Blériot 127 | |
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Blériot 127 | |
Role | Bomber |
Manufacturer | Blériot |
Designer | Leon Kirste |
First flight | 7 May 1926 |
Introduction | April 1929 |
Retired | 1934 |
Primary user | Armée de l'Air |
Number built | 44 |
The Blériot 127 (or Bl-127) was a French bomber aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s, developed from the Blériot 117 escort fighter. It was a large monoplane of conventional configuration that featured open gunner's positions in its nose and at the rear of its two underwing engine nacelles. The wing airfoil was of sufficient thickness that these latter positions could be accessed from the fuselage in flight.
Forty-two aircraft were operated by the Armée de l'Air from 1929 until 1934, by which time they were thoroughly obsolete.
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