Blériot 127

The Blériot 127, also written Bl-127, was a monoplane bomber developed and produced by the French manufacturer Blériot Aéronautique in the mid 1920s. It was derived from the Blériot 117 escort fighter and was large for its era, with a conventional layout, open gunner positions in the nose and at the rear of each of its two underwing engine nacelles, and a wing thick enough that the engines could be entered from the fuselage in flight. It was powered by two Hispano-Suiza 12Hb engines of up to 500 hp, and the cantilever wing used box spars and ribs with plywood leading-edge covering. Forty-two aircraft were operated by the Armée de l'Air from 1929 until 1934, by which time they were obsolete.