Bucharest 1928

Hi Denes.

Here is some information:

Avro 567 Avenger II
- engine Napier Lion (650HP)
- total weight: 1638kg
- maximum speed: 290km/h
- climbing on 5000m: 12'

Nieuport
- engine Hispano-Suiza (600HP)
- total weight: 1600kg
- maximum speed: 265km/h
- climbing on 5000m: 11'

Fokker C.Ve (fighter version)
- Hispano-Suiza (600HP)
- total weight: 2177kg
- maximum speed: 256km/h
- climbing on 5000m: 22'

Dear Denes, if you send to me your e-mail address I can send to you scans of articles (with photos) about this contest from very old issues of Czechoslovak air magazines Letectvi 1928.

P.S. Now I prepare book about Czech planes Letov S-16 in foreign service - Latvia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Slovakia and German Luftwaffe (in this book will be small caption about contest in Bucharest also). I would like in future prepare book about air contests between Petite Entente and Poland. Please do you have anyone in Romania interest on cooperate on this possible project?

Marcel from Pilsen.
mkares@seznam.cz

Marcel,

Thank you for your kindness in offering to send me some material.
I will contact you directly.

However, currently I am really overwhelmed with various book projects; therefore, unfortunately in the near future I will not be able to co-operate in any new project.

Gen. Dénes

True - but not at all.
First - the 4th placed figter was PZL-1. Purchased - much more than two years later - would be PZL-11b. The same factory - not the same project - not the same aircraft. As Dénes knows, of course.
Second - PZL-11 was really classified as 4th, but - according to PZL - improperly. There was a few important errors made during the contest by Romianian organizers.

This post has been edited by woj on June 02, 2009 07:45 pm

Dear Mr. Kareš,

The Avro 567 Avenger II was probably the best of the three fighters. It had proved its worth a few months before the contest in Bucharest you mention, at the King's Cup air race in July 1928, as the fastest aircraft present. Despite this, it had against it the lack of British orders, partly due to the fact that it featured a wooden monocoque fuselage (reminiscent of contemporary French practice) instead of a metal structure (the construction method favoured by the RAF).
Cheers,

Ruy

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