Brochet MB.70

MB.70 Series
The Brochet MB.76 at Chavenay airfield near Paris in June 1967
General information
Type	Sports plane
Manufacturer	Brochet
Designer	Maurice Brochet
Number built	8
History
First flight	28 January 1950

The Brochet MB.70 was a two-seat light aircraft developed in France in the early 1950s for recreational flying and amateur construction.

Design and development

It was a high-wing braced monoplane of conventional configuration that seated the pilot and passenger in tandem within a fully enclosed cabin. It was fitted with fixed tailwheel undercarriage layout and was of all-wooden construction. Progress was hastened by the publication of a Service de l'Aviation Légère et Sportive requirement for a new light aircraft for French aeroclubs, and a series of development machines were built with a variety of different engines, eventually leading to the definitive Brochet MB.80.

Variants

• MB.70 - prototype powered by Salmson 9Adb radial (1 built)
• MB.71 - version with Minié 4.DC.32 engine (1 built)
• MB.72 - version with Continental A65 horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine (5 built)
• MB.73 - version with Continental A65-85 horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine (1 converted from the MB.70)
• MB.76 - version with Continental C90-14F horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine (1 built)

Units using this aircraft

Private and club pilots

Specifications (MB.72)

Data from The Aircraft of the World

General characteristics

• Crew: One pilot
• Capacity: 1 passenger
• Length: 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)
• Wingspan: 10.52 m (34 ft 6 in)
• Height: 2.49 m (8 ft 2 in)
• Wing area: 14.0 m² (151 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 372 kg (820 lb)
• Gross weight: 570 kg (1,257 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Continental A65 , 48 kW (65 hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 163 km/h (101 mph, 88 kn)
• Cruise speed: 140 km/h (90 mph, 78 kn)
• Rate of climb: 4.0 m/s (780 ft/min)

References

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Notes

Bibliography

• Green, William; Pollinger, Gerald (1965). The Aircraft of the World (3rd ed.). London: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers).
• de Narbonne, Roland (January 2010). "Janvier 1950, dans l'aéronautique française: Et le gagnant est...un planeur". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 482. pp. 75–79.
• Simpson, Rod (2005). The General Aviation Handbook. Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-222-5.
• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 215.
• World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing. pp. File 890 Sheet 99.