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The Blériot 195 was a French
monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
mail-carrier designed and built by Blériot Aéronautique
Blériot Aéronautique was a French aircraft manufacturer founded by Louis Blériot. It also made a few motorcycles between 1921 and 1922 and cyclecars during the 1920s.
Background
Louis Blériot was an engineer who had developed the first pra ...
, the one aircraft built was modified a number of times but failed to enter production.
Design and development
The Blériot 195 was a large low-wing cantilever monoplane designed for use on mail flights across the North Atlantic. It was powered by four Hispano-Suiza 6Mb inline piston engines, which were mounted in tandem pairs above the wing on a complex of struts. Designated the 195/2 landplane, it first flew on 9 March 1929. By the end of 1929, it had been re-designated the 195/3 and test flown with twin floats. It was re-designated again as the 195/4 in early 1930, when it was fitted with Gnome-Rhone Titan engines. It was put forward to meet a requirement for a seaplane to operate a mail service between Marseilles and Algiers, but in the end none of the designs submitted were accepted and the 195 was placed into storage. In April 1931 it was brought out of storage and modified to be a landplane and designated the 195/6; it was then tested by Air Union as a cargo aircraft. It did not gain a certificate of airworthiness as a cargo carrier and was withdrawn from use.Variants
;195/2 :Mail-carrier landplane with four 250hp Hispano-Suiza 6Mb piston engines. ;195/3 :The 195/2 modified as a floatplane. ;195/4 :The 195/3 re-engined with four 230hp Gnome-Rhône 5Kd Titan engines. ;195/6 :195/4 modified to a landplane.Specifications (195/2)
See also
References
;Notes ;Bibliography * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bleriot 195 1920s French mailplanes195
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Floatplanes
Four-engined push-pull aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1929