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1923 - 0509.PDF
AUGUST 23, 1923 TWO VIEWS OF THE AERO A.18 WITH 185 H.P. B.M.W. Ilia ENGINE --.: - - machine has a very good performance. In spite of its low power this where it was wanted for regular work on the air routes. Itsplace was taken by a Czech military type, designed by Smolik and built at the Military Aircraft Works at Prague. Thismachine, the Smolik type 6, was flown over to Gothenburg by Staff Captain Augustin Charvat in 7 hours flying time. TheS.6 is a two-seater fighter, with 260 h.p. Maybach engine. The engine is entirely covered in, the cowl even passing overthe top of the cylinders. Lamblm radiators are fitted between the undercarriage struts. The fuselage is of welded steel tube construction andcovered with fabric, except for the front portion, which is covered with aluminium. The machine is chiefly of intereston account of its wing structure, which is of the semi-cantilever type, the single pair of interplane struts being placed roughlyhalfway along the span, leaving very long overhangs. The lower plane is of considerably smaller chord than the top, andboth are of thick, high-lift section of the Joukovsky type. A side view of this machine was published in our issue ofAugust 2, 1923. The main dimensions, etc., of the Smolik 6 are : Length,o.a., 8.6 m. (28 ft. 3 ins.) ; span, 13 m. (42 ft. 9 ins.) ; weight empty, 1,100 kgs. (2,420 lbs.) ; useful load, 700 kgs. (1,540 lbs.); total loaded weight, 1,800 kgs. (3,960 lbs.);speed, 175 km. (108 m.p.h.) ; range, 1,200 km. (745 miles) ; ceiling, 6,500 m. (21,000 ft.). The Italian Section OWING to the non-appearance of the Gabardini machines,the sole Italian representative at I.L.U.G. was the Savoia S.16 bis M. Sociela Idrovolanti Alta Italia, Sesto Calende.—The S.16bis M flying boat exhibited by the " Savoia " firm is a develop- ment of the old S.16 exhibited at the Paris Show of 1919, andis thus not a new type except for certain alterations made to the original design. The machine is intended for bombingand reconnaissance, and as exhibited at Gothenburg had two large bombs slung under the lower planes. A machine gunneris installed in the front cockpit, the pilot and third member of the crew occupying a larger cockpit just ahead of the wings. The machine is of standard Savoia design and construction,and there is consequently little need of a detailed reference to its aerodynamic and structural features. The engine is aFiat A. 12 bis of 300 h.p., mounted high in the gap between the wings, and driving a pusher airscrew. SPAN . Z5'-O" LENGTH 2I'-O" AREA OF MAIN PLANES !7OS«j.Ft. AERO "A. 18" 185 r-P B.M.W. ENGINE O 2 A 6 8 S M. THE AERO TYPE A.18 : General arrangement drawings to scale. 509
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