Blériot 127

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name=127


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type=Bomber
manufacturer=Blériot
designer=Leon Kirste
first flight=7 May 1926
introduced=April 1929
retired=1934
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primary user="Armée de l'Air"
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number built=44
variants with their own articles=The Blériot 127 (or Bl-127) was a French bomber aircraft of the 1920s and 30s, 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.

Variants

* 127/1 - Prototype with Hispano-Suiza 12Gb piston engines
* 127/2 - Main production version, fitted with two Hispano-Suiza 12Hb piston engines.
* 127/3 - Single prototype of night bomber version.
* 127/4 - Single conversion of 127/2 with revised undercarriage.
* 137 - Two all-metal high-wing prototypes.

Operators

;FRA
*French Air Force

pecifications

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crew=four
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length m=14.68
length ft=48
length in=42
span m=23.20
span ft=76
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height m=3.41
height ft=11
height in=2
wing area sqm=88.0
wing area sqft=947
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empty weight kg=3,750
empty weight lb=8,267
gross weight kg=4,966
gross weight lb=10,948

eng1 number=2
eng1 type=Hispano-Suiza 12Hb
eng1 kw= 410
eng1 hp= 550
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max speed kmh=199
max speed mph=124
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range km=1,500
range miles=932
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ceiling m=7,450
ceiling ft=24,440
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armament1=2 &times forward trainable Lewis guns in nose
armament2=2 &times rearward trainable Lewis guns in each of two engine nacelles
armament3=1,000 kg (2,200 lb) of bombs carried in internal bay
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Blériot 117 - Blériot 137

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