Blériot 110
The Blériot 110 (or Bl 110) was produced in a single copy of Blériot Aéronautique in 1930 French endurance test aircraft was duly drawn up several motor - flight world records.
Specifications
The aircraft was designed and built to beat the existing world records in long-distance or endurance flight on behalf of the French Ministry of Aviation. It was designed by Filippo Zappata. It was a large, two-seat high-wing monoplane of 26.5 m span 14.57 m length and 4.9 m in height. The wing had 81 m2 surface. The Blériot 110 had a 600 PS ( 447 kW) Hispano -Suiza engine of the type 12L, which gave it a maximum speed of 220 km / hr. The service ceiling was 2,000 meters. For the planned long-haul flights a further four fuel tanks were installed in each wing and three in the fuselage, which summarized a total of 6000 liters. In order for a flight distance of 12,600 km should be possible. The curb weight of the machine was 2680 kg, fully loaded she weighed 8790 kg.
Services
Although the first flight on May 16, 1930 had to be stopped early due to problems with the fuel supply, but there were no damages on. After some repairs, the aircraft was registered in July 1930 with the identification F- ALCC transferred to Oran in Algeria to make there on the circuit of La Senia the record attempts. On 1 March 1932 the company brought the Bleriot- chief pilot Lucien Bossoutrot and his co-pilot Maurice Rossi to screw the world record in the round -haul non-stop flight to 8822 km. They measured simultaneously on a new flight duration world record when they total 75:23:07 hours non-stop in the air were from February 26 to March 1. A year later, on 23 to 26 March 1932 surpassed the two with the same machine the round -haul distance record one more time and flew in 76 hours and 34 minutes total of 10,601 kilometers non-stop. The machine had them baptized in January 1932 on the name of Joseph Le Brix, in honor of aviation pioneer, who had held the round course - long track record since June 1931, but then on September 12, 1931 during an attempted non-stop flights Paris - Tokyo in Ufa was crashed in the Urals and died.
On August 5, 1933 Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi with the Blériot 110 broke the record for long-distance point - to-point flights as they flew 9105 km from New York to Rayak in today's Lebanon.
Other record attempts in the following two years were not successful, and the machine was then scrapped.