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Renault engine driving a metal propeller. Rounded fin, struts and faired undercarriage as MB.91. Seen at the 1932 Salon as a narrower, tandem seat machine.
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Renault engines. They failed to make the deadline and did not compete. The MB.92 remained on the French register until at least 1937.
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600:. Vol. XXV, no. 48. 30 November 1933. p. 1195.
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4-cylinder inverted inline engine, 89 kW (120 hp)
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air-cooled four cylinder inverted engine. It had a fixed
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and the fin, struts and undercarriage of the MB.91.
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666:Avions: Toute l'Aéronautique et son histoire
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308:A four-seat development of the MB.90
175:Though the MB.90 was intended to be
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592:"New Marcel Bloch touring machine"
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521:"Paris Aero Show - Marcel Bloch"
437:"A French All-Metal Light Plane"
172:which reached down to the keel.
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334:7 m (23 ft 0 in)
233:, essentially a licence-built
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395:6,000 m (20,000 ft)
1208:Aircraft first flown in 1932
613:Hispano Suiza in Aeronautics
152:. Pairs of parallel bracing
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352:620 kg (1,367 lb)
16:1930s French light aircraft
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563:Gunston, Bill (1989).
470:"Bloch aircraft 90-93"
360:de Havilland Gipsy III
320:Flight 20 October 1932
313:Specifications (MB 90)
267:de Havilland Gipsy III
235:Wright R-540 Whirlwind
189:shock absorbing struts
181:de Havilland Gipsy III
112:Design and development
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1139:Floatplanes
550:L'Aérophile
368:Performance
356:Powerplant:
229:5-cylinder
124:, constant
102:Bloch MB.90
1182:Categories
936:Transports
645:26 October
475:22 October
406:References
338:Wing area:
249:, held in
74:June 1932
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318:Data from
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