Blériot 125

The Blériot 125, also written Bl-125, was a highly unusual French airliner of the early 1930s. Shown at the 1930 Salon de l'Aéronautique in Paris, it carried twelve passengers in two separate fuselage pods that shared a tailplane and a high wing. The centre section of the wing joined the pods and carried a nacelle with an engine at each end and the crew compartment in the middle, two Hispano-Suiza 12Hbr engines of 410 kW each. When flown the following year it showed very poor flight characteristics, and although work to improve it continued into 1933 certification could not be achieved and the sole prototype was scrapped the following year. Its empty weight was 4,440 kg and its maximum speed 220 km/h.