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The Bloch MB.90 was the first all-metal French light aircraft. Only two aircraft were completed, making their first flights in 1932, though there were several variants. ==Design and development== Though they were not a commercial success, the Bloch MB.90 and its variants were notable as the first French all metal, meaning metal-framed, light aircraft.〔 The MB.90 was a single engine, braced high wing design; the wing was in two parts, each with two I-section spars, constant chord and rounded tips. Their structure was duralumin and their covering fabric.〔 The rectangular cross-section fuselage of the MB.90 was a tubular steel structure, fabric covered apart from the cabin which had plywood floor and sides. Sources disagree about the seating: a contemporary account〔 described it as side-by-side but a recent review as tandem.〔 Pairs of parallel bracing struts linked wing spars to the lower fuselage longerons. The fuselage narrowed rearwards to a conventional tail with a rectangular, round tipped tailplane mounted on the fuselage and a triangular fin with an unbalanced rudder which reached down to the keel.〔 Though the MB.90 was intended to be Renault powered,〔 it was initially flown with a de Havilland Gipsy III air-cooled four cylinder inverted engine. It had a fixed tailwheel undercarriage, with its main wheels on V-form split axles hinged on the lower fuselage longerons. At their outer ends, vertical shock absorbing struts reached up to the forward wing struts, strengthened at that point by two further struts to the lower and upper fuselage.〔 Two variants were displayed at the 1932 Paris Aero Show, both with Renault 4Pei four cylinder inline engines. These were designated the MB.91 and MB.92.〔 The former was shown incomplete〔〔 and was never flown but it introduced some new features which were used on two further variants; it had wings struts that diverged slightly from below, a rounded fin and faired-in split-axles.〔〔 Like the MB.90 it was a side-by side two-seater but the MB.92, otherwise similar, had tandem seats in a narrower fuselage.〔 Later a Pobjoy Niagara engine installation was offered for the MB.91.〔 With the same modifications to fin, undercarriage and struts, one of the MB.90s became the MB.93, powered by a de Havilland Gipsy Major I,〔 a close relative of the Gipsy III with slightly increased capacity.〔 In 1933 Bloch tested a four seat development, the Bloch MB.100, powered by a Hispano-Suiza 5Q 5-cylinder radial engine, essentially a licence-built Wright R-540 Whirlwind.〔〔 The MB.100 had two rows of side-by-side seating.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bloch MB.90」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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