Blériot 118

The Blériot 118 was a French amphibian flying-boat fighter of the 1920s, designed by Léon Kirste and developed from his earlier Blériot 101 project to meet a French naval requirement for a two-seat fighter. It was powered by two Hispano-Suiza 8Ab piston engines and first flew on 23 January 1925. The Navy tested it in competition with other designs but rejected it as unstable in flight, so only one was built and it was never ordered into production. Its recorded specifications give a length of 8.81 metres, a wingspan of 12.90 metres, a gross weight of 1,740 kilograms and a maximum speed of 200 kilometres per hour, with a proposed armament of fixed forward-firing and ring-mounted 7.7 millimetre machine guns.