Letov Š-50
Letov Š.50.1, prototype, Autumn 1938
| Letov Š-50 | ||
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| Role | General utility monoplane | |
| National origin | Czechoslovakia | |
| Manufacturer | Letov | |
| First flight | 1938 | |
| Number built | 1 | |
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The Letov Š-50 was a 1930s prototype Czechoslovakian military general purpose monoplane designed and built by Letov.[1]
Development
The Š-50 was an all-metal twin-engined low mid-wing monoplane that first flew in 1938.[1] Powered by two 420 hp (313 kW) Avia Rk.17 radial engines.[1] It had a fixed landing gear and twin fins and rudders. Following the German occupation development was stopped.[1]
Specifications
Data from Les Ailes, 1 December 1938[2]
General characteristics
- Crew: Three: observer/radio operator/bombaimer/nose gunner, pilot and dorsal gunner
- Length: 12.60 m (41 ft 4 in)
- Wingspan: 17.30 m (56 ft 9 in)
- Height: 3.80 m (12 ft 6 in)
- Wing area: 43 m2 (460 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 2,475 kg (5,456 lb)
- Gross weight: 4,093 kg (9,024 lb) in bomber configuration
- Fuel capacity: 920 l (200 imp gal; 240 US gal)
- Powerplant: 2 × Avia Rk.17 nine-cylinder radial piston engine, 310 kW (420 hp) each
- Propellers: 2-bladed Hamilton Standard metal, constant speed
Performance
- Maximum speed: 305 km/h (190 mph; 165 kn)
- Cruising speed: 270 km/h (168 mph; 146 kn) at 1,000 m (3,300 ft)
- Range: 1,200 km (746 mi; 648 nmi) at crise spee, bomber configuration
- Service ceiling: 7,200 m (23,622 ft) practical
- Time to altitude: 7.5 min to 3,000 m (9,800 ft)
- Take-off and landing distances: 140 m (460 ft)
Armament
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- Notes
- Bibliography
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). Orbis Publishing.
- Frachet, André (1 December 1938). "Le triplace d'observation Letov "S-20"". Les Ailes (911): 13.
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