Aero A.42
The Aero A.42 is a bomber three-seater monoplane single-engined aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1929.
This apparatus with the modern aspect, monoplane with high wing cantilever and fixed train, was rejected by the soldiers, who reproached him a take-off run and with the landing too much long and a very narrow flight compartment. The Czechoslovakian army proposed to the manufacturer a certain number of modifications, whose replacement of the wing out of wooden by an aerofoil out of metal, but Aero preferred to give up the development of the machine.
However the September 20th, 1930 one of the two prototypes increased to 253,428 km/h the international records speed in closed circuit on 1.000 km with load of 500 and 1.000 kg. The second prototype remained in service in Czechoslovakian aviation until 1938 then was briefly used by Slovak aviation. It had probably passed to the rammer in 1940.
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