Blériot-SPAD S.60

The Blériot-SPAD S.60 was a French fighter aircraft developed in the late 1920s. It was a two-seat biplane fighter of all-wood construction with a canvas coating and a monocoque fuselage, with a backswept upper wing and an unswept lower wing. Three prototypes were ordered on 24 December 1925 and the first flew on 26 June 1926, but stability problems meant the S.60 was rejected for production in favour of the improved S.70. The specification lists a length of 6.88 m, a wingspan of 11.30 m, an empty weight of 1,224 kg, a gross weight of 1,803 kg and a maximum speed of 210 km/h from one 310 kW Gnome-Rhône Jupiter 9Ab nine-cylinder radial engine, with an armament of four 7.7 mm machine guns.