tardis ? :confused: :dev2:

Walter NZ-60

Beautiful aircraft and very much work:)

Pane Rumcajs, to je moc pekne!

Very interesting and great news!

Thanks,

Stieglitz

Great catalogue there of Avia aircraft through the years. Thanks rumcajs 😎

As i suspected, BH-5 and BH-9 are very closely related to each other.

– Many thanks for the information (and excellent photos ) Rumcajs

Regards
Paul F

more photos of the BH-5 replica hier
http://avia.vyrobce.cz/doc/bh5.htm#drak

http://www.historicflight.cz/

BH-10

http://forum.valka.cz/download.php/id/1950

BH-11

http://techmag.valka.cz/obr_8/l_002_002/index.htm

BH-16
http://forum.valka.cz/download.php/id/1953

BH-19

and last before war Avia B-135 by František Novotný, 1938

That’s fabulous – thanks for letting us see those photos.

Could you tell us a little more about it if possible?

Roger Smith.

Rumcajs,

Was the original BH-5 closely related to the BH-9 as pictured here – they look almost identical?

These are photos I took (and posted on the forum) back in Oct 2005, following a visit to the Technical Museum in Prague.

Regards

Paul F

Avia BH-5 is one of the monoplane contruction line of famous Czech designers Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn – so BH sign. The first was BH-1 experimental from 1920, and more BH-3 – fighter for Czechoslovak Air Force from 1921, only one prototype BH-4 (evolved BH-3), BH-5 from 1923, BH-9 1923/24, BH-11 from 1924 in several versions (a little different from BH-9), BH-10 single seater trainer from 1924, and small sporty BH-12 and BH-16 avietka, and last monoplane figter BH-19 from 1924. All these monoplane Avia´s planes were called “boska” (plural bosky) due to civilian sign L-BOSA on BH-5 of famous Czech acrobatic pilot Dr.Zdenek Lhota (the first Czechoslovak civilian mark was L-Bxxx, since 1930 “OK-xxx”)
In 1923 Zdenek Lhota flew with new and the first BH-5 L-BOSA to the Belgium to test the new plane during internatinal race of Belgian King Award (he had to fly over Germany without authorization – a lot of problems with German bureaucracy – so very adventurous fligt) and he won main two awards.

In 1923 Avia sent BH-5 with Lhota to show army chiefs during a military exercise, they were satisfied and ordered the plane with some small adjustment as Avia BH-9. BH-10 and BH-11 are evolutions of BH-5/9

some photos

BH-1 exp
http://avia.vyrobce.cz/doc/2index.htm

and today ULL replica

BH-1 bis
http://forum.valka.cz/download.php/id/1949

BH-3 figter

BH-4

BH-5 and Dr. Zdenek Lhota
http://forum.valka.cz/download.php/id/1961
http://avia.vyrobce.cz/bh5pic/bh5_08.jpg
http://avia.vyrobce.cz/bh5pic/bh5_07.jpg
http://avia.vyrobce.cz/bh5pic/bh-5_21.jpg
http://avia.vyrobce.cz/bh5pic/bh-5_25.jpg
http://avia.vyrobce.cz/bh5pic/bh-5_22.jpg
http://avia.vyrobce.cz/bh5pic/bh-5_26.jpg

BH-7A (figter)

http://forum.valka.cz/download.php/id/1967

BH-7B race version (top speed about 300km/h in 1923!)

http://forum.valka.cz/download.php/id/1965

BH-9

http://forum.valka.cz/download.php/id/1964

BH-5 and BH-9?

Rumcajs,

Was the original BH-5 closely related to the BH-9 as pictured here – they look almost identical?

These are photos I took (and posted on the forum) back in Oct 2005, following a visit to the Technical Museum in Prague.

Regards

Paul F

Congratulations to all involved.

And just listen to the engine on that video clip – it sounds wonderful! 😀

That’s fabulous – thanks for letting us see those photos.

Could you tell us a little more about it if possible?

Roger Smith.