Aero A.30
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The Aero A.30 was a biplane light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s. It originated as an attempt to improve the performance of the Aero A.11, but soon evolved into quite a different aircraft, larger and more powerful than its predecessor. The aircraft is readily distinguished from other related types by the difference in spans between its wings - the upper set being of much greater span than the lower.
Prototypes of the A.30 were retrospectively designated A.130, with the A.230 the main production version. The A.330 and A.430 featured different, more powerful engines, but the latter of these did not enter production, serving instead as the prototype for the Aero A.100.
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[edit] Specifications (A.230)
This aircraft article is missing some (or all) of its specifications. If you have a source, you can help Wikipedia by adding them.General characteristics
- Crew: two, pilot and observer
- Length: 10.00 m (32 ft 10 in)
- Wingspan: 15.30 m (50 ft 2 in)
- Height: ()
- Wing area: 46.2 m² (497 ft²)
- Empty weight: 1,420 kg (3,124 lb)
- Loaded weight: 2,375 kg (5,225 lb)
- Powerplant: 1× Lorraine-Dietrich , 336 kW (450 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 198 km/h (124 mph)
- Service ceiling: 5,800 m (19,024 ft)
- Rate of climb: 185 m/min (607 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 51 kg/m² (10.5 lb/ft²)
- Power/mass: 14 W/kg (0.09 hp/lb)
Armament
- 1 × forward firing .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun
- 2 × .303 (7.7 mm) Lewis machine gun in flexible mount for observer
- Up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) of bombs
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