title: Skandinaviska Aero BHT-1 Beauty
text: # Skandinaviska Aero BHT-1 Beauty
  
  The Skandinaviska Aero BHT-1 Beauty is a 1940s Swedish single-seat light monoplane designed by E. Bratt, K.E. Hilfing and B.Törnblom and built by Skandinaviska Aero of Stockholm.
  
  ## Design
  
  The BHT-1 is a wooden low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tailwheel landing gear. Powered by a 60 hp (45 kW) Walter Mikron 4 piston engine it has an enclosed single-seat cockpit. The wings include slotted flaps.
  
  ## Variants
  
  The BHT-2 was a proposed two-seat development. A prototype constant speed propeller was developed for the aircraft using differential between engine oil, and ram air pressure to control pitch.
  
  ## Specifications
  
  Data from Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II, Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1947
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: 1
  * Length: 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in)
  * Wingspan: 6.82 m (22 ft 5 in)
  * Height: 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in)
  * Wing area: 7 $m^2$ (75 sq ft)
  * Empty weight: 240 kg (529 lb)
  * Gross weight: 365 kg (805 lb) aerobatic
  * Max takeoff weight: 420 kg (926 lb) long-range
  * Fuel capacity: 88 L (23 US gal; 19 imp gal) in three tanks, plus 127 L (34 US gal; 28 imp gal) in "special reserve" fuel tank
  * Powerplant: 1 × Walter Mikron 4 4-cyl. inverted air-cooled in-line piston engine, 45 kW (60 hp)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed wooden fixed-pitch airscrew with provision for controllable-pitch airscrew
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 250 km/h (160 mph, 130 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 210 km/h (130 mph, 110 kn) *Landing speed with flaps:75 km/h (47 mph; 40 kn)
  * Never exceed speed: 580 km/h (360 mph, 310 kn) with controllable-pitch airscrew
  * Range: 1,700 km (1,100 mi, 920 nmi)
  * Ferry range: 3,000 km (1,900 mi, 1,600 nmi) with special reserve fuel tank
  * Service ceiling: 7,500 m (24,600 ft)
  * Rate of climb: 5.2 m/s (1,020 ft/min)
  * Wing loading: 52 $kg/m^2$ (11 lb/sq ft) aerobatic
  * Power/mass: 8.18 kg/kW (13.42 lb/hp)
  