Blériot-SPAD S.29

The Blériot-SPAD S.29 was a sport aircraft produced in 1919 by Blériot-SPAD. It was a two-seat single-bay biplane with a slightly swept upper wing and a straight lower wing, the wings connected by a single strut on each side and ailerons fitted to the lower wing only. The fuselage was a circular section wooden monocoque structure with pilot and passenger seated in tandem in a single cockpit. A 60 kilowatt Le Rhône 9C rotary engine drove a two-bladed propeller fitted with a large hemispherical spinner, mounted on ball-bearings so that it did not rotate with the propeller, possibly a precaution against the spinner disintegrating through centrifugal force. Its empty weight was 848 kg and its maximum speed 166 km/h.