Max Holste MH.20

MH.20
Role Racing aircraft
National origin France
Manufacturer Avions Max Holste
Designer Max Holste
First flight 25 July 1941
Number built 1


The Max Holste MH.20 was a French single-engined racing aircraft built to compete in the 1939 Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe air race but not flying until 1941. A single example was built.

Design and development

In January 1939, the 26-year-old aircraft designer Max Holste began work at l'École de Réèducation Professionnelle, a Paris technical school for training the unemployed for work in the aviation industry, to design an all-metal single-engined racing aircraft.[1] The design, intended to compete in the 1939 Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe air race,[2][3] was a mid-winged monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage. An enclosed cockpit was provided for the aircraft's pilot, situated behind the wing.[4] The planned power-plant was a Béarn vertically-opposed air-cooled twelve-cylinder engine.[5]

The airframe was effectively complete by June 1939, with only the engine awaited, with it being hoped that the aircraft would make its maiden flight by August 1939.[1] This did not occur, however, and the aircraft did not fly until 25 July 1941,[6] powered by a Régnier 12HOO air-cooled inverted V12 engine.[7]

Specifications

Data from L'Avion "Max Holste 20" Coupe Deutsch[7]

General characteristics

Performance

References

  1. 1 2 Victor Les Ailes 22 June 1939, p. 7.
  2. ↑ "Behind the Lines: Max Holste 20". Flight. Vol. XLII no. 1750. 9 July 1942. p. 50.
  3. ↑ Gruberg Flight International 30 September 1943, p. 362.
  4. ↑ L'Aérophile August 1941, p. 147.
  5. ↑ Victor Les Ailes 22 June 1939, p. 8.
  6. 1 2 "Max-Holste MH-20". Aviafrance. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  7. 1 2 L'Aérophile August 1941, p. 148.
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